Zhou Dong Yu is an award-winning Chinese actress. Born on January 31, 1992, she had no prior acting experience before she was chosen in 2010 by the famed director Zhang Yimou to star in his film “The Love of the Hawthorn Tree,” for which she won numerous acting awards. She is known as one of the “Four Dan Actresses,” one of the most bankable actresses from Mainland China in the early 2000s. Some of her most memorable roles include the films “The Palace” (2013), “My Old Classmate” (2014) and “Soul Mate” (2016) and the television dramas “Sparrow” (2016) and “Love & Life & Lie” (2017).
