Zhao Tao
Actor
- Born
- January 28, 1977 (age 49) · Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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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.
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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.
Known for
A Touch of Sin
October 4, 2013
Ash Is Purest White
September 21, 2018
Mountains May Depart
October 30, 2015
Still Life
November 16, 2006
Platform
August 29, 2001
The World
September 1, 2004
Shun Li and the Poet
September 23, 2011
Caught by the Tides
November 22, 2024
24 City
September 27, 2008
Unknown Pleasures
June 6, 2002
I Wish I Knew
July 2, 2010
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
May 27, 2016
Acting24
- 2026Torino Shadow
- 2024Caught by the Tides as Qiao Qiao
- 2018Ash Is Purest White as Zhao Qiao
- 2017Where Has Time Gone?
- 2017Revive
- 2016Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang as Self
- 2015Mountains May Depart as Shen Tao
- 2015Smog Journeys
- 2013A Touch of Sin as Xiao Yu
- 2011Shun Li and the Poet as Shun Li
- 2011