Zhao Wei is a popular Chinese actress, singer, film director and producer. Born on March 12, 1976, she made her acting debut in the 1996 film “Penitentiary Angel” and then gained overnight fame for her role in the 1998 hit television drama “My Fair Princess.” The series made her the youngest actress in 1999 to win a Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress, the first of many acting awards during her celebrated career. Zhao Wei is primarily known for her film roles, including the hits “Shaolin Soccer” (2001), “Red Cliff” (2008-2009), “Painted Skin” (2008), “Painted Skin: The Resurrection” (2012), “Dearest” (2014)&nbsp;and “Lost in Hong Kong” (2015). She released her first album in 1999 and has put out a total of seven music albums. She also made her directorial debut with the 2013 film “So Young,” which went on to become one of the highest-grossing films in China and brought her several Best Director awards. Zhao Wei served on the main jury for the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. She married Chinese businessman Huang You Long in 2008.

Zhao Wei

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The year is 1760. Princesses Xiao Yan Zi (Zhao Wei) and Xia Zi Wei (Ruby Lin) are adored by Emperor Qian Long.

But things are about to change for the young girls. The Empress dislikes both of them, and plots to turn the powerful Dowager Empress against them. Both of the princesses are from poor backgrounds, and she instantly takes a dislike to them.

Meanwhile, the princesses meet the lover of an Uyghur chieftain at a restaurant. He explains the sad tale of his love for the Uyghur chieftain’s daughter – explaining that she has been sent to become the concubine of Emperor Qian Long.

The young women resolve to help the chieftain’s daughter and succeed in sneaking her out of the palace.

However, when the Emperor learns what has happened, he sentences them both to death in a fit of fury.

With help from their friends, they escape the palace. But the scheming Empress wants rid of them forever, and sends a band of deadly assassins after them!

Can the princesses escape the deadly threat – and might they one day return to the Imperial Palace?

“My Fair Princess Season 2” is a 1999 Chinese period drama that was directed by Sun Shu Pei and Li Ping.

My Fair Princess Season 2

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In 18th-century China, the Qing Dynasty’s Emperor Qian Long rules the land. The Emperor is unaware that he has a 17-year-old daughter, named Xia Zi Wei (Ruby Lin), who was born after he had a brief fling with her mother.

Xia Zi Wei is determined to meet her father and travels from her provincial home to the Forbidden City in an effort to seek him out.

However, gaining an audience with the Emperor proves far more difficult than she expected. But Xia Zi Wei refuses to give up hope and remains in the capital – where she one day meets Xiao Yan Zi (Zhao Wei), a streetwise orphan girl.


The girls become firm friends and hatch a plan to meet the Emperor during a hunting trip.

However, their plan is thwarted when Xiao Yan Zi is injured by an arrow fired by the Emperor’s son. The Emperor finds Xiao Yan Zi, and mistakes her for his own daughter, taking her to the Imperial Court.

Will the truth out? And will Xia Zi Wei ever be able to take her rightful place in the palace?

“My Fair Princess” is a 1998 Chinese period drama that was directed by Sun Shu Pei.

My Fair Princess

Huayi Brothers

A fox spirit will do anything in her quest to become human.

Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun) is a fox demon who has been imprisoned in ice for centuries. She is freed by Que’er (Yang Mi), quirky bird demon. Xiao Wei embarks on a quest to seduce men so that she can consume their hearts and finally become human.

When Xiao Wei crosses paths with the disfigured Princess Jing (Zhao Wei), who wears a gold mask to cover her scarred face, she ends up accompanying the princess to the White City. There, Xiao Wei targets as her next victim General Huo Xin (Chen Kun), who is Princess Jing’s former bodyguard. Will Xiao Wei succeed in her evil plan or can Huo Xin save the woman he truly loves?

“Painted Skin: The Resurrection” is a 2012 Chinese film directed by Wu Er Shan. It is a follow-up to the 2008 “Painted Skin” and reunites most of the original cast.

Painted Skin: The Resurrection

Princess Jing

Love comes in many forms, it shapes our lives in ways we can’t even begin to comprehend. Never was this truth more evident than when eight lonely souls, in search of the one who can make their life complete, find themselves entangled in an ever-evolving story of life and love.

Devoted to her family in every way, Yi Jia (Ivy Chen) is the ideal daughter. A member of her college cycling team and frequent helper at her family’s restaurant, she is everything her parents could ever hope for in a daughter. Unfortunately, she has no real personality of her own. Unexceptional in every way, Yi Jia blends in wherever she goes, an overlooked nobody who is often outshone by her flamboyant best friend, Xiao Min (Amber Kuo). Talented, confident, and assertive, Xiao Min is the exact opposite of Yi Jia, but that has never gotten in the way of their friendship. Even when Xiao Min starts dating the aspiring film director, Ah Kai (Eddie Peng), Yi Jia is always there to support her friend and is happy to count Ah Kai as a friend. But when Yi Jia finds herself caught up in an ill-fated love affair, this intrepid trio’s friendship is put to the test.

Meanwhile, successful entrepreneur and flippant playboy, Mark (Mark Chao) is in the process of moving to Beijing. As his feisty real estate agent, Xiao Ye (Zhao Wei), shows him some of the city’s most lavish homes, he finds himself strangely drawn to her. A single mother who takes no sass, Xiao Ye is nothing like the women he’s been chasing all these years. As he spends more time with her, he begins to wonder if he might have been looking for love in all the wrong places.

At the same time, wealthy businessman, Chao Ping (Doze Niu) and his materialistic mistress, Rou Yi (Shu Qi), are going through a rough patch in their relationship. After one particularly ugly fight, Rou Yi finds herself being rescued from Chao Ping’s rage by Xiao Kuan (Ethan Juan), an innocent soul with a friendly, boy-next-door personality. Offering her a place to escape her hectic life in the limelight, Rou Yi accepts Xiao Kuan’s hospitality and eventually his friendship. During their time together, Rou Yi has time to contemplate her life and begins to wonder if it isn’t time to make some serious life changes.

The story of eight souls interwoven by fate, “Love” is a 2012 Taiwanese-Chinese romance film directed by Doze Niu.

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