Chen Peisi (; born 1 February 1954) is a Chinese sketch

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, film and stage actor, and

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. Chen's oft-time comedy partner is

Zhu Shimao Zhu Shimao (; born 28 March 1954) is a Chinese comedian, sketch actor, and actor. Zhu's partner is Chen Peisi. Biography In 1954, Zhu was born in Linyi, Shandong. Zhu joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, he worked as an actor in the Fuz ...

Name

Chen Peisi is the second son of famous stage and film actor Chen Qiang. Chen Qiang's first son (Chen Peisi's brother) was born in 1951 while he was overseas in the Hungarian capital

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performing ''

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'', so he named his first son Chen Buda () after

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, the western half of Budapest, as he loved the city during the visit. When the second son was born three years later, he named the son Peisi after Pest, the eastern half of Budapest, as the

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phonetic translation of Budapest is "''Bù Dá Peì Sī''". Chen Qiang's youngest child and daughter Chen Lida () was also named after a part of Budapest — the

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in the

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between Buda and Pest.

Biography

Chen was born in

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on 1 February 1954. In 1966, Chen studied at

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. In 1969, during the

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, he worked in Inner Mongolia Production and Construction Corps. In 1973, Chen worked in

August First Film Studio August First Film Studio, or Bayi Film Studio ( Chinese: 八一电影制片厂; pinyin: ''Bāyī diànyǐng zhì piàn chǎng)'', is the only military film studio in China. Founded on August 1, 1952, it is a comprehensive film studio with the p ...

as an actor. In 1991, Chen set up a company named ''Hainan Comedy Film and Television Limited Company'' (), then renamed it ''Dadao Film and Television Limited Company'' (). In 2000, Chen and his partner

sued the China International Television Corporation over royalties from broadcasts which they won, but they were then taken off air by the parent company,

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. On October 26, 2020, he returned to the CCTV stage and served as the first instructor of the variety show "Gold Medal Comedy Class" after 20 years.

Filmography

Film

Television

Variety show

References

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