Celebrity, seems to be an ancient word, the encyclopedia said, this is a name originated from ancient times, in the 1930s popular title, generally refers to those famous, talented, and often in and out of the fashion social field of beautiful women. In addition, they contribute to society and are passionate about charity.
Modern celebrities also have fashion, celebrity and social wealthy people, including returned rich people or returned children, or status earned by their own efforts.
Looking at today's fashion industry and celebrity world, which one can be called "celebrity"?
Zhou Caiqin, 86, who played "Daughter of Shanghai", can be.
Who is Zhou Caiqin?
She is the first Chinese "007 State Girl".
She was the first Chinese academician of the Royal Academy of Drama.
She was the first "returning" expert to return to China to teach at the Central Academy of Drama (1980).
She was the first Chinese actress to appear on the stage in London's West End, England.
The first Asian actor to lead the stage play in London and New York, and the first Asian actor to feature neon names outside the theater.
She was also the first Chinese singer to publish a record in Both Chinese and English in the UK, with the English version of "Second Spring" topped the charts in Asia for two consecutive years.
The first Chinese actor to be nominated for Best BRITISH TELEVISION Actor...
So many firsts, we may not know, but we have seen ... She has acted in "Geisha Returns";
She played Jia Mu in the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Back 66 years ago, the drama "Suss Yellow's World" starring her swept London.
Dyed black hair, wearing a Chinese cheongsam and almond eyes, British women called her a "bomb of one meter and five meters tall", and the fashion circle rushed to imitate her makeup.
"I hope that the SuSi Huang you know can be as good as the Su Si Huang played by Cai Qin"
Such art reviews flooded the press, and her fire surprised herself
At the cocktail party, the tall American woman would point at her and say:
"What a cute little Chinese doll she is! I really wanted to take her home and put her on the mantelpiece! ”
Then, she was favored by the master Antonioni and participated in the movie "Magnification", and her appearance at a glance firmly grabbed the attention of everyone.
In "Thunder Valley", she starred as a beautiful and poisonous Chinese doll, playing a rival role with Sean Connery.
Then, she broke into Hollywood from London and starred in the "007" series of movies, becoming the first Chinese-American bang girl, 30 years earlier than Yang Ziqiong, who starred in "Empire of Tomorrow" in 1997.
At that time, London was popular with the saying that "men have Bruce Lee, women have Zhou Caiqin".
Then, she had her biggest success since her career: in 1972, she was nominated for the British Film and Television Actors Guild for best television actor for the role of Wang Guangmei in "Objects of Struggle".
This performance made her an artist in the eyes of the world.
There is an old Chinese saying that prosperity will decline.
Zhou Caiqin, 40, shifted her focus to investment, and as a result, the economic crisis came.
This crisis has wiped out all her property, the 4 houses she owned have also become floating clouds, and her soaring acting career has also fallen into a trough overnight.
Her mother died again.
Unable to withstand the blow, Zhou Caiqin committed suicide by taking sleeping pills and was subsequently sent to a mental hospital.
In the darkness, she lay for 17 days, alone in bed, thinking repeatedly about the determination to survive, the courage to regenerate.
She repeatedly looked at a watch given to her by her mother before going to England, and under the sun, the circle on the small dial flashed gold, as if her mother in heaven was looking at herself, and she realized the truth of life:
"She seemed to be saying to me that I shouldn't waste this life that she had carefully created and nurtured. Although the trunk was cut down, the big tree could not die. ”
Zhou Caiqin came back to life, she left sadly, ran to Los Angeles, usa, and worked odd jobs everywhere: to work as a foreman in her brother's restaurant; to pack envelopes in Harvard's dormitory; to sort out the archives of Harvard University's School of Science and Art; to work as a typist in an insurance company...
In more than 12 hours of day-to-day labor, no one knows the glory she once was:
"Boxer Ali was her guest, British Labour Leader Jonathan was proud to be in love with her, and Elizabeth became her best friend."
However, no matter how heavy the work, it could not stop her from having a dream in her heart.
With a little respite, she went to Tufts University to study theatre, then returned to London to join the Cambridge Theatre Club – she found a new job to earn a living.
