Jiang Wenli

Jiang Wenli

Born: June 20, 1969
in Bengbu,Anhui Province,China
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.

Movies for Jiang Wenli...

Hidden Strike
Title: Hidden Strike
Character: Professor Cheng
Released: July 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Two elite soldiers must escort civilians through a gauntlet of gunfire and explosions.
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Magic 7
Title: Magic 7
Character: Ma Zheng
Released: June 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Eric, a former football star and now coach for a Chinese league team, ends up in a small village after being falsely accused of corruption. A young boy saves him from near death in the desert and requests that in exchange he coaches the local team and takes them to the junior cup final. At first only preoccupied by saving his reputation, Eric slowly comes around and rediscovers his passion for football thanks to the young players.
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Title: The Corner of Love
Character: Fang Ling
Released: March 9, 2023
Type: TV
The story of Fang Ling, a white-collar worker in a divorced city, with her son, and Chen Juyi, an elite man who is also divorced with a daughter. They accidentally live in the same new house and fell in love with each other.
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Title: The Dance of the Storm
Character: Ruan Tai Yuan
Released: April 27, 2021
Type: TV
Through a series of missions, a man discovers that the people he has been working for has unspeakable connections to dangerous organizations. Through the help of his love interest, they piece together clues to uncover the truth. As a child, Li Jun Jie grew up under the loving care of his parents. He led a life that was the definition of a happy family. His parents were top scientists but when he turned twelve, they suddenly died in an accident in Pin Cheng. After becoming an orphan, Li Jun Jie is sent back to his hometown of Chong Hai. Rumors that his father betrayed his own country started spreading and his relatives refused to take him in. Left without a home, Li Jun Jie is sent to an orphanage where he meets Shi Yun Hao. They become the best of friends and through the recommendation of Chen Gang, they enter a security agency as new recruits. The two meet and fall for Zhou Zi Xuan.
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No. 7 Cherry Lane
Title: No. 7 Cherry Lane
Character: The Woman in Yellow (voice)
Released: September 2, 2019
Type: Movie
Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.
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Midnight Diner
Title: Midnight Diner
Character: Ms. Jin
Released: August 30, 2019
Type: Movie
When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Patrons enjoy home cooking and delicious stories at a master chef's small, overnight, counter-only restaurant.
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The Secret of China
Title: The Secret of China
Character: Song Qingling
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: 影响:改革开放40年的中国电影
Released: November 19, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: The Story of Zheng Yang Gate
Character: 徐慧真
Released: October 16, 2018
Type: TV
The Story of Zheng Yang Gate
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Nice to Meet You
Title: Nice to Meet You
Character: Dorm Keeper Wang
Released: March 29, 2018
Type: Movie
Love stories of students in a re-preparing school for college entrance exams.
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挟刀揉手
Title: 挟刀揉手
Character: 自己
Released: December 18, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: 花儿与远方
Character: 郝玉兰
Released: October 3, 2017
Type: TV
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Our Time Will Come
Title: Our Time Will Come
Character: Mrs. Shen
Released: July 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
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Title: Table π
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Hey, Kids
Released: October 18, 2016
Type: TV
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Distance
Title: Distance
Character: Xie Hong
Released: May 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.
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Title: Trump Card
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Keep the Marriage as Jade
Released: January 10, 2016
Type: TV
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The Final Master
Title: The Final Master
Character: Master Zou
Released: December 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Determined to pass down his art, the Final Master of Wing Chun is caught in a power struggle with malicious local officials and ultimately must choose between personal honor and his master’s dying wish.
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Title: Three Soldiers
Character: Mother Xiao
Released: July 12, 2015
Type: TV
In the 1970s, three completely different young people were in the revolutionary melting pot of the army: one was determined to be a fighting hero, the other vowed to rise to the top of the army, and the other was a scumbag soldier. The three of them walked into the same barracks on the same day, ate the same meal, made the same quilt, and walked the same goose steps, but because of their differences in personality, motivation, and worldview, they had various conflicts with each other.
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The Beautiful Kokonor Lake
Title: The Beautiful Kokonor Lake
Released: June 21, 2015
Type: Movie
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The Left Ear
Title: The Left Ear
Character: Xu Yi's mother
Released: April 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Li Er, a 17 year old girl who has great difficulty hearing out of her left ear, is rejected after confessing her love to a boy, Xu yi. Instead the boy is in love with Li Bala, a girl who is in fact in love with Zhang Yang. Li Er befriends Li Bala, who dies due to an accident. As the movie progresses, Li Er overcomes her hatred of Zhang Yang, whom she blamed for Li Bala's death.
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Love On The Cloud
Title: Love On The Cloud
Character: landlord's sister
Released: December 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
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Title: 女人帮
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: 娘要嫁人
Character: 齐之芳
Released: March 27, 2013
Type: TV
