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Ge You Ge You Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Ge You (April 19, 1957 -), born in Beijing, native of Raoyang, Hebei Province, is a famous Chinese actor and a national first-class actor. His acting career spans many fields such as TV series and movies. He is famous for his realistic, humorous and life-oriented performance style, and has high popularity and influence in the Chinese film industry.

Ge Minhui Ge Minhui Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Eric Kot Man Fai (English: Eric Kot Man Fai, December 30, 1966 -) is a Hong Kong Radio program host, actor and director. He is best known as the "Soft Master" as a member of the popular group Soft and Hard Masters.

D Dong Yachun Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Dong Yachun (March 1960-), director and photographer from Mainland China. He won the Best Cinematography Award at the 22nd China Golden Rooster Awards for the movie "Out of the Amazon" and the Best Cinematography Award at the 23rd China Golden Rooster Awards for the movie "Uncanny".

D Dong Yong Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Dong Yong (December 15, 1968 -), whose real name is Dong Jing, is an actor from Mainland China. He was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province and was a Peking Opera martial arts student. Graduated from the China Academy of Opera in 1986. His main representative works include "Six Serious Cases", "Black Hole", "Huo Yuanjia", "Trident", etc. In 2004, he was nominated for the 24th Feitian Award for Outstanding Actor for his role as Peng Dashu in "The Family Tree". In 2005, he participated in the film "Fearless" directed by Yu Rentai and won the Best Supporting Actor nomination for the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award. On December 17, 2014, he played Zeng Keda in "All Quiet in Peking" and won the "Annual Screen Performance Award" at the 2014 National Drama Festival. Married at the end of the same year. In 2015, "Marshal Peng Dehuai" was launched, and he played Peng Dehuai. Four years later, he played Peng Dehuai again in the TV series "Diplomacy".

Dong Sicheng Dong Sicheng Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Dong Si Cheng (real name: Dong Si Cheng; Korean: Dongsicheng; English: Dong Si Cheng; October 28, 1997 -), a mainland Chinese actor and singer, stage name Yun Yun (Korean: win win, English: WINWIN), was born and raised in Lucheng District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. He was a member of the Korean boy group NCT under SM Entertainment. Debuted in 2016 with the Seoul unit NCT 127. Debuted in 2019 with Chinese sub-unit WayV. In 2021, a personal studio will be officially established in mainland China. Withdrew from the portfolio on July 8, 2026 due to contract expiration.

D Dong Hui Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Dong Hui (May 22, 1997 -), whose English name is Gigi Jess, is a Chinese actress. He was once a child star. He was noticed by the director when he was six years old. He had already appeared in twenty film and television works by the age of eleven, and was later taken seriously by Yu Zheng. She has filmed many TV series, including: "Big Maid", "Suo Qingqiu", "Rose River", "Beauty's Scheming", "Beauty Without Tears", etc. He has also participated in many movies, and has co-starred with Jay Chou and Lin Chiling in the movie "The Tomb", which is listed as his film masterpiece. The representative of the TV series is the childhood Zhang Yan played in "Beauty's Scheming", which made her popularity soar. Due to her outstanding performance in the play, she won the love of directors and producers, and was gradually recognized by the audience. She has entered the ranks of domestic first-line child stars. She is also the goddaughter of actress Ruby Lin. In 2013, she was invited by a Hong Kong director to participate in the stage play "Moonlight Volley", playing the role of "Yu Xiaoqin". With her flexible performance and superb acting skills, she defeated many senior artists and won the "Best Actress" and "Favorite Female Child Star" awards at the "13th China Youth Stage Drama Gold Cup Awards".

Dong Chengpeng Dong Chengpeng Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Dong Chengpeng (January 12, 1982 -), whose stage name is Dapeng, is a native of Ji'an, Jilin, a Chinese host, singer, actor, director and screenwriter, and the 53rd disciple of Zhao Benshan. He started his hosting career in 2004 and released his solo single "Drunken Heart" in the same year. In 2007, he founded China's first Internet talk show "Dapeng's Bar". In 2012, he directed and starred in the online drama "Diaosi Man". In 2015, he directed and starred in the movie "Pancake Man", making his debut as a film director. In 2018, he won the Best Feature Short Film at the 55th Golden Horse Awards for "Auspicious". In 2023, he won the Best Actor Award at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award and was nominated for the Best Actor at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards for the movie "The Eighth Suspect".

