Zeng Li: After 21 years of debut, there is no competition, and all three boyfriends are movie stars.
Sun Qian's new drama "Youth in the Wind" is a hit. In addition to the new generation of actors, the drama also includes Liu Lin, Tian Yu, Li Naiwen and other senior actors who have performed well. Not vulgar.
Especially Zeng Li, who plays the mother of the male protagonist Zhai Zilu, was discovered by the outside world:
Although her acting skills are excellent, it is a bit inconsistent to stand next to her "son" - she is too beautiful, more like a sister than a mother.
Indeed, as recognized in the industry as a "200-year-old beauty", Zeng Li was hailed as the "Big Qingyi" when she debuted, and her positioning is much higher than that of the "Little Hua Dan".
And she has many classic roles in her hands, but for some reason, she has never been able to become popular.
Now she can only rely on Zhao Lusi, the "little flower" who played her mother before, to post pictures and make them trending?
In fact, looking at the domestic entertainment industry, there are many female stars who are at the peak of their debut or who have many masterpieces but are tepid:
Are they really unlucky, or have they just made the life choices they want? ?
1. Zeng Li
Zeng Li, 48, has been in the industry for 24 years. According to his current age, there is no problem playing the role of a mother. It's a pity that
was so brilliant when he was young, but it didn't become famous and go to the front line.
Before she was admitted to the Chinese Opera School, she had many years of experience studying Peking Opera. Therefore, she has a graceful figure and outstanding appearance. She is also a school belle in the film academy where there are many beauties, surpassing Zhang Ziyi and Yuan Quan in beauty.
In 2003, not long after his debut, Zeng Li became well-known to the audience for his role as Yan Ruyu in the hit "Men and Women".
Her appearance is gorgeous but not tacky, and her temperament is quite capable.
What's even more rare is that in addition to modern dramas, Zeng Li has also amazed the audience with his role as the female ghost Mei Sanniang in "New Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".
But the pinnacle of her career may have been the movie "The Sweeney" 18 years ago - for which Zeng Li was shortlisted for the "Queen of Actresses" at the Shanghai Film Festival.
After that, at the age of 30, she seemed to have stopped making progress. Although she could produce new works every year, the response was never as good as before.
Moreover, she is a low-key person. She has been in love several times but never made any publicity, so her presence in the expensive circle is getting lower and lower.
In recent years, Zeng Li has been reduced to playing the role of mother, master, etc. to popular flowers and niche students, but her own mentality is excellent.
As for the reason, she said in her early years that she had no desire to be popular and it would be good to keep filming.
2. Gao Lu
The 42-year-old Gao Lu is also a "hidden pearl" in the hearts of the public - she was born in an artistic family, and her mother is a children's drama actress, so she grew up in the theater since she was a child.
But she never thought of becoming an actor. Her early plan was to become a painter.
Due to her plan to study abroad being put on hold, Gao Lu rushed to get admitted to the Chinese Opera Department of Acting. Shortly after her debut, she encountered the costume drama "The Unruly Princess", in which she played the role of the gentle and virtuous lady Wen Qiang, which attracted attention.
There were rumors at the time that Su Youpeng, the male protagonist of the drama, had fallen in love with her at first sight while filming the drama.
But Gao Lu doesn’t like to hype, and many years later he personally denied the matter.
At the same stage, the TV series "Days Related to Youth" in which she participated was also being aired. The character Jin Yan played was extremely tragic and unforgettable.
But what really made Gao Lu famous was the 2010 emotional drama "Home, nth power".
She has successfully entered the hearts of many viewers with "Sister Li Zi", but what is little known is that because of this role, Gao Lu was exposed to the news of a secret marriage by her co-star Bai Baihe, which greatly affected her rising career fortune.
It is said that the "conflict" between the two people originated from this role. The original candidate was Bai Baihe, but the screenwriter felt that she was more suitable to play the villain "Zhao Wen" with a poor personality, so Gao Lu successfully missed the role and became popular.
After the news of the secret marriage was disclosed, Gao Lu admitted that she was married and later gave birth to a daughter and a son in a low-key manner.
