Ma Li

Ma Li (June 28, 1982 -), a native of Dandong, Liaoning, is an actress from mainland China and the highest-grossing actress in Chinese film history. Ma Li graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and later entered the Lin Zhaohua Drama Training Class of Peking University. His acting career started with dramas, and then gradually involved in variety shows, sketches, TV series, and movies. Ma Li is a core member of the Happy Twist team. Since 2010, she has gradually become popular with her comedy sketches in collaboration with He Jiong, Shen Teng and others. In 2015, she played the heroine in the movie "Charlotte", which achieved great success at the box office and word of mouth, and successfully transformed into a movie actor. She and Shen Teng's "Shen Ma Group" have collaborated many times in movies, sketches, and variety shows, and are deeply loved by the audience. In 2022, Ma Li became the first actress in the history of Chinese films to have a box office of more than 10 billion yuan. By 2024, this record was broken by herself. The cumulative box office of her starring movies exceeded 20 billion yuan, making her the first female protagonist in Chinese film history to achieve this box office result. In August 2024, Ma Li won the Best Actress at the 37th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards for her movie "Article 20".