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Tang Wei is a Chinese female actor and model who began her professional career in 1998. Born on October 7, 1979, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China, she holds Chinese citizenship. She is married to Kim Tae-yong. Her education includes studies at the Central Academy of Drama and the University of Reading.
Wei speaks English, Putonghua, Korean, and Chinese. She is recognized for her role in the film *Lust, Caution*. Her accolades include the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actress and the Trophée Chopard.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- The story of the Chinese in Broome
- Grandma's Roof Garden
- Sunflowers Rise in a Midnight Sky
- Jiajing Xiaoshan xian zhi
- Lei she di fa zhan
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
Tang Wei (simplified Chinese: 汤唯; traditional Chinese: 湯唯; pinyin: Tāng Wéi; Korean: 탕웨이; born 7 October 1979) is a Chinese actress. She rose to international fame for her role in Golden Lion-winning Lust, Caution (2007) by Ang Lee, for which she was banned by the Chinese government due to the explicit sexual nature of her performance, until her comeback in Crossing Hennessy in 2010. She gained…
Known for
- Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema — Self2026
- New Old Boy : Dir. Park — Self2025
- Wonderland — Bai Li2024
- Decision to Leave — Song Seo-rae2022
- Civilization Express - The Great Feast of Movies — Self2022
- Push and Shove2019
- The Whistleblower — Zhou Wen2019
- Ming Dynasty — Sun Ruowei2019
- Long Day's Journey Into Night — Wan Qiwen / Kaizhen2018
- Finding Mr. Right 2 — Jiao2016
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- South Korea
- Active from
- 2020-07-10
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 60
- Total plays
- 949
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tang+Wei">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,223x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 36,982x
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,631x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,860x
- Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources
· 2008 · cited 31,718x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “For me in this (movie industry) job, in this work, it's more about who you are working with. It's nothing about what you're working on. It's the people, and the conversations, and also the chemistry that's more important for me.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1979-10-07 ) 7 October 1979 (age 46) , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China
- Other name
- Rebecca Tang
- Citizenship
- Chinese (Hong Kong)
- Education
- Central Academy of Drama
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1998 – present
- Agents
- Edko Films Ltd. (China) Creative Artists Agency (US)
- Notable work
- Lust, Caution , Decision to Leave
- Spouse
- Kim Tae-yong ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 )
- Awards
- Full list
- Traditional chinese
- 湯唯
- Simplified chinese
- 汤唯
- Hanyu pinyin
- Tāng wéi
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Tang Wei (simplified Chinese: 汤唯; traditional Chinese: 湯唯; pinyin: Tāng Wéi; Korean: 탕웨이; born 7 October 1979) is a Chinese actress. She rose to international fame for her role in Golden Lion-winning Lust, Caution (2007) by Ang Lee, for which she was banned by the Chinese government due to the explicit sexual nature of her performance, until her comeback in Crossing Hennessy in 2010. She gained further acclaim for her performances in Late Autumn (2010), Finding Mr. Right (2013), The Golden Era (2014), Long Day's Journey into Night (2018), Decision to Leave (2022), and Wonderland (2024).
Tang is the first and only non-Korean to be honored as the Best Actress at the Baeksang Arts Awards (twice), Blue Dragon Film Awards, Chunsa Film Art Awards and Buil Film Awards. She is also the first Asian actor to have won the Trophée Chopard, which she received at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Tang ranked 72rd on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2008, 70th in 2013, 38th in 2014, and 55th in 2015.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tang Wei” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.