After that, her focus seemed to be on family business. Although she released new works every year, she never came up with a more representative role, which seemed to be lost to everyone.
Until 2018, Gao Lu became famous again by successfully playing the role of the villain "Lin Xiaoniang" in "Do You Know Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" - which shows that villains can also become actors.
But now that she is over forty, although her acting skills are still recognized, the scripts she receives can only be supporting roles.
3.Yang Xue
Yang Xue, who was once hailed as the originator of "crazy beauties", followed a pure route when she debuted, and her future is bright.
Many years later, Yang Ying debuted and became a "top star". Some people dug out stills from her early years to prove that the two had a collision. This shows that the latter also had the opportunity to become a popular actress, and her acting skills are also very good.
She made her debut in 2000 by starring in the romantic movie "Will You Fall in Love with a Stranger", and the following year she began to play the female lead in the romantic drama "I Must Have You".
Maybe there are still viewers who remember that in the ancient idol drama "Butterfly Flying", Yang Xue also crushed various actresses such as Wang Luodan and Kong Wei.
But the role that really makes everyone remember her is the role of Jiang Yuyan in the 2005 hit "Little Fish and Flowers".
From the simple ignorance in the early stage to the madness in the later stage, Yang Xue completed the darkening of the character without wearing any smoky makeup. Her acting skills are so good that she has become a "childhood shadow" in the hearts of many viewers.
She has a unique sense of yandere, so whether she is playing an innocent little white flower or a vicious female villain, she can handle it well.
But again, Yang Xue’s ambition does not seem to be strong.
In 2009, she chose to get married with Zhao Hai, who was an art designer. After that, she gave birth to her daughter, and therefore missed the climbing period of her career.
In fact, the same year she got married, she starred in the role of Lin E in the war drama "The Righteous Way in the World Is Vicissitudes of Life" and won the Most Promising Actress Award.
But after that, although Yang Xue still worked at the front desk every year, she had no outstanding roles.
Even at one point, her workload dropped sharply, and she seemed to be semi-retiring.
Until recently, Yang Xue was active and joined the live streaming army. She also wanted to get more popular by reaping the dividends of "Jiang Yuyan", but the attention was not as good as expected.
4. Yang Rong
Yang Rong, who is only 43 years old this year, is known as the "second child of a thousand years" - this is because she has appeared in countless popular works, but in each of them she played the second female lead.
This may also have something to do with her character.
Yang Rong made her debut by starring in the movie "The Opium War" at the age of 15. Later, she was admitted to the theater due to her outstanding performance.
Before other "little flowers" entered the industry or were struggling, she had already played the leading female role.
Especially in 2001, 20-year-old Yang Rong participated in the costume drama "Young Emperor" and gained a lot of presence because of her role as the gentle Concubine Tong.
She was also the unruly and eccentric little kite in "Young Master Bao Qingtian 3" - this role is very different from Concubine Tong's personality. From this, we can judge that Yang Rong is extremely malleable and her acting skills are not bad.
But after that, she also missed many popular works because of her too Buddhist personality. She refused the olive branch offered by a big director more than once and missed the chance to become popular.
Until 2012, she became famous again because she played the role of the villain Xu Jiaxiang in Yu Zheng's "Palace Lock Bead Curtain".
After that, Yang Rong continued to play roles, such as Yue Lingshan, Xiao Huanyun, Huo Chengjun, etc., which left a deep impression on the audience.
Even if it is a "blockbuster", her performance never stretches her hips, but she is always in the situation of "the leading female role cannot carry the drama, but the second female lead can always crush the leading female role", so she is called "The second child of a thousand years".
Especially in recent years, Yang Rong's workload has also been reduced, but she has produced dramas such as "The Mountain's Daughter". It can be seen that she still has ambition and original intention for acting, which is commendable.
5.Li Qian
Li Qian, who just turned 40 this year, studied dancing in her early years. After graduation, she was originally going to work in the China Children's Theater, but unexpectedly she was spotted by a producer who offered her an olive branch and invited her to film.
