Background
Guo Degang was born in Tianjin.
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Guo Degang was born in Tianjin.
His master was Hou Yaowen. He began to learn the art of storytelling, pingshu (评书), when he was 8 years old. Guo went to Beijing in 1995 and established Deyun She (德云社), a xiangsheng performance theater, in 1996.
Guo played a supporting role in a 2007 film Getting Home.