Zhu Yuanyuan was born and raised in Shibei District of Qingdao, Shandong, where she finished from Qingdao Art School in 1992, her ancestral home in Yixing, Wuxi, Jiangsu.
11 Facts About Zhu Yuanyuan
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Zhu Yuanyuan graduated from Central Academy of Drama in 1997, where she majored in acting.
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Zhu Yuanyuan began her career by appearing in small roles in 1995, such as Spring Breeze in the Evening, Modern Urban Heroine, and Waiting Hall.
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In 1998, Zhu Yuanyuan won the Best TV Actress Award at the Beijing Chunyan Awards and Favorite Actress Award at the Golden Eagle Awards for her performance in Loquacious Zhang Damin's Happy Life.
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In 2000, Zhu Yuanyuan played the role of Soong Ching-ling in Sun Yat-Sen, for which she won the Favorite Actress Award at the CCTV Television Awards.
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In 2001, Zhu Yuanyuan had a supporting role in Records of Kangxi's Travel Incognito 2, a historical television series starring Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie.
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In 2005, Zhu Yuanyuan 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 Awards, Golden Rooster Awards and Huabiao Film Awards, and won the Female Actor Award at the Golden Phoenix Awards.
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In 2010, Zhu Yuanyuan co-starred with Jet Li, Gwei Lun-mei and Wen Zhang in Ocean Heaven as the Aunt Chai.
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Zhu Yuanyuan was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Award at the Hundred Flowers Awards.
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In 2012, Zhu Yuanyuan played the lead role in Love in the Family, for which she earned her second Golden Eagle Awards for Favorite Actress.
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Zhu Yuanyuan married her university friend Xin Baiqing in 2004, their daughter was born in August 2008.