Immediately afterwards, Li Qian successfully broke out of the industry by playing the role of the weird elf maid "Little Niba" in "Martial Arts". The character
has also become one of its classic representative characters.
After that, Li Qian successively acted in costume dramas such as "Li Wei Becomes an Official" and "Xiao Shiyilang", and naturally became a "professional maid".
But because she has no ambition to become popular, her development has also fallen into mediocrity. New works are released every year, but she just fails to break into the forefront.
However, Li Qian's ambitions for acting are not small. For example, in 2010, she played the role of a tragic pregnant woman in a natural disaster in Feng Xiaogang's movie "1942" in China.
She also had a spark with actor Huang Xuan while filming, but it ended in regret.
After this, Li Qian continued to film movies steadily, but she still never promoted herself and almost never participated in variety shows.
Until 2018, she appeared on the acting reality show "I Am an Actor", and because of her outstanding performance, she crushed her fellow competitor Li Xiaomeng, and received angry praise from her mentors Zhang Ziyi, Lu Chuan and others.
But that’s it.
Li Qian later interpreted roles such as Qiu Fen in "The Big Exam", Yang Hua in "Grandma's New World", and Xu Shuxiu in "Dajiang Dahe", but they were basically supporting roles.
6. Yan Danchen
Yan Danchen, who was once hailed as "the most beautiful Chang'e" by the outside world, also showed her sharpness in her early debut, especially her gorgeous and recognizable appearance, which made her stardom bright.
As a classmate of Huang Xiaoming, Chen Kun and others, she was at the peak of her career - she won many awards in 1997 for starring in "Carry Dad to School", and then starred in the movie "Flower Season·Rainy Season", for which she won the Huabiao Award Best Newcomer Award.
When he was young, Yan Danchen looked beautiful in ancient costumes, such as the role of Concubine Yang in "The Love of the Tang Dynasty", Chang'e in "The Lotus Lantern" and so on.
As a result, she became the brightest rising star of the year. However, Yan Danchen soon fell into a turmoil, which caused a blow to her career that had finally improved.
In 2007, when she was having a reunion with her classmates from Beijing Film Academy, she caused an uproar due to an intimate photo of her and Guo Xiaodong, and then there was news that the two were secretly engaged.
Although the matter was settled, Yan Danchen later changed his career and went to make movies, but none of them were hits.
After that, her resources dropped visibly, and after a few more years of "floating", Yan Danchen returned to the TV drama market, but unfortunately it seemed that she had long since lost her position as the heroine.
Yan Danchen can only play marginal roles such as concubines and village girls in the future, losing her previous glory.
In 2022, the 44-year-old suddenly announced that she had given birth to a baby. The identity of her husband, director Meng Haoqiang, also surfaced on the same day - the two met and fell in love while working together on "Northern Land".
After this, Yan Danchen’s presence became even lower.
7.Jiao Junyan
Jiao Junyan is younger than the above-mentioned actresses. She also had many classic roles in her early years:
For example, the volunteer Xiaoyi in her debut movie "Butterfly on the Shoulder" and the rural character in "Falling in Love with My Ex-Wife" Little sister Wang Jianjun, Feng Jiaqi, the best friend of the heroine Huang Xiaoxian in "33 Days of Love", etc.
But it was the popular urban drama "Meeting Wang Lichuan" in 2016 that really made her seen by most viewers. Because of this, Jiao Junyan was called "Forever Xie Xiaoqiu" by the outside world.
Especially the male lead of this drama, Godfrey Gao, passed away due to an accident, which also cast a layer of sadness over this classic screen pairing.
It’s just that Jiao Junyan rarely produced more outstanding roles and works after this, although her acting skills, appearance, and character are all highly recognized. Because
participated in the variety show "My Girl," her father's complaints on the show seemed to understand why she had been tepid for many years since her debut:
dressed casually, had no idol baggage, and didn't seem to care about becoming famous.
Especially in the past few years, Jiao Junyan has continued to play roles, and has successively produced works such as "Outside the Court" and "Ask the Cangming", but she is still an actor, not a star.
