1. Huang Xiaoming or Mark Huang is a Chinese actor and singer.
27 Facts About Huang Xiaoming
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Huang Xiaoming was born in Qingdao, Shandong and is an only child.
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Huang Xiaoming's father was an engineer while his mother was an accountant.
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Huang Xiaoming is the second older cousin of Olympian Chen Meng, who won two table tennis gold medals at Tokyo 2020.
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In 1984, Huang Xiaoming was initially chosen by a producer to star in a drama as a child actor, but was dropped later because of his shy and introverted personality.
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Huang Xiaoming gained attention when he was chosen to replace Lu Yi for the leading role in The Prince of Han Dynasty, which earned high ratings.
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Huang Xiaoming later starred in all three installments of the series from 2001 to 2005, and went from an unknown newbie to an A-lister.
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Huang Xiaoming followed with a list of popular TV dramas, such as Merry Wanderer Tang Bohu, for which he won the Outstanding Actor award at the 14th Zhejiang TV Peony Award for his performance; My Fair Princess III.
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Huang Xiaoming played the leading roles in Shanghai Bund, a remake of the 1980 Hong Kong television series The Bund, and Royal Tramp, adapted from Louis Cha's wuxia novel The Deer and the Cauldron.
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Huang Xiaoming then starred in the Hong Kong action film The Sniper, martial arts film Ip Man 2 and the historical epic Sacrifice directed by Chen Kaige.
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Huang Xiaoming made a comeback to television with Taiwanese idol drama Summer's Desire, based on the novel of the same name by Ming Xiaoxi.
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Huang Xiaoming starred in martial arts epic The Guillotines and played the younger version of Chow Yun-fat's character in The Last Tycoon.
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Huang Xiaoming starred in the film American Dreams in China by Peter Chan.
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Huang Xiaoming starring alongside Joe Chen in the period romance drama, Cruel Romance.
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In 2017, Huang Xiaoming starred in the historical wuxia drama Nirvana in Fire 2.
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In 2018, Huang Xiaoming starred in the drama film Forever Young, which tells stories of four generations of students from Tsinghua University.
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In 2019, Huang Xiaoming starred in the disaster film The Bravest as a fire fighter.
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In 2020, Huang Xiaoming starred in the period romance drama Winter Begonia produced by Yu Zheng.
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In 2009, Huang Xiaoming donated one million yuan to adopt two panda cubs and was named an ambassador to China's Panda Protection Research Center.
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In 2010, Huang Xiaoming donated 200,000 yuan for earthquake relief to support for victims of the Yushu temblor in Northwest China's Qinghai province.
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In 2016, Huang Xiaoming was named a UNAIDS National Goodwill Ambassador for China.
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From 2000 to 2004, Huang Xiaoming dated his Beijing Film Academy classmate Liu Liqi.
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In September 2003, Huang Xiaoming began dating actress Qin Lan, whom he had co-starred in My Fair Princess III and fell in love while filming TV series Dragon Stamp.
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In 2007, Huang Xiaoming dated actress Li Fei'er, whom he met while filming the TV series The Deer and the Cauldron.
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In 2009, Huang Xiaoming began a relationship with Angelababy, which he went public on 28 February 2014.
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Shortly after, Huang Xiaoming denied the long-standing rumor that Angelababy was the other woman.
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Huang Xiaoming denied the marriage in a response to Next Apple, a Taiwanese online media outlet.