Chen Daoming (born 26 April 1955) is a Chinese actor who has starred in various genres of film and television series.[citation needed]
Career
Chen graduated from the
Central Academy of Drama. His first notable role was "
Puyi" (the last emperor of China) in the 1984 television series The Last Dynasty.
In 1990, he starred in CCTV's Fortress Besieged, a series that garnered the attention of the whole country in 1990 and established his status as one of China's most popular stars. In 2000, he was awarded the Best Actor Huabiao Awards and the Golden Rooster Awards for his role in Huang Jianzhong's historical drama My 1919, which was about the signing of the
Treaty of Versailles.
Chen is best known internationally for playing the King of Qin (who became
Qin Shi Huang later) in the 2002 film Hero, directed by
Zhang Yimou; as well as the tough undercover police detective in Infernal Affairs III. In 2014, Chen starred in Zhang Yimou's film Coming Home alongside
Gong Li.[1]
Personal life
In 1982, Chen married
Du Xian, a former news anchor from
China Central Television who was forced to resign for expressing sympathy (dressing in black and speaking slowly) when she reported the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 on 4 June 1989. Their daughter was born in 1985.
In 2010, the list started to include Chinese celebrities born in
Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and other countries. Prior to that it only included celebrities born in
mainland China.