Zeng Li: After 21 years of debut, there is no competition, and all three boyfriends are movie stars.
Sun Qian's new drama "Youth in the Wind" is a hit. In addition to the new generation of actors, the drama also includes Liu Lin, Tian Yu, Li Naiwen and other senior actors who have performed well. Not vulgar.
Especially Zeng Li, who plays the mother of the male protagonist Zhai Zilu, was discovered by the outside world:
Although her acting skills are excellent, it is a bit inconsistent to stand next to her "son" - she is too beautiful, more like a sister than a mother.
Indeed, as recognized in the industry as a "200-year-old beauty", Zeng Li was hailed as the "Big Qingyi" when she debuted, and her positioning is much higher than that of the "Little Hua Dan".
And she has many classic roles in her hands, but for some reason, she has never been able to become popular.
Now she can only rely on Zhao Lusi, the "little flower" who played her mother before, to post pictures and make them trending?
In fact, looking at the domestic entertainment industry, there are many female stars who are at the peak of their debut or who have many masterpieces but are tepid:
Are they really unlucky, or have they just made the life choices they want? ?
1. Zeng Li
Zeng Li, 48, has been in the industry for 24 years. According to his current age, there is no problem playing the role of a mother. It's a pity that
was so brilliant when he was young, but it didn't become famous and go to the front line.
Before she was admitted to the Chinese Opera School, she had many years of experience studying Peking Opera. Therefore, she has a graceful figure and outstanding appearance. She is also a school belle in the film academy where there are many beauties, surpassing Zhang Ziyi and Yuan Quan in beauty.
In 2003, not long after his debut, Zeng Li became well-known to the audience for his role as Yan Ruyu in the hit "Men and Women".
Her appearance is gorgeous but not tacky, and her temperament is quite capable.
What's even more rare is that in addition to modern dramas, Zeng Li has also amazed the audience with his role as the female ghost Mei Sanniang in "New Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".
But the pinnacle of her career may have been the movie "The Sweeney" 18 years ago - for which Zeng Li was shortlisted for the "Queen of Actresses" at the Shanghai Film Festival.
After that, at the age of 30, she seemed to have stopped making progress. Although she could produce new works every year, the response was never as good as before.
Moreover, she is a low-key person. She has been in love several times but never made any publicity, so her presence in the expensive circle is getting lower and lower.
In recent years, Zeng Li has been reduced to playing the role of mother, master, etc. to popular flowers and niche students, but her own mentality is excellent.
As for the reason, she said in her early years that she had no desire to be popular and it would be good to keep filming.
2. Gao Lu
The 42-year-old Gao Lu is also a "hidden pearl" in the hearts of the public - she was born in an artistic family, and her mother is a children's drama actress, so she grew up in the theater since she was a child.
But she never thought of becoming an actor. Her early plan was to become a painter.
Due to her plan to study abroad being put on hold, Gao Lu rushed to get admitted to the Chinese Opera Department of Acting. Shortly after her debut, she encountered the costume drama "The Unruly Princess", in which she played the role of the gentle and virtuous lady Wen Qiang, which attracted attention.
There were rumors at the time that Su Youpeng, the male protagonist of the drama, had fallen in love with her at first sight while filming the drama.
But Gao Lu doesn’t like to hype, and many years later he personally denied the matter.
At the same stage, the TV series "Days Related to Youth" in which she participated was also being aired. The character Jin Yan played was extremely tragic and unforgettable.
But what really made Gao Lu famous was the 2010 emotional drama "Home, nth power".
She has successfully entered the hearts of many viewers with "Sister Li Zi", but what is little known is that because of this role, Gao Lu was exposed to the news of a secret marriage by her co-star Bai Baihe, which greatly affected her rising career fortune.
It is said that the "conflict" between the two people originated from this role. The original candidate was Bai Baihe, but the screenwriter felt that she was more suitable to play the villain "Zhao Wen" with a poor personality, so Gao Lu successfully missed the role and became popular.
After the news of the secret marriage was disclosed, Gao Lu admitted that she was married and later gave birth to a daughter and a son in a low-key manner.
