Winston Chao
Winston Chao | |||||||||||
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| Born | Chao Wen-hsuan 9 June 1960 | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Actor | ||||||||||
| Years active | 1993–present | ||||||||||
| Awards | Lily Award for Best Actor 2006 Those Were the Days SIFF Award for Most Popular Actor 2007 Road to Dawn | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 赵文瑄 | ||||||||||
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Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet and Kabali. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose and Eat Drink Man Woman, and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997), Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011). His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace of Desire, the biographical mini-series The Legend of Eileen Chang (2004), the historical drama Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel Cold Nights (Han ye, 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011). He acted in the Indian Tamil film, Kabali (2016), in a villainous role opposite Rajinikanth. He has also appeared in the English-language films Skiptrace (2016) and The Meg (2018).
Filmography
[edit]Feature films
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1993 | The Wedding Banquet |
Wai-Tung Gao / |
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| 1993 | Top Cool |
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| 1994 | In Between |
Wong Man Fai / |
a.k.a. Conjugal Affairs, The New Age of Living Together |
| 1994 | Eat Drink Man Woman |
Li Kai / |
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| 1994 | Red Rose White Rose |
Tong Zhen-bao / 佟振 |
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| 1995 | Xiu Xiu 繡繡 |
Dr. Li Zhao | |
| 1995 | I Want to Go on Living |
Go Chun | |
| 1996 | Your Black Hair and My Hand |
Wenshan / |
a.k.a. Crazy Little Thing Called Love |
| 1996 | Tonight Nobody Goes Home |
Chen Siming / |
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| 1996 | Thunder Cop |
Chiu Kwok-ho / |
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| 1996 | In a Strange City |
Hsiang Kuo-chien / |
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| 1997 | The Island of Greed |
Minister of legal department | |
| 1997 | Intimates |
Wah / |
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| 1997 | Destination: 9th Heaven 衝上 |
Chin Cheng / |
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| 1997 | The Soong Sisters |
Sun Yat-sen / |
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| 1998 | A Little Life-Opera |
Sanpeng / |
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| 1998 | Burning Harbor |
Sato / |
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| 2002 | The Touch |
Yin's father / 嫣父 | |
| 2005 | Those Were the Days |
Hu Weichen / |
television film Lily Award for Best Actor |
| 2007 | Road to Dawn |
Sun Yat-sen / 孙中 |
SIFF Press Prize for Most Attractive Actor Guangzhou Student Film Festival Award for Most Popular Actor |
| 2011 | 1911 |
Sun Yat-sen / 孙中 |
Nominated – Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor |
| 2012 | Great Rescue |
Chu Fucheng / 褚辅 |
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| 2013 | The Palace 宫锁沉香 |
Emperor Kang Xi | |
| 2015 | Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal 钟馗 |
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| 2015 | Surprise |
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| 2016 | Chinese Wine |
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| 2016 | Xuanzang
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Emperor Taizong of Tang | A Chinese-Indian movie. |
| 2016 | Kabali கபாலி |
Tony Lee | A Tamil-language Indian production. |
| 2016 | Skiptrace |
Victor Wong | |
| 2018 | The Meg |
Dr. Minway Zhang | |
| 2019 | Pegasus | ||
| 2019 | Nezha | ||
| TBA | Love War |
Television series
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1997 | Thunderstorm |
Zhou Ping / |
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| 1997 | The Voyage Home |
Gu Li / 顧力 | a.k.a. Daoguang mi shi ( |
| 1997 | Bonds of Blood |
Xu Baiting (许拜 |
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| 1998 | Haihai de rensheng |
Ho Wei / |
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| 1999 | Huanxi renjia |
a.k.a. Happy Together | |
| 1999 | Maid in Green |
Yang Shaohui / 杨绍辉 | |
| 2000 | Jiayuan |
Lin Huaizhong / |
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| 2000 | Palace of Desire |
