Jiang Wenli
Jiang Wenli was born in a highbrow family. Her father was a railroad engineer, her mother was a railroad telephone operator, and her parents love literature and art. Since Wenli was a little girl, her father taught her to read famous book and painting, and listen to famous 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 didn’t fit the standard of a gymnast, the coach of Bengbu city gymnastic team refused to regard her as a formal team member. After that, she spent five years to practice as an informal team member of the gymnastic team. At the age of 17, she took the college entrance examination and regard going to normal university as her goal. However, she got accepted by a water conservation secondary school because her score was five points lower than the acceptance line of the normal university. In 1986, she graduated from the secondary school and starts to work in Bengbu City Water Company. Her job was to design ways of water transportation for residents. Nevertheless, she was not satisfied with her current life and decided to go to Beijing in 1988 and start her new life. Without any preparation, she got accepted by Beijing Film Academy. After become a student of film academy, there were countless film companies inviting her to play role in their films. Her first role was a nursery school teacher in a TV series named The Lily on Cliff, and this TV series won the Feitian TV Awards of that year. Also, she was a candidate for Best Supporting Actress Reward. After this, she played Shuixiu in a movie named Li Li Yuan Shang Cao, and this film won the award from French film festival. The last film of her college period was The Story of Xing Hua, and she played the girl named Xing Hua. After graduate from college, she went to America for a long time and then returned to China to continue her career. After came back to China, she played a role in Miaomiao Liu’s movie *Who you think you are. In 1993, she played an important role which is Chengyi’s mother in movie Farewell My Concubine,and this movie won the Best Movie Award at French Cannes Film Festival of that year. In 1999, she played a 20 episode TV series named Lead by the Hand, and this helped her won the highest honor of Chinese TV industry, Best actress from both Golden Eagle Awards and Feitian TV Awards. In 2000, based on the outstanding performance in film Team Spirit,she won the best actress from Huabiao Film Awards. In 2001, movie The treatment made her career even more successful. In 2011, the TV series When Happiness Knocks became a huge success in her career. This TV series is broadcasting on CCTV-1, which is the most important channel in China. Also, the average audience rating was 3%, which is on the top of other TV series in the whole country.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Hidden Strike as Professor Cheng
- 2023 · Magic 7 as Ma Zheng
- 2023 · The Corner of Love as Fang Ling
- 2021 · The Dance of the Storm as Ruan Tai Yuan
- 2019 · No. 7 Cherry Lane as The Woman in Yellow (voice)
- 2019 · Midnight Diner as Ms. Jin
- 2019 · The Secret of China as Song Qingling
- 2018 · The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up as
- 2018 · The Story of Zheng Yang Gate as 徐慧真
- 2018 · Nice to Meet You as Dorm Keeper Wang
- 2017 · 挟刀揉手 as 自己
- 2017 · National Treasure as 窦太后
- 2017 · 花儿与远方 as 郝玉兰
- 2017 · Our Time Will Come as Mrs. Shen
- 2016 · Round Table as
- 2016 · Hey, Kids as
- 2016 · Distance as Xie Hong
- 2016 · Trump Card as
- 2016 · Keep the Marriage as Jade as
- 2015 · The Final Master as Master Zou
- 2015 · Three Soldiers as Mother Xiao
- 2015 · The Beautiful Kokonor Lake as
- 2015 · The Left Ear as Xu Yi's mother
- 2014 · Love On The Cloud as landlord's sister
- 2013 · 女人帮 as
- 2013 · 娘要嫁人 as 齐之芳
- 2012 · 开讲啦 as
- 2011 · Love for Life as Cook
- 2011 · 幸福来敲门 as 江路
- 2010 · 第一书记 as
- 2008 · Lost Indulgence as Li
- 2007 · And the Spring Comes as Wang Cailing
- 2007 · Golden Marriage as 文丽
- 2006 · The Winter of Three Persons as
- 2005 · The Grand Mansion Gate as Bai Yuting
- 2005 · All the Invisible Children as Song Song's Mother (segment "Song Song and Little Cat")
- 2005 · Silver Age as wen li
- 2004 · Hero of the Year as 谭艾琳
- 2004 · Chinese Style Divorce as
- 2004 · My Bittersweet Taiwan as
- 2002 · 非常公民 as
- 2001 · Black Ice as 汪静雯/鲁晓飞
- 2001 · The Gua Sha Treatment as Jian Ning
- 2001 · The Grand Mansion Gate as 白玉婷
- 2001 · 警戒线 as Li Jingwei
- 2000 · Female Coach & Male Player as
- 1999 · Qian Shou as
- 1998 · Mr. Zhao as
- 1998 · 日落紫禁城 as
- 1997 · Cat's Eye as Miss Ou
- 1995 · A Son Of The Good Earth as
- 1994 · The Story of Xinghua as
- 1993 · Farewell My Concubine as Douzi's Mother
- Future · The Diary as
- 1992 · Family Portrait as
- 1991 · A Mysterious Couple as