Dai Xiangyu (born Dai Yangtian on 27 December 1984) is a Chinese actor and model formerly based in Singapore. He was a full-time

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artiste from 2007 to 2013.

Career

Dai was born in

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province in 1984. He did some modeling in

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and

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. While in Shanghai he was talent-spotted by

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and moved to Singapore to sign the contract. His big break came in 2008 when he played Yamamoto Yousuke, a Japanese photographer, in the blockbuster series ''

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'' and earned a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Star Awards. This role was supposed to go to

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who was injured just before filming. Dai acted the first time with

in ''

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'' and second time in '' No Limits''. Dai acted his first antagonist role in '' Breakout''. This is the third time Dai acted with

. Then, 8 Days touted them as the male version of Zoe Tay and Fann Wong. They appeared together in several cover page of 8 Days and I magazine. In 2011, Dai moved back to Shanghai, China and film a co-production drama ''Precious''. He played Ling Zhi Chu in ''Precious''.

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replaced him, who was originally selected to play the role of Mo Li Guang, as the male lead in the drama series '' A Song to Remember''. In 2012, Dai acted in ''

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''. In 2014, Dai signed on with Chinese artiste management agency Mango Entertainment. As of 29 July 2013, Dai officially changed his name from Dai Yangtian to Dai Xiangyu. After his departure from

Romeo Tan Romeo Tan (born Tan Romeo on 9 April 1985) is a Singaporean actor, who has been named as one of the 8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill. Tan came into prominence after finishing in fourth place on the tenth season of the talent search series ''Star ...

replaced him, who was originally selected to play the role of Hong Khee Leong, as the male lead in the drama series '' Sudden''. In 2019, he did the remake of Singapore’s most successful TV drama series ever, reprising the same role that shot him to fame in ''

'' with

Xiang Yun Xiang Yun (born Chen Cuichang on 27 October 1961) is a Singaporean actress and television host. She is commonly referred to as MediaCorp's first "Ah Jie" (senior actress) for being among the first locally trained artistes and has been in the ent ...

and

Jeffrey Xu Jeffrey Xu Mingjie (born 3 October 1988) is a Chinese actor and host based in Singapore. Career Xu studied performing major at Shanghai Film Art Academy before being discovered through the tenth season of ''Star Search'' in 2010, in which h ...

Personal life

In 2009, Dai applied for Singapore Permanent Resident (PR) status but failed as his academic certificates and birth certificate were not translated to English. He successfully became a Singapore PR in 2014 but lost the status in 2021 after he failed to renew his Re-Entry Permit in time. Dai married actress

Chen Zihan Chen Zihan (born 2 April 1978 as Chen Shasha) is a Chinese actress. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy Beijing Film Academy (BFA; zh, first=s, s=北京电影学院, labels=no) is a municipal public college in Beijing, China. It i ...

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on 19 May 2016.

Filmography

Television series

Film

Accolades

References

External links

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