D Dong Haomin Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Dong Haomin is a director and producer. He graduated from the School of Communication, University of the Arts London, with a Master of Arts degree, studying visual expression and new media content creation. He once worked for the British "Sunday Mirror" and is currently the head of the Dong Haomin Director Studio of the Science and Education Program Production Center of China Central Television. Member of the China Television Artists Association, member of the Royal Society of Arts FRSA, and member of the London Oriental Ceramics Society.

D Dong Yan Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Dong Yan is a Chinese filmmaker, director, and Australian talk show actor. Representative work: "Gottes Heil" short film exhibited at the Zurich Pavilion at the World Expo, the spring of Sino-French cultural exchanges.

Tim Burton Tim Burton Film & TV · United States

Timothy Walter Burton, nicknamed Tim Burton, is an American film director, producer, artist, author, and animator. Known for its dark, gothic, and death style. Born in Burbank, California. His well-known animation works include "Nights in the City", "Star Wars: Destroyer", "Hell's Bride" and "Weirdos". He is also famous for directing the superhero film "Batman" and its sequel "Batman Begins", the science fiction film "Battle for the Planet of the Apes", the musical adventure film "The Chocolate Factory" and the fantasy films "The Master of Hell", "Occult" and "Odd Orphanage".

Tim Roth Tim Roth Film & TV · U.K.

Tim Roth (Tim Roth, May 14, 1961 -), British film actor and director. His most well-known works are mostly American films, including "The Pianist", "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", "Conquer", "The Doctor" and "The Hateful Eight". In 1995, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Rob Roy". In addition, he also participated in the FOX TV series "Lie to Me."

Till Schweiger Till Schweiger Film & TV · Germany

Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger (German: Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger, born December 19, 1963), commonly known as "Til Schweiger", is a famous German actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is famous for his performances in the movies "Knocking on Heaven's Door", "The Rabbit Without Ears", "101 Happy New Years", "Bad Agent" and "This Damn Love". Since 1968, he has been one of Germany's most successful filmmakers, and according to the German statistics agency, he is the actor who attracts the most audiences to cinemas. He runs his own film production company in Berlin, Germany.

Timothée Chalamet Timothée Chalamet Film & TV · France

Timothée Hal Chalamet (English: Timothée Hal Chalamet, born December 27, 1995), nicknamed "Sweet Tea" in the Chinese circle, is a French-American actor and producer. He began his acting career by appearing in a number of short films before starring in the 2012 TV series Homeland. Two years later, he starred in his first feature film, The Man in the Clouds, and in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film Interstellar. In 2017, Chalamet gained wider recognition with supporting roles in the comedy "Lady Bird" and the western "Hostiles", as well as the lead role in the romance "Call Me by Your Name" directed by Luca Guadagnino. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the latter, making him the third youngest nominee for the award. The following year, he played a drug-addicted teenager in the drama film Beautiful Boy, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2024, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the biopic "Bob Dylan: Rock Poet". In 2026, he won the 83rd Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his feature film "Rampage", becoming the youngest winner of this award. On the stage, Chalamet starred in John Patrick Shanley's autobiographical play The Hustler, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award and won a Lucille Rotel Award.

Timothy Hutton Timothy Hutton Film & TV · United States

Timothy Tarquin Hutton (English: Timothy Tarquin Hutton, August 16, 1960 -) is an American actor and director. He is the youngest winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the history of the Academy Awards, winning for his role as Conrad Jarrett in "Ordinary People" when he was 20 years old.

J Jiang Xiaohan Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Jiang Xiaohan (February 14, 1982 -), a native of Beijing, graduated from the University of Manchester, a program host and actress in mainland China.

J Jiang Chunliang Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Jiang Chunliang (1988-October 7, 2021), male, from Huainan, Anhui, is an actor and director from Mainland China. He graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama. His representative works include "Four Famous Catchers", "Heroes of Fire", "Fat Man Action Team", "Brothers Sleeping in My Upper Bunk", "Only Mom is Good in the World", "Gu Jian Qi Tan: The Moon Shines", "Spent a Long Time with Anthony", etc. On the evening of October 7, 2021, Jiang Chunliang died at the age of 33 due to failed rescue efforts. The farewell ceremony for his body will be held on October 9 at the Fengtai County Funeral Home.

pubajia pubajia Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Wu Ze Pubajia (Tibetan: ཕུར་པ་སྐྱབས།, Wiley: phurpa skyabs, July 8, 1985 -), a Tibetan, Chinese actor and singer from the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. In 2006, he made his debut by winning the national championship of Dragon TV's "Come on Good Man".

