Gao Yuanyuan

Gao Yuanyuan is a Chinese actress who is known for her amazing and fresh performance in various movies as well in many TV commercials. She was born in the Fengtai District in China on the 5th of October in the year 1976. Unlike all other mainstream actresses from the film industry, Gao has not graduated from any institution that offered training and education regarding drama, theater or acting. It was only a sleight of fate when at the Beijing Wangfujing Shopping District she was spotted and given a chance to work for a commercial. She entered the film and glamor industry in the year 1996. She became a household name and face when her first commercial went on air. This commercial was for Meadow Gold ice-creams. After this TV advertisement, she was spotted in a minor role in a movie that was released in the year 1997.

The name of the movie is Spicy Love Soup. It was a comedy film directed by Zhang Yang. She was most widely recognized for her commercial for Qing Zui. Gao can be seen doing lead roles in various TV shows too like The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber in which she essayed the role of Zhou Zhiruo. This serial was an adaptation from a novel that was also of the same name. She also became an instant hit because she got international recognition when she walked the red carpet for 58th Cannes Festival in which her film also won an award. The film was Shanghai Dreams, and it won the award for Prix De Jury. Jackie Chan is a huge fan of Gao and considers her to be the freshest actress with a very chaste soul, unlike some actress in Honk Kong.

Gao did a movie opposite Mark Chao named Caught in the Web after which they started dating each other. They announced in public about their relationship and after two years of being committed, they consummated their relationship in marriage on 5th June in the year 2014.

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Gao is a Chinese actress known for films like Caught on the Web (2012), Beijing Bicycle (2001), and City of Life and Death (2009). She was born on 5 October 1979 in Beijing. Gao has not been professionally trained for acting or studied acting unlike all the other actresses in China. She was spotted in the streets of Wangfujing shopping district of Beijing and was cast as an actress for a TV Commercial of Meadow Gold Ice-cream. She appeared in some minor roles until 2000. Gao also did a small role in the film Spicy Love Soup in 1997, which was directed by Zhang Yang.

She was famously known as the “Fresh Mouth Girl” after she appeared in an advertisement for mint during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Later in 2002, she appeared in the leading role in Zhou Ziharo’s television series - The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber adapted from the novel of Louis Cha with the same title. Gao is a household name in Asia and became a global icon in 2005 when she made her international debut at the 58th Cannes Film Festival's red carpet for her film Shanghai Dreams. The movie was directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and won Prix de Jury Prize at the Cannes. Yuanyaun did several movies and TV series in her career.

The list of her films as the leading actress are Beijing Bicycle(2001), Spring Subway(2002), Shanghai Dreams(2005), Rob-B-Hood(2006), Love in the City(2007), Unfinished Girl (2007), In Love We Trust (2007), XXX: A Forbidden Love Story ,City of Life and Death, A Season of Good Rain, Ocean Heaven, Driverless, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Romancing in Thin Air, Caught in the Web, But Always, Blind Detective, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2, and Let’s Get Married. Gao was a torchbearer in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Nanjing. On 5 June 2014, Gao married Mark Chao. Mark Chao is the Taiwanese-Canadian model, singer, and actor. Gao won the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2009 for City of Life and Death; the movie was based on the Massacre of Nanjing.