After that, her focus seemed to be on family business. Although she released new works every year, she never came up with a more representative role, which seemed to be lost to everyone.
Until 2018, Gao Lu became famous again by successfully playing the role of the villain "Lin Xiaoniang" in "Do You Know Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" - which shows that villains can also become actors.
But now that she is over forty, although her acting skills are still recognized, the scripts she receives can only be supporting roles.
3.Yang Xue
Yang Xue, who was once hailed as the originator of "crazy beauties", followed a pure route when she debuted, and her future is bright.
Many years later, Yang Ying debuted and became a "top star". Some people dug out stills from her early years to prove that the two had a collision. This shows that the latter also had the opportunity to become a popular actress, and her acting skills are also very good.
She made her debut in 2000 by starring in the romantic movie "Will You Fall in Love with a Stranger", and the following year she began to play the female lead in the romantic drama "I Must Have You".
Maybe there are still viewers who remember that in the ancient idol drama "Butterfly Flying", Yang Xue also crushed various actresses such as Wang Luodan and Kong Wei.
But the role that really makes everyone remember her is the role of Jiang Yuyan in the 2005 hit "Little Fish and Flowers".
From the simple ignorance in the early stage to the madness in the later stage, Yang Xue completed the darkening of the character without wearing any smoky makeup. Her acting skills are so good that she has become a "childhood shadow" in the hearts of many viewers.
She has a unique sense of yandere, so whether she is playing an innocent little white flower or a vicious female villain, she can handle it well.
But again, Yang Xue’s ambition does not seem to be strong.
In 2009, she chose to get married with Zhao Hai, who was an art designer. After that, she gave birth to her daughter, and therefore missed the climbing period of her career.
In fact, the same year she got married, she starred in the role of Lin E in the war drama "The Righteous Way in the World Is Vicissitudes of Life" and won the Most Promising Actress Award.
But after that, although Yang Xue still worked at the front desk every year, she had no outstanding roles.
Even at one point, her workload dropped sharply, and she seemed to be semi-retiring.
Until recently, Yang Xue was active and joined the live streaming army. She also wanted to get more popular by reaping the dividends of "Jiang Yuyan", but the attention was not as good as expected.
4. Yang Rong
Yang Rong, who is only 43 years old this year, is known as the "second child of a thousand years" - this is because she has appeared in countless popular works, but in each of them she played the second female lead.
This may also have something to do with her character.
Yang Rong made her debut by starring in the movie "The Opium War" at the age of 15. Later, she was admitted to the theater due to her outstanding performance.
Before other "little flowers" entered the industry or were struggling, she had already played the leading female role.
Especially in 2001, 20-year-old Yang Rong participated in the costume drama "Young Emperor" and gained a lot of presence because of her role as the gentle Concubine Tong.
She was also the unruly and eccentric little kite in "Young Master Bao Qingtian 3" - this role is very different from Concubine Tong's personality. From this, we can judge that Yang Rong is extremely malleable and her acting skills are not bad.
But after that, she also missed many popular works because of her too Buddhist personality. She refused the olive branch offered by a big director more than once and missed the chance to become popular.
Until 2012, she became famous again because she played the role of the villain Xu Jiaxiang in Yu Zheng's "Palace Lock Bead Curtain".
After that, Yang Rong continued to play roles, such as Yue Lingshan, Xiao Huanyun, Huo Chengjun, etc., which left a deep impression on the audience.
Even if it is a "blockbuster", her performance never stretches her hips, but she is always in the situation of "the leading female role cannot carry the drama, but the second female lead can always crush the leading female role", so she is called "The second child of a thousand years".
Especially in recent years, Yang Rong's workload has also been reduced, but she has produced dramas such as "The Mountain's Daughter". It can be seen that she still has ambition and original intention for acting, which is commendable.
5.Li Qian
Li Qian, who just turned 40 this year, studied dancing in her early years. After graduation, she was originally going to work in the China Children's Theater, but unexpectedly she was spotted by a producer who offered her an olive branch and invited her to film.