Lan Tianye Lan Tianye Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Lan Tianye (May 3, 1927 - June 8, 2022), formerly known as Wang Runsen, also known as Wang Huang, male, was born in Raoyang, Hebei, and was a Chinese drama, film and television actor and director. Actor and director at Beijing People's Art Theater. The representative drama works "Teahouse" and "Cai Wenji", the representative TV works "Desire" Wang Zitao, and "The Legend of the Gods" Jiang Ziya. One of the first 29 recipients of the July 1st Medal.

Lan Hongchun Lan Hongchun Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Lan Hongchun (1985-) is a mainland Chinese director and screenwriter. He mainly represents the "Chaoshan Trilogy" of Chaozhou-dialect films - "Dad, I Can Do It", "Take You to Meet My Mom" ​​and "A Love Letter to Grandma". His works are often based on the local culture of Chaoshan.

Charlene Choi Charlene Choi Film & TV · Canada

Charlene Choi (English: Charlene Choi, November 22, 1982 -), Hong Kong female singer, actress, member of the girl group Twins, nicknamed "Ah Sa". Born in Vancouver, Canada, and raised in Hong Kong, she started working as a part-time model for magazines and advertisements in the third year of secondary school. In 1999, she served as a special actor in the movie "Since He Came Here". In 2000, she filmed the youth drama "Youth@Y2K" which was very popular. After that, she signed a contract with Emperor Entertainment to become an artist. She formed Twins with Gillian Chung and made her debut the following year with the song "Caritas Secret Love Tuition Club". In 2005, it officially expanded into the Chinese-speaking market, entered Taiwan, and became popular on campus. In September 2002, at the age of 19, she became the youngest female singer to hold a concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum (Coliseum) in Hung Hom.

Cai Shaofen Cai Shaofen Film & TV · British Hong Kong

Ada Choi Siu Fun (English: Ada Choi Siu Fun; September 17, 1973 -), native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, Hong Kong actress. Since the 2010s, the focus of performing arts has shifted to mainland China, but its Hong Kong-style Mandarin is often criticized. She is most familiar with her classic lines "I can't do it" in the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "I used to call her Xiao Tiantian, but now I call her Mrs. Niu" in the movie "Westward Journey".

Cai Kangyong Cai Kangyong Film & TV · Republic of China

Kevin Tsai (English: Kevin Tsai, March 1, 1962 -), Taiwanese host, writer and director. In his early years, Cai Kangyong was a film critic and screenwriter. His screenwriters include "A Baby" (1990) and "Fang Shiyu" (1993), and later became a writer and host. From 2004 to 2016, he co-hosted "Kangxi Is Coming" with Xiao S, which was a great success in the Chinese world and won the Best Variety Show Host Award at the 40th Golden Bell Awards. From 2014 to 2020, he co-hosted "Qi Pa Shuo" with Ma Dong and others. He has hosted the Golden Bell Awards twice, the Golden Horse Awards seven times, and directed the film "Eat Love" (2017). Cai Kangyong is the author of "Happy Diary", "LA Wanderings", "Things Those Boys Taught Me", "Cai Kangyong's Way of Speaking" series and "Cai Kangyong's Emotional Intelligence Class" series, etc.

Tsai Ming-liang Tsai Ming-liang Film & TV · Republic of China

Tsai Ming-liang (October 27, 1957 -) is a film director who was born in Sarawak, East Malaysia and moved to Taiwan. His films have won major awards at major film festivals at home and abroad. He is an internationally renowned film author and one of the representatives of Malaysian films in Taiwan. He has won many important awards at three major international film festivals in Europe, including "Love" "Long Live Love" (1994) and "Outing" (2013) won the Golden Lion and the Jury Prize respectively at the Venice Film Festival, and "The River" (1997) won the Silver Bear and "Days" (2020) the Teddy Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. "The Face" (2009) became the first film to be collected by the Louvre, setting a benchmark and model for art films. He has been shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival four times, the Cannes Film Festival three times, the Berlin Film Festival three times, and the Golden Horse Award for Best Director eight times.

Cai Qin Cai Qin Film & TV · Republic of China

Tsai Chin (English: Tsai Chin, December 22, 1957 -), Taiwanese female singer, actress and host. In the late 1970s, he entered the music scene as a campus folk singer. In 1979, he became famous with the song "Just Like Your Tenderness". In the same year, he released his first solo album "Out of the Sea". She is a finalist for Taiwan's three gold medals and is an important driving force behind the establishment of Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards.