Winston Chao

Winston Chao
Born
Chao Wen-hsuan

(1960-06-09) 9 June 1960 (age 64)
OccupationActor
Years active1993–present
AwardsLily Award for Best Actor
2006 Those Were the Days
SIFF Award for Most Popular Actor
2007 Road to Dawn
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese趙文瑄
Simplified Chinese赵文瑄
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhào Wénxuān
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingZiu6 Man4-syun1

Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet and Kabali. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose and Eat Drink Man Woman, and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997), Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011). His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace of Desire, the biographical mini-series The Legend of Eileen Chang (2004), the historical drama Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel Cold Nights (Han ye, 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011). He acted in the Indian Tamil film, Kabali (2016), in a villainous role opposite Rajinikanth. He has also appeared in the English-language films Skiptrace (2016) and The Meg (2018).