Background
Yan Ni was born in Xi"an, Shaanxi.
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Yan Ni was born in Xi"an, Shaanxi.
She works for the Art center of the People"s Liberation Army Air Force. Yan"s parents are ordinary workers, and all her family still live in Xi"an. After high school, she enrolled at a financial college to study accounting.
Two years later she succeeded in gaining admission to an art organization of the People"s Liberation Army (PLA) in Lanzhou, and then went on to enroll at the PLA"s Art School in Beijing.
She started acting in 1992. In 1999 she had her first cinematic role, playing Qiqoqiqo Ma in the film Cog and Hen.
She then she has played several other roles in a series of films. She played Tong Xiangyu in My Own Swordsman, an 80 episode television comedy-drama that tells the story of the happenings in a tavern during the Ming Dynasty.
After My Own Swordsman, she played secretary Xiang Yunxiu in National Action and played Niu Xianhua in The North Wind.