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Love for Life
Title: Love for Life
Character: Cook
Released: May 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find love with each other by their misfortunes.
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Title: 幸福来敲门
Character: 江路
Released: February 20, 2011
Type: TV
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Major Secretary
Title: Major Secretary
Released: October 26, 2010
Type: Movie
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Lost Indulgence
Title: Lost Indulgence
Character: Li
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
After a car accident which kills him, the wife and son of a taxi driver take in the injured prostitute he was driving.
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And the Spring Comes
Title: And the Spring Comes
Character: Wang Cailing
Released: October 23, 2007
Type: Movie
In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career.
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Title: Golden Marriage
Character: 文丽
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: TV
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The Winter of Three Persons
Title: The Winter of Three Persons
Released: November 13, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: The Grand Mansion Gate
Character: Bai Yuting
Released: September 4, 2005
Type: TV
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All the Invisible Children
Title: All the Invisible Children
Character: Song Song's Mother (segment "Song Song and Little Cat")
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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Title: Silver Age
Character: wen li
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: TV
Wu Si tries to make a high budget independent film and gets into a great contradiction and confusion.
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Title: Hero of the Year
Character: 谭艾琳
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: 中国式离婚
Released: August 10, 2004
Type: TV
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My Bittersweet Taiwan
Title: My Bittersweet Taiwan
Released: April 7, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: 非常公民
Released: December 10, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Black Ice
Character: 汪静雯/鲁晓飞
Released: June 26, 2001
Type: TV
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The Gua Sha Treatment
Title: The Gua Sha Treatment
Character: Jian Ning
Released: May 11, 2001
Type: Movie
The painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese guasha/scraping treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes and debates on cultral prejudice and false philanthropy.
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Title: The Grand Mansion Gate
Character: 白玉婷
Released: April 14, 2001
Type: TV
This Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Ching dynasty. The affairs of this family of doctors/pharmacists (which in those days were one and the same) are intimately linked with social upheavals of the time such as the encroachment of Christian missionaries and foreign imperialism as well as conflicts that inevitably emerge in a large upper class family. Comparable in scope and production value to such recent titles as "Downton Abbey", the lives and character of both masters and servants intertwine in plot lines that spans more than a generation.
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Title: 警戒线
Character: Li Jingwei
Released: February 20, 2001
Type: TV
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Female Coach & Male Player
Title: Female Coach & Male Player
Released: August 30, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Qian Shou
Released: April 9, 1999
Type: TV
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Mr. Zhao
Title: Mr. Zhao
Released: August 15, 1998
Type: Movie
Mr. Zhao tells the story of a philandering doctor living in Shanghai. His infidelity gets the best of him, however, when his mistress Tian Jing (Chen Yinan) announces she is pregnant, while his wife learns of his affair but refuses to grant a divorce
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Title: 日落紫禁城
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: TV
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Cat's Eye
Title: Cat's Eye
Character: Miss Ou
Released: August 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.
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Title: Daichi no Ko
Released: November 11, 1995
Type: TV
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The Story of Xinghua
Title: The Story of Xinghua
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Xinghua lives with her husband, who makes money by selling stones from the Great Wall. But she is unable to give him a son to inherit this wealth. When her husband hatches a plan to tear down the local historic fortress to find a legendary hidden treasure, she finds herself drawn to a gentler, more educated man who wants to preserve it.
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Farewell My Concubine
Title: Farewell My Concubine
Character: Xiao Douzi's Mother
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled "Farewell My Concubine" that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo's explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
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Family Portrait
Title: Family Portrait
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
After laying bare backward village mentalities in Bloody Morning, Li Shaohong turns her attention to China’s urban middle class. Cao is a photographer, married to an opera singer and with an infant son, caught in the usual professional morass of political compromise. His life starts to fall apart when he learns that his ex-wife also bore him a son some months after their divorce – and when the boy turns up looking for his father. Nothing wildly dramatic, just believable people in believable situations. If the ending seems a touch forced, this is nevertheless a sign that ‘Fifth Generation’ cinema is changing and coming to terms with up-to-date realities.
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A Mysterious Couple
Title: A Mysterious Couple
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A film by Li Ziyu.
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The Diary
Title: The Diary
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In the early 1930s, a young man leaves Shanghai to come to Europe and reunite with the love of his life.