Jiang Wenli

Jiang Wenli
Chinese name	蔣雯麗 (traditional)
Chinese name	蒋雯丽 (simplified)
Born	(1969-06-20) 20 June 1969 Tianjin, China
Spouse(s)	Gu Changwei
Awards Golden Rooster Awards Best Actress 2009 And the Spring Comes Golden Eagle Awards Best Actress 2008 Golden Marriage

Jiang Wenli (Chinese: 蒋雯丽, born 1969 in Bengbu, Anhui) is a Chinese actress. A native of Tianjin, she graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1992. Jiang was one of the members of the jury of the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2005. In 1993, she married cinematographer and director Gu Changwei.

Career

Early life

Jiang was born into an affluent family. Her father was a railroad engineer and her mother was a railroad telephone operator. Both of her parents love literature and the arts. Since Jiang was a young girl, her father taught her to appreciate famous books, paintings, and songs. When she was 5 years old, she dreamt about being a gymnast, so her mother sent her to study dance and gymnastics. However, since her stature did not fit the standards of a gymnast, the coach of the Bengbu city gymnastics team refused to regard her as a formal team member. Afterwards, she spent five years practicing as an informal member. At the age of 17, she took the college entrance examination with the goal of going to normal university. However, she was instead accepted by a water conservation secondary school because her score was five points below the acceptance line for a normal university. In 1986, she graduated from the secondary school and started to work at the Bengbu City Water Company. Her job was to design ways of water transportation for residents. Nevertheless, she was not satisfied with her life at the time and decided to go to Beijing in 1988 to start her new life.

College Period

Without any preparation, Jiang was accepted by the Beijing Film Academy. After she became a student of the academy, countless film companies invited her to play roles in their films. Her first role was a nursery school teacher in a TV series called Lily on Cliff, and that series won the Feitian TV Awards the same year. Jiang was also a candidate for the Best Supporting Actress award. After this, she played Shuixiu in the movie Li Li Yuan Shang Cao, which won an award at a French film festival. The last film of her college period was The Story of Xing Hua in which Jiang played a girl named Xing Hua. After graduating from college, she went to America for a long time before returning to China to continue her career.

1993-2001

After coming back to China, Jiang played a role in Miaomiao Liu’s movie Who you think you are. In 1993, she played an important role as Chengyi’s mother in the movie Farewell My Concubine, which won the Best Movie Award at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In 1999, Jiang acted in a 20 episode TV series called Lead by the Hand, and for her performance she won one of the Chinese television industry's highest honors, Best Actress, from both the Golden Eagle Awards and the Feitian TV Awards. In 2000, for her performance in the film Team Spirit, Jiang won the Best Actress award from Huabiao Film Awards. In 2001, the film The Treatment made her career even more successful.

2011-present

In 2011, Jiang began acting in the TV series When Happiness Knocks and it became a huge success. This series is broadcasting on CCTV-1, which is the most important channel in China. Also, the average audience rating was 3%, the highest of any series in the country.

Filmography

Films

• Farewell My Concubine, 1993
• Mr. Zhao, 1997
• The Gua Sha Treatment, 2001
• Taiwan Story, 2004
• And the Spring Comes, 2007
• Lost Indulgence, 2008
• Lan, 2010 (director)
• Love for Life, 2011
• Love on the Cloud (2014)
• The Left Ear (2015)
• The Master (2015)
• Distance (2015)

Television series

• Chinese Divorce (中国式离婚)
• 好想好想谈恋爱-Chinese version of Sex and the City (Jiang plays the Carrie Bradshaw character)
• Golden Anniversary (金婚), 2007
• 大宅门

Awards & Nominations

Feitian TV Awards

• 1999 Won: Outstanding Actress (For: Lead by the hand )
• 2009 Nominated: Outstanding Actress (For: Golden Marriage )

Golden Eagle Awards

• 1999 Nominated: Best Actress (For: Lead by the hand )
• 2008 Won: Best Actress (For: Golden Marriage )

Golden Rooster Awards

• 2004 Nominated: Best Actress (For: Taiwan Story)
• 2009 Won: Best Actress (For: And the Spring Comes)

Huabiao Film Awards

• 2004 Won: Outstanding Actress (For: Taiwan Story)

Rome International Film Festival

• 2007 Won: Best Actress (For: And the Spring Comes)

References

1. . Jiang Wenli: Wants be a gymastic, win the champion, become confidence after marriage (蒋雯丽：相当体操运动员 拿世界冠军 结婚后才自信）. Retrieved from http://sports.gmw.cn/2011-02/28/content_1659220.htm
2. . Jiang Wenli plays a romantic step mother with no lame. (蒋雯丽演浪漫继母不矫情） Retrieved from http://bjwb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-02/19/content_370399.htm
3. . 蒋雯丽： 把剩女演成万人迷 Retrieved from: http://bjwb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-02/25/content_372670.htm
4. . 对话 演老的演丑的是做演员的魅力所在 Retrieved from: http://bjwb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-02/28/content_373786.htm

External links

• Jiang Wenli at the Internet Movie Database
• Jiang Wenli at AllMovie
• Jiang Wenli at the Chinese Movie Database