
Actor
Jiang Wenli
Born June 20, 1969 in Bengbu, Anhui Province, China30 films
Jiang Wenli was born in a highbrow family. Her father was a railroad engineer, her mother was a railroad telephone operator, and her parents love literature and art. Since Wenli was a little girl, her father taught her to read famous book and painting, and listen to famous songs. When she was 5 years old, she dreamt about being a gymnast, so her mother sent her to study dance and gymnastics. However, since her stature didn’t fit the standard of a gymnast, the coach of Bengbu city gymnastic team refused to regard her as a formal team member. After that, she spent five years to practice as an informal team member of the gymnastic team. At the age of 17, she took the college entrance examination and regard going to normal university as her goal. However, she got accepted by a water conservation secondary school because her score was five points lower than the acceptance line of the normal university. In 1986, she graduated from the secondary school and starts to work in Bengbu City Water Company. Her job was to design ways of water transportation for residents. Nevertheless, she was not satisfied with her current life and decided to go to Beijing in 1988 and start her new life.
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Without any preparation, she got accepted by Beijing Film Academy. After become a student of film academy, there were countless film companies inviting her to play role in their films. Her first role was a nursery school teacher in a TV series named The Lily on Cliff, and this TV series won the Feitian TV Awards of that year. Also, she was a candidate for Best Supporting Actress Reward. After this, she played Shuixiu in a movie named Li Li Yuan Shang Cao, and this film won the award from French film festival. The last film of her college period was The Story of Xing Hua, and she played the girl named Xing Hua. After graduate from college, she went to America for a long time and then returned to China to continue her career.
After came back to China, she played a role in Miaomiao Liu’s movie *Who you think you are. In 1993, she played an important role which is Chengyi’s mother in movie Farewell My Concubine,and this movie won the Best Movie Award at French Cannes Film Festival of that year. In 1999, she played a 20 episode TV series named Lead by the Hand, and this helped her won the highest honor of Chinese TV industry, Best actress from both Golden Eagle Awards and Feitian TV Awards. In 2000, based on the outstanding performance in film Team Spirit,she won the best actress from Huabiao Film Awards. In 2001, movie The treatment made her career even more successful. In 2011, the TV series When Happiness Knocks became a huge success in her career. This TV series is broadcasting on CCTV-1, which is the most important channel in China. Also, the average audience rating was 3%, which is on the top of other TV series in the whole country.
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The best way into Jiang Wenli's work
First watchFarewell My Concubine19937.9as Douzi's MotherIn an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.View filmEssential films
Ranked by acclaim and reachFilmography
30 films as actor- TBAThe Diary
- 2023Hidden StrikeProfessor Cheng
- 2023Magic 7Ma Zheng
- 2022Wandering Days
- 2019No. 7 Cherry LaneThe Woman in Yellow (voice)
- 2019Midnight DinerMs. Jin
- 2019The Secret of ChinaSong Qingling
- 2019Live to Love
- 2018Nice to Meet YouDorm Keeper Wang
- 2017Our Time Will ComeMrs. Shen
- 2016DistanceXie Hong
- 2015The Final MasterMaster Zou
- 2015The Beautiful Kokonor Lake
- 2015The Left EarXu Yi's mother
- 2014Love On The Cloudlandlord's sister
- 2011Love for LifeCook
- 2010Major Secretary
- 2008Lost IndulgenceLi
- 2007And the Spring ComesWang Cailing
- 2006The Winter of Three Persons
- 2006All the Invisible ChildrenSong Song's Mother (segment "Song Song and Little Cat")
- 2004My Bittersweet Taiwan
- 2001The Gua Sha TreatmentJian Ning
- 2000Female Coach & Male Player
- 1998Mr. Zhao
- 1997Cat's EyeMiss Ou
- 1994The Story of Xinghua
- 1993Farewell My ConcubineDouzi's Mother
- 1992Family Portrait
- 1991A Mysterious Couple