Although the cambridge drama club actor's highest weekly income is only $90, it has put Zhou Caiqin back on the stage — she has the opportunity to play the heroine in "Orestea" and "The Red Letter".
On the stage of "The Red Letter", the heroine Hester Brandan played by her just appeared on the scene, which caused the audience to laugh - because the novel's Branda is a tall Scottish woman, and Caiqin is so petite and has an oriental face.
But after a few minutes, the audience was not afraid, because no one had ever played the complexity of Bai Lan so vividly.
She's shining again!
Then she went to Harvard for night classes, studied Shakespeare's plays, and went to Tufts University for a master's degree, seeking rebirth on her favorite stage.
She used her acting skills to conquer American audiences again and again.
In 1993, at the age of 57, Zhou Caiqin bravely broke into Hollywood, and together with Yu Feihong and Wu Junmei, she starred in the first film in Hollywood history starring all Asians, "Happy Luck Club", which caused a sensation in the United States.
For the first time, "Xifuhui" made Hollywood face up to the real Chinese image, and Zhou Caiqin won glory again, known as Hollywood's "Chinese godmother".
At the age of 80, recalling that time, Zhou Caiqin sighed:
"Before the age of 40, I was a girl, and you experienced it before you felt the inner strength, and I was so strong." "That was the lowest point of my life, and it was also the time when I was most motivated and the most powerful."
Before going to Britain, the words that his father Zhou Xinfang said to Zhou Caiqin were also the last words that Zhou Xinfang said to his daughter.
You have to always remember that you are a Chinese.
So, when she rose again in Hollywood at the age of 46, Cao Yu and Mr. Jinshan invited her to return to China to teach, and she agreed without half a moment's hesitation.
Although at that time, her parents were gone, and her home was gone. But Zhou Caiqin said:
"But I am a daughter of China", "I am a daughter of Shanghai".
Zhou Caiqin is indeed the authentic "daughter of Shanghai", and her father is Zhou Xinfang, a famous Chinese Peking Opera master.
Her mother, Qiu Lilin, was the first lady on the beach in the Republic of China, and Qiu Lilin's father, Qiu Yangshan, owned both Qianhe Tea House and Zhihe Qianzhuang.
Because of this background, Zhou Caiqin was sent by her parents to the Royal Academy of Drama in London, England, at the age of 17 (at the same time, her father was on his way to the ice-cold North Korea to comfort the volunteer army. ）
After returning to China, Zhou Caiqin was active on the stage until the age of 86.
In 1998, Zhou Caiqin starred in "The Golden Boy" on Broadway, and she became the only Asian actor to lead the role in a Broadway stage play.
After watching the stage play "Golden Boy", Chen Chong was moved to death by Zhou Caiqin's acting skills:
"Cai Qin's great-grandmother is unforgettable, her sadness, her persistence, her humor, her ridiculousness, vividly expressed."
In 2006, Zhou Caiqin starred in "Memoirs of a Geisha". Sharing the stage with gong li and Zhang Ziyi, several top actresses in the Chinese world, and also contributing to the classics in the history of cinema;
Over seventy years old, Zhou Caiqin played Jia Mu in the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber";
In 2016, Zhou Caiqin cooperated with Jay Chou in "Amazing Demon Bandit Group 2", playing Jay Chou's grandmother.
In May this year, Zhou Caiqin starred in "Lucky Grandma", in the movie, she did not obey the old, both action scenes and various humorous bridges;
In 2001, Zhou Caiqin was awarded the Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and was subsequently hired as the first Chinese academician by her alma mater, the Royal Academy of Drama in London.
Heidi Rama, the mother of CDMA and WI-FI, said:
People with great ideas will be knocked down by those who have the smallest thoughts Even so, you must have great ambitions.
Something that takes years to build can be destroyed overnight. Even so, you have to build.
Give the world your best and you will be devastated. Even so, give the world your best.
Zhou Caiqin, who did this, had ups and downs in her life, but was never defeated, and the best art she could dedicate to the masses until the age of 86.
When the reporter interviewed her, she said this:
"When I went out when I was 17 years old, my mother told me that you have to fight for Chinese, you have to fight for actors, you have to fight for women! Now that I'm almost 80 years old, I'm going to fight for the elderly, so I haven't retired until now. ”