Bai Baihe (, born 1 March 1984) is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in films ''
Love Is Not Blind
''Love Is Not Blind'' () is a 2011 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Teng Huatao. The film was adapted from an online novel written by Bao Jingjing which has been popular among cyber users since its appearance. Due to the popularity of the ...
'' (2011), ''
Personal Tailor'' (2013), ''
Monster Hunt'' (2015), and ''
Go Away Mr. Tumor'' (2015), as well as the television series ''
Surgeons'' (2017) and ''
Sunshine by My Side'' (2023).
Early life
Bai was born in
Qingdao
Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...
,
Shandong
Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...
. She attended the Wendeng Road Elementary School. At a young age, Bai shown talents in singing, dancing and acting.
At the age of 12, she was admitted into the
Beijing Dance Academy
The Beijing Dance Academy (BDA, ) is a municipal public professional dance college at Haidian District, Haidian, Beijing. The academy is the highest institution for dance education and assessment in the People's Republic of China, conducting the ...
. In 2000, Bai auditioned for a role in
Zhang Yimou's film ''
Happy Times''. Even though she was not selected, Zhang saw potential in her and recommended her to apply for the
Central Academy of Drama; which Bai eventually got admitted to in 2002.
Career
Shortly after her graduation from the Central Academy of Drama, Bai Baihe made her acting debut in the television series ''Bloom of Youth'' (2006).
She continued to appear in dramas such as ''Where Is Happiness'' (2007) and ''
My Youthfulness'' (2009).
Bai achieved breakthrough with the 2011 romantic-comedy ''
Love Is Not Blind
''Love Is Not Blind'' () is a 2011 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Teng Huatao. The film was adapted from an online novel written by Bao Jingjing which has been popular among cyber users since its appearance. Due to the popularity of the ...
'', also starring
Wen Zhang
Wen Zhang (, born 26 June 1984) is a Chinese actor. He graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 2006. Wen ranked 58th on ''Forbes'' Forbes China Celebrity 100, China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, and 45th in 2014.
Career Rising popularity
...
. The
low-budget film
A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a film, motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studios, major film studio or private investor.
Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the mainstream ci ...
became a
surprise hit at the Chinese box office. Bai won the Best Actress award at the
Hundred Flowers Award.
The following year, she starred in spy drama ''Fu Chen'' and was nominated at the
Shanghai Television Festival
The Shanghai Television Festival (), abbreviated STVF, also known as the Shanghai International Television Festival is the first and one of the largest television festivals in East Asia. Held since 1986, STVF has become one of the most influential ...
for Best Actress.
Bai then starred in
Feng Xiaogang's comedy film ''
Personal Tailor'' (2013), which broke box office records on its opening day. The same year, Bai starred in romantic comedy ''
A Wedding Invitation'' alongside
Eddie Peng. The film was a commercial success and critics praise Bai for "keeping a character that could easily slip into shrill and childish far from that quagmire". Bai followed up with romantic drama film ''
The Stolen Years'', where she received rave reviews and was coined "mainland Chinese romance-drama royalty".
Bai solidified her status as China's Box Office Queen with the 2015 fantasy-comedy film ''
Monster Hunt'', directed by
Raman Hui. The film grossed over 1.8 billion yuan to become the second highest-grossing film in China. She then starred in romantic comedy film ''
Go Away Mr. Tumor'', which was selected as the Chinese entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film at the
88th Academy Awards Bai won the Best Actress award at the
China Film Director's Guild Awards,
Beijing Student Film Festival and
Huabiao Awards for her performance as a cartoonist who battles against cancer with an optimistic mind.
Bai topped the list of "Highest Grossing Actresses in China" for 2015, after having ranked 2nd in 2013. ''
Variety'' describes her as the "pretty girl next door with decent acting chops and good comic timing".
In 2016, Bai starred alongside
Chen Kun in crime caper film ''
Chongqing Hot Pot''. The film received acclaim and positive
word-of-mouth, grossing 152 million yuan in four days. She then featured in romance film ''
I Belonged to You'', which broke box office sales record for mainland-produced romance films.
In 2017, Bai starred in action cop thriller ''
The Missing'', directed by
Xu Jinglei. The same year, she filmed two television productions - medical drama ''
Surgeons'' and the romance series ''
Only Side by Side with You''.
In 2018, Bai reprised her role in the
sequel
A sequel is a work of literature, film, theatre, television, music, or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. In the common context of a narrative work of fiction, a sequel portrays events set in the same ...
of ''
Monster Hunt''. The film set the record for the highest box office day for a single market.
The same year, she starred in ''First Night Nerves'', a women-centric film directed by
Stanley Kwan.
In 2019, Bai starred in the drama film ''A City Called Macau'', adapted from
Geling Yan's novel of the same name and directed by
Li Shaohong. Bai was nominated for the Best Actress award at the
Golden Rooster Awards for her performance.
The same year, she starred in the drama film ''Begin, Again''.
She starred in the 2019 romantic comedy film ''A Boyfriend for My Girlfriend'' alongside
Wu Xiubo.
Personal life
Bai was married to singer and actor
Chen Yufan on 26 December 2006. They first met while appearing in a Chinese romantic comedy television series ''Bloom of Youth'' in 2004. Their son was born on 19 January 2008. On 16 April 2017, Bai announced that they had divorced at the end of 2015.
Filmography
Film
Television series
Discography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Living people
1984 births
Chinese film actresses
Chinese television actresses
Central Academy of Drama alumni
Actresses from Qingdao
21st-century Chinese actresses