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| Born | Wei Junluo (Chinese: 韋均犖) 2 March 1920 | ||||||||
| Died | 23 November 1968 (aged 48) | ||||||||
| Occupation | Actress | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 上官雲珠 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 上官云珠 | ||||||||
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Shangguan Yunzhu (Chinese: 上官雲珠; Wade–Giles: Shang-kuan Yün-chu; 2 March 1920 – 23 November 1968) was a Chinese actress active from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was considered one of the most talented and versatile actresses in China, and was named one of the 100 best actors of the 100 years of Chinese cinema in 2005.[1]
Born Wei Junluo, she fled to Shanghai when her hometown Jiangyin was attacked by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In Shanghai she became a drama and film actress, and her career took off after the end of the war. She starred in several prominent leftist films such as Spring River Flows East, Crows and Sparrows, and Women Side by Side. After the Communist victory in mainland China in 1949, her career was set back when her husband was embroiled in the anti-capitalist Five-anti Campaign, but she later portrayed a wide variety of characters in many films.
Shangguan was married three times and had three children, but all her marriages ended in divorce. She was said to have had an affair with Mao Zedong, for which she was severely persecuted by the followers of Mao's wife Jiang Qing during the Cultural Revolution, leading to her suicide in November 1968.[2][3]
- ^ 中国电影百年百位优秀演员 [100 best actors of the 100 years of Chinese cinema]. Sina (in Chinese). 13 November 2005. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ Ye, Tan; Zhu, Yun (2012). Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 132. ISBN 9780810879133.
- ^ Xiao, Zhiwei; Zhang, Yingjin (2002). Encyclopedia of Chinese Film. Taylor & Francis. p. 301. ISBN 9780203195550.