Zhu Yuanyuan

Background

Zhu was born and raised in Shibei District of Qingdao, Shandong, where she graduated from Qingdao Art School in 1992, her ancestral home in Yixing, Wuxi, Jiangsu.

Education

Zhu graduated from Central Academy of Drama in 1997, where she majored in acting.

Career

Zhu is noted for her roles as Tao Hua and Song Yu in the film and television series The Forest Ranger and The Forest Ranger respectively. Acting career

Zhu began her career by appearing in small roles in 1995, such as Spring Breeze in the Evening, Modern Urban Heroine, and Waiting Hall. Zhu"s first film role was uncredited appearance in the film Bey, Our 1948 (1999).

That same year, she earned her Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance as Li Yun in Beautiful Family.

In 2001, Zhu had a supporting role in Records of Kangxi"s Travel Incognito 2, a historical television series starring Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie. In 2010, Zhu co-starred with Jet Li, Gwei Lun-mei and Wen Zhang in Ocean Heaven as the Aunt Chai.

She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Award at the Hundred Flowers In 2012, Zhu played the lead role in Love in the Family, for which she earned her second Golden Eagle for Favorite Actress.

Achievements

• In 1998, Zhu won the Best television Actress Award at the Beijing Chunyan and Favorite Actress Award at the Golden Eagle for her performance in Loquacious Zhang Damin"s Happy In 2000, Zhu played the role of Soong Ching-ling in Sun Yat-Senator, for which she won the Favorite Actress Award at the CCTV Television Foreign her role as Song Yu in Romantic Matter, Zhu was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award for Favorite Actress and Chinese Television Flying Apsaras Award for Outstanding Actress. In 2005, Zhu starred in The Forest Ranger, a film adaptation based on the novel of Zhang Ping"s The Attacker, she received nominations at the Shanghai Film Critics, Golden Rooster and Huabiao Film, and won the Female Actor Award at the Golden Phoenix.