Immediately afterwards, Li Qian successfully broke out of the industry by playing the role of the weird elf maid "Little Niba" in "Martial Arts". The character
has also become one of its classic representative characters.
After that, Li Qian successively acted in costume dramas such as "Li Wei Becomes an Official" and "Xiao Shiyilang", and naturally became a "professional maid".
But because she has no ambition to become popular, her development has also fallen into mediocrity. New works are released every year, but she just fails to break into the forefront.
However, Li Qian's ambitions for acting are not small. For example, in 2010, she played the role of a tragic pregnant woman in a natural disaster in Feng Xiaogang's movie "1942" in China.
She also had a spark with actor Huang Xuan while filming, but it ended in regret.
After this, Li Qian continued to film movies steadily, but she still never promoted herself and almost never participated in variety shows.
Until 2018, she appeared on the acting reality show "I Am an Actor", and because of her outstanding performance, she crushed her fellow competitor Li Xiaomeng, and received angry praise from her mentors Zhang Ziyi, Lu Chuan and others.
But that’s it.
Li Qian later interpreted roles such as Qiu Fen in "The Big Exam", Yang Hua in "Grandma's New World", and Xu Shuxiu in "Dajiang Dahe", but they were basically supporting roles.
6. Yan Danchen
Yan Danchen, who was once hailed as "the most beautiful Chang'e" by the outside world, also showed her sharpness in her early debut, especially her gorgeous and recognizable appearance, which made her stardom bright.
As a classmate of Huang Xiaoming, Chen Kun and others, she was at the peak of her career - she won many awards in 1997 for starring in "Carry Dad to School", and then starred in the movie "Flower Season·Rainy Season", for which she won the Huabiao Award Best Newcomer Award.
When he was young, Yan Danchen looked beautiful in ancient costumes, such as the role of Concubine Yang in "The Love of the Tang Dynasty", Chang'e in "The Lotus Lantern" and so on.
As a result, she became the brightest rising star of the year. However, Yan Danchen soon fell into a turmoil, which caused a blow to her career that had finally improved.
In 2007, when she was having a reunion with her classmates from Beijing Film Academy, she caused an uproar due to an intimate photo of her and Guo Xiaodong, and then there was news that the two were secretly engaged.
Although the matter was settled, Yan Danchen later changed his career and went to make movies, but none of them were hits.
After that, her resources dropped visibly, and after a few more years of "floating", Yan Danchen returned to the TV drama market, but unfortunately it seemed that she had long since lost her position as the heroine.
Yan Danchen can only play marginal roles such as concubines and village girls in the future, losing her previous glory.
In 2022, the 44-year-old suddenly announced that she had given birth to a baby. The identity of her husband, director Meng Haoqiang, also surfaced on the same day - the two met and fell in love while working together on "Northern Land".
After this, Yan Danchen’s presence became even lower.
7.Jiao Junyan
Jiao Junyan is younger than the above-mentioned actresses. She also had many classic roles in her early years:
For example, the volunteer Xiaoyi in her debut movie "Butterfly on the Shoulder" and the rural character in "Falling in Love with My Ex-Wife" Little sister Wang Jianjun, Feng Jiaqi, the best friend of the heroine Huang Xiaoxian in "33 Days of Love", etc.
But it was the popular urban drama "Meeting Wang Lichuan" in 2016 that really made her seen by most viewers. Because of this, Jiao Junyan was called "Forever Xie Xiaoqiu" by the outside world.
Especially the male lead of this drama, Godfrey Gao, passed away due to an accident, which also cast a layer of sadness over this classic screen pairing.
It’s just that Jiao Junyan rarely produced more outstanding roles and works after this, although her acting skills, appearance, and character are all highly recognized. Because
participated in the variety show "My Girl," her father's comments on the show seemed to understand why she had been tepid for many years since her debut:
dressed casually, had no idol baggage, and didn't seem to care about becoming famous.
Especially in the past few years, Jiao Junyan has continued to play roles, and has successively produced works such as "Outside the Court" and "Ask the Cangming", but she is still an actor, not a star.
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