VICKI ZHAO
By francisco on 9/12/2008
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Princess of pearl!!! The elegant, sexy, simply beautiful, and "My Dream Girl" Vicki Zhao. One of the most promising actress and singer in China. She produced several albums, one of which was entitled "Swallow"...sounds kinky. She is the official torchbearer of Wuhu(No.29 city) of the 29th Olympic Games, her hometown. By the way, she also has a blog. Here's the address: http://zhaoweispace.blog.sohu.com. My only problem with it is that it's written in Chinese and I don't know how to read it, but the photos there are really great. She really amazes me!!!, If she could have a spare time, maybe we could play some "Shaolin Soccer" so we could be "So Close". I'm also going to show her my not so horny oversplit, upside-down split, and suspended split. Maybe she'll like it.
VICKI ZHAO PROFILE
Name: Vicki Zhao
Date of Birth: March 12, 1976
Birthplace: Wuhu, Anhui province, China
Height: 166cm
Blood type: O
Family: Parents and elder brother
Education: Beijing Film Academy graduate
Language spoken: Mandarin, English and Shanghai & Anhui dialect
Profession: Actress and singer
(Also credited as Zhao Wei, Chiu Mei, Wei Zhao, Wei Wei, Xiao Wei, Xiao Yanzi)
Hobbies: Movies, shopping and swimming
Favourite cartoon character: Snoopy
Favourite colour: White
Favourite food: Chocolate
Favourite author: Zhang Ai Ling
Favourite music: Jazz
Favourite musician: Mozart
VICKI ZHAO BIOGRAPHY
Vicki Zhao is one of China’s top actresses, and is quite a popular singer. Vicki is also famous across Asia since her early career in Princess Pearl series; and later gained some fame in Europe and Hollywood with movies like So Close and Shaolin Soccer.
Vicki Zhao was working toward a teaching career when she was young, but had a desire to leave the small town where she was born, as she didn’t want to live next to her parents forever. Looking for ways to leave town, Vicki scanned for opportunities to enroll in a school in Shanghai, and discovered a new film arts school opened by the renowned director Xie Jin and got accepted after some entrance exams.
Vicki Zhao spent around 3 years in the school, learning acting skills and gained experience as supporting role in Penitentiary Angel, a film directed by Xie Jin.
Vicki left the acting school in 1996 to enroll in the prestigious Beijing Film Academy’s Performance Institute, with first class results in her entrance exam. Vicki Zhao graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2000, but she’s already very famous when she graduated.
Vicki Zhao starred in a couple of dramas after she enrolled into the academy, before landed her breakthrough role as Xiao Yanzi (means Little Swallow in Chinese) in Taiwan superhit drama Princess Pearl (also known as Huanzhu Gege or My Fairy Princess) in 1998.
Princess Pearl or HZGG was a hit in all Chinese regions in Asia, and surprisingly popular in non-Chinese speaking region like Vietnam and Thailand etc.
Vicki Zhao was named as best actress in prestigious Golden Eagle Awards in 1999, the youngest actress to win the award back then; while continue filming the sequel of Princess Pearl.
It’s also in 1999 that Vicki released her first album, in conjunction with the Princess Pearl drama. Riding the popularity of the TV series, her debut album achieved decent success as well, particularly in China.
Feeling that she needed some new challenge, Vicki moved on to big screen in 2000, with movie The Duel which co-starred Hong Kong actors Andy Lau and Ekin Cheng.
Vicki Zhao then starred in Stephen Chow’s big hit, Shaolin Soccer in 2001.
Just as everyone thought that her entertainment career would be unstoppable, her popularity in her homeland China suffered a setback in 2001 when a fashion magazine published a photo of Vicki wearing a dress that resembled a Japanese flag from World War II.
The photo was deemed impropriate and Vicki was even attacked and smeared with feces in a public event after that. (The public had forgiven her on the issue as time passed by; Vicki is now one of China most popular artists)
Vicki’s international fame was however unaffected with the fashion issue, she continued to star in popular movies like Chinese Odyssey 2002, So Close and Warriors of Heaven and Earth.
Vicki Zhao then went back into TV acting in 2005, with movie A Time To Love and TV drama Moment in Peking. Both show received good ratings in China and won Vicki multiple TV awards.
In between her successful acting career, Vicki also managed to release half a dozen of music albums which are quite a hit in China, but only with decent success internationally.
VICKI ZHAO PHOTOS
2 comments for this post
A very well done blog.AlexBrasil.God Bless you.
Do you think that her need about not living eternaly with her parents is upper of her need of independence?Is she agood daughter?Does she have a good relationship with her mother and father?