Zhao Tao

Person Details

Birthday: 1977-01-28 12:28:55

Aliases: 赵涛

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Taiyuan - Shanxi - China

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Movie Involvements: 16

TV Involvements: 1

Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Zhao Tao (Chinese: 赵涛, born 28 January 1977) is a famous Chinese actress, work in China and Europe, she has over 10 films to her credit since starting her career in 1999, muse of director Jia Zhangke. Zhao first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Jia Zhangke and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe, especially Italy. As Shun Li in Io sono Li, her best starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at David di Donatello. Zhao's native language is Jinese, but she is multilingual, having learned to speak Italian, Mandarin and Szechuanese. Biography She was born January 28, 1977, in Taiyuan, Shanxi, which is also the hometown of the heroine in Still Life. As a child, she studied classical Chinese dance. In 1996, she enrolled in the folk dance department at Beijing Dance Academy. After graduation, she became a dance teacher in Taiyuan Normal College, where she was spotted by Jia during casting for Platform. Since then they work frequently together. In 2011 she starred in the Italian movie Shun Li and the Poet by Andrea Segre, the movie was screened in the Venice Days section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Zhao won the David di Donatello Award, the Italian Oscar, for Best Actress for her bilingual role.

Most Famous Work

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2018	Zhao Qiao	Ash Is Purest White 2018-09-21 Movie
	History Teacher	An Elephant Sitting Still 2018-03-08 Movie
2017	N/A	Where Has Time Gone? 2017-10-19 Movie
	N/A	Revive 2017-06-15 Movie
2015	Shen Tao	Mountains May Depart 2015-10-30 Movie
	N/A	Smog Journeys 2015-01-22 Movie
2014	Self	Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang 2014-10-20 Movie
2013	Xiao Yu	A Touch of Sin 2013-10-04 Movie
2011	(segment "Alone Together")	3.11 A Sense of Home 2011-11-04 Movie
	Shun Li	Shun Li and the Poet 2011-09-23 Movie
2010	Blue Goddess	Ten Thousand Waves 2010-10-13 Movie
	Self	I Wish I Knew 2010-09-24 Movie
2009	Hong Yu	大生活 2009-03-18 TV Show
2008	N/A	Remembrance 2008-11-29 Movie
	N/A	Black Breakfast 2008-10-23 Movie
	Su Na	24 City 2008-09-27 Movie
	N/A	Cry Me a River 2008-07-11 Movie
2007	N/A	Our Ten Years 2007-09-29 Movie
2006	Shen-Hong Guo	Still Life 2006-09-12 Movie
	N/A	Walking on the Wild Side 2006-03-24 Movie
2004	Tao	The World 2004-09-01 Movie
2002	Qiao Qiao	Unknown Pleasures 2002-06-06 Movie
2001	Yin Ruijuan	Platform 2001-08-29 Movie
	N/A	We Shall Be All Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv