Zhao Wei
Sign in to saveChinese actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1976)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 204
- Died
- 273
- Works
- 4
Top works
- 辦釋名
- 韋昭辨釋名
- 孝經解讚
- 毛詩答雜問
- 國語
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Film & TV
Acting · Wuhu, Anhui, China
Zhao Wei (Chinese: 赵薇, born March 12, 1976) is a mainland Chinese film actress and pop singer. Audiences sometimes refer to her by her English name, Vicki Zhao (sometimes spelt Vicky Zhao). She has been awarded the Hundred Flowers Award, Shanghai Film Critics Award, Huabiao Award, Golden Eagle TV Award as well as Shanghai Film Festival Golden Globet, two times Changchun Film Festival Golden Deer…
Known for
- Crazy Fist — Zhao Ying2021
- No. 7 Cherry Lane — Meiling (voice)2019
- Two Tigers — Zhou Yuan2019
- Everybody Stand By2019
- 青春同学会2018
- The Chinese Restaurant2017
- The Weaving of a Dream: Johnnie To's Vision and Craft — Self2016
- Three — Dr. Tong Qian2016
- Dragon Girls! — Herself2016
- The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse — Self2016
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,370
- Total plays
- 62,108
Tags
female vocalistschineseactressC-pop
趙薇 / 赵薇 (Simplified: 趙薇 Pinyin: zhao4 wei1 English: Vicki Zhao) …(Born on March 12, 1976 Wuhu, Anhui, China) is a Chinese film actress and pop singer. In 1999, Zhao entered the music industry and released her first album, Swallow. It included several tunes from the series Princess Pearl. The album was relatively successful and received several awards; critics commented on Zhao's potential in the music industry. In 1999, China's Pop Songs Chart Committee presented Zhao the "Best Potential
via Last.fm · 趙薇
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,130x
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,453x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 35,893x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,499x
- Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources
· 2008 · cited 31,455x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1976-03-12 ) 12 March 1976 (age 50) , Wuhu , Anhui, China
- Other names
- Wei Zhao Vicki Zhao Vicky Zhao
- Education
- Beijing Film Academy ( MFA )
- Occupations
- Actress filmmaker singer
- Years active
- 1994–2021
- Spouse
- Huang Youlong ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2021 )
- Awards
- See list
- Genres
- Mandopop
- Traditional chinese
- 趙 薇
- Simplified chinese
- 赵 薇
- Hanyu pinyin
- Zhào Wēi
- Ipa
- [ʈʂa ̂ ʊ we ́ ɪ]
- Jyutping
Key dates
- Born
- 12 March 1976
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Zhao
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Wuhu
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Beijing Film Academy
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Genre
- mandopop
Article
Zhao Wei (simplified Chinese: 赵薇; traditional Chinese: 趙薇; pinyin: Zhào Wēi; born 12 March 1976), also known as Vicky or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, singer, filmmaker, and businesswoman. Regarded as one of China's Four Dan actresses, she rose to fame for her role in the television series My Fair Princess (1998–1999), followed by such popular dramas and films as Romance in the Rain (2001), Shaolin Soccer (2001), Moment in Peking (2005), Painted Skin (2008), Mulan (2009), Dearest (2014), for which she won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress, Lost in Hong Kong (2015) and Tiger Mom (2015). Zhao made her directorial debut with So Young (2013), which is a commercial and critical success. She is also a singer with 7 albums and the second largest shareholder of Alibaba Pictures. Zhao ranked 80th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 22nd in 2014, 7th in 2015, and 28th in 2017.
Since 27 August 2021, Zhao has been blacklisted by the Chinese government, with most content featuring her removed from the Chinese Internet.
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