Xue Shao (薛绍) / Zhang Yizhi (张易 |
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| 2001 | Fame |
Huo Da / 霍达 | |
| 2001 | A War Diary 战争 |
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| 2001 | Sun Zhongshan 孙中 |
Sun Yat-sen / 孙中 |
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| 2002 | Hu xiao cangqiong |
Xiao Taiping / 萧太 |
a.k.a. Yuan yu ( |
| 2002 | The Merchant |
Wang Chi / |
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| 2003 | Yuxue nan'er |
Chen Hai / 陈海 | |
| 2004 | Guo bao |
Fan Sicheng / 范思 |
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| 2004 | The Legend of Eileen Chang 她從 |
Hu Lancheng / |
a.k.a. Shanghai wangshi ( |
| 2004 | Xiangqi miren |
Li Chun'en / |
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| 2006 | Harmony |
Wang Hongtu / |
a.k.a. Ma dian (马店) |
| 2006 | The Big Blast |
Wu Gang / 吴刚 | a.k.a. Tufa shijian ( |
| 2007 | Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan |
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang / |
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| 2008 | Great Porcelain Merchant |
Tao Shengren | |
| 2009 | Han ye |
Wang Wenxuan / |
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| 2009 | Da guo yi |
Guo Yishan | |
| 2009 | Archrivals |
Wen Weijun | |
| 2009 | Once Upon a Time on the Strait |
Lin Wenxuan | |
| 2009 | Maid in the Big House |
Chen Tianheng | a.k.a. Bai De Tang ( |
| 2009 | Tie jian dan daoyi |
Sun Yat-sen / 孙中 |
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| 2010 | Xiao Xiang Road 1 潇湘 |
Tong Shuangwei | a.k.a. Country in Chaos (沧海 |
| 2010 | Chuang tianxia 闖天 |
Zhao Tianfu | |
| 2011 | The Legend of Incorruptible Stone |
Zhang Zhao (Zibu) | |
| 2011 | Confucius |
Confucius / |
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| 2011 | Wu Zetian mishi |
Emperor Gaozong of Tang / |
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| 2011 | Family Reunion |
Liu Yu | |
| 2011 | Defend Army Soul 护国军魂传奇 |
Liang Qichao / |
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| 2012 | Shouwang de tiankong |
Yuan Weiguo | |
| 2012 | Sui Tang yingxiong |
Emperor Yang of Sui / 杨广 | |
| 2013 | Daughter's Return |
Pan Weilin / |
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| 2013 | The Legend of Dancing Prince |
异牟寻 | |
| 2014 | The Last Emperor |
Puyi / 溥仪 | |
| 2015 | Lonely Gourmet |
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| 2015 | Emperor Yao / 尧 | ||
| 2015 | The Legend of Mi Yue 芈月传 |
King Wei of Chu / |
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| TBA | Tian xing jian |
Zhou Zixuan | filmed in 2010 |
| 2017 | Xuan-Yuan Sword Legend: The Clouds of Han | Zhuge Liang | |
| 2018 | Negotiator | Xie Tianyou | |
| 2019 | Poetry of the Song Dynasty |
Zhao Tingmei | [1] |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Film | Result |
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| 2006 | Lily Awards ( |
Best Actor shared with Zhou Xiaobin[4] | Those Were the Days | Won |
| 2007 | Shanghai International Film Festival | Press Prize for Most Attractive Actor[5] | Road to Dawn | Won |
| Guangzhou Student Film Festival (广州 |
Most Popular Actor[6] | Won | ||
| 2012 | Hundred Flowers Awards | Best Actor[7] | 1911 | Nominated |
References
[edit]- ^ "《
大 宋 宫词》再 曝仿古海 报 刘涛珍 珠 妆惊艳别致" ["Da Song Gong Ci" re-exposed antique posters Liu Tao pearl makeup stunning and chic]. People's Daily (in Chinese). Beijing. 19 November 2018. - ^ "Winston Chao". Hong Kong Movie DataBase. Retrieved 23 September 2021.[unreliable source?]
- ^ "Winston Chao". chinesemov.com.[unreliable source?]
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数字 电影风光无限 2005年 电影频道百 合 奖揭晓 [Unlimited Digital Film Scenery 2005 Film Channel Lily Awards Announced]. Sina Corporation (in Chinese). 14 May 2006. Retrieved 1 October 2012. - ^ "Shanghai International Film Festival (2007)". IMDb. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
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第 五届广州大学生电影节闭幕 赵文瑄加冕影帝 [The 5th Guangzhou University Student Film Festival closes Zhao Wen's crowned most popular actor]. Sina Corporation (in Chinese). 2 January 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2021. - ^ 百花奖入围者获表彰
李 雪 健 感 谢杨善 洲 [Hundred Flowers Award finalists are commended]. Sina Corporation (in Chinese). 28 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
External links
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- Winston Chao at IMDb
- Winston Chao at the Encyclopedia Asian Stars
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