Tao Yuling, born on October 28, 1934 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, Chinese mainland actor, graduated from East China Military and Political University. In 1957, he starred in his first film "The Story of Fort Willow". In 1959, he starred in the feature film "Jiangshan Duojiao". In 1964, she played Chun Ni in the feature film Sentinel under Neon Lights.
In 1979, he starred in the feature film "Two Springs And The Moon". In 1986, the feature film "Lucky Man" starring him was released. In 1993, he starred in the feature film "Major Artillery". In 1998, he starred in the rural film "The House of Great Joy". In 2005, he won the 5th Golden Star Award for Outstanding Actor in a TV Series with the TV series "Zhang Peiying"; In the same year, Tao Yuling was awarded the title of "100 Outstanding Actors" by the China Film Performance Society and the honorary title of "Film Artist with Outstanding Contribution" by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of the Ministry of Personnel.
In 2006, he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 15th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards for his biographical film Ren Changxia. In 2010, he starred in the feature film Doctor's Holiday. In 2015, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 33rd Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films. In 2016, he starred in the feature film "The First Big Case". In 2017, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 16th Golden Phoenix Awards of the Chinese Academy of Film Performing Arts. On September 3, 2018, the feature film "Those Women" starring him was released.
Tao Yuling came to Nanjing from her hometown of Zhenjiang at the age of 14, entered the drama team of East China Military and Political University, and was assigned to work in the front-line drama troupe of the Nanjing Military Region after graduation. Her performances cover almost the entire city of Nanjing. The dramas he has participated in include "The Frontline of the East China Sea", "Her Friends", "I Am a Soldier", "No Illness looking for illness", "Eastward Overture" and so on.
Hu Shiyan, the screenwriter of "The Story of Liubao", once worked in the Nanjing Military Region Frontline Repertory Theatre, he had seen Tao Yuling's plays, and he had also been the head of the drama troupe, and felt that she was very suitable for playing the second sister, so he recommended Tao Yuling to the director Wang Ping. "The Story of Liubao" not only influenced Tao Yuling's life, but also made great contributions to the Chinese film industry. On the centenary of Chinese cinema, the film was selected as one of the "100 Excellent Films".
This movie is the first love film in our army to reflect love. Sometimes when I go to Hong Kong and other places to participate in film festivals, some Hong Kong directors and foreign directors are surprised to see this movie and say, "I really didn't expect that China had such a good love film in the 50s." "The Story of LiuBao" was Tao Yuling's first film, when she didn't know anything about movies, and many of the physical actions were improvised thanks to the live inspiration of director Wang Ping.
During the filming process, Wang Ping often asked Tao Yuling to "add some sugar", because the image of the second sister is to be pure, beautiful and sweet. It is precisely because of the "sugar" again and again that the sweetness poured a batch of "second sister fans". After the film was screened, she often received letters from inexplicable audiences, many of which were love letters written to her by the boys at that time, and the screen image of the second sister was portrayed very successfully. However, this sweet "second sister" was not endowed by these love letters, but got along with a young man who also worked in the frontline drama troupe, and married and had children with him, which has been with him to this day.
Behind the scenes, Tao Yuling did not give up her job, and in the early 1960s, Tao Yuling participated in the drama "Sentinel under the Neon Lights" rehearsed by the Nanjing Military Region Frontline Drama Troupe, in which Tao Yuling played Chun Ni. The performance of "Sentinel under Neon Lights" was very sensational, and the whole troupe was invited to Beijing to perform for the leaders of the country at that time, and the members of the troupe were cordially received by the central leaders.
In 1966, Tao Yuling was implicated and had to take off the military uniform she had worn for 20 years and leave her favorite job. After several twists and turns, Tao Yuling came to the Nantong Transistor Factory and became an ordinary worker with two children. But she quickly adapted to the new environment, worked actively, treated people sincerely, and formed a deep friendship with her sisters in the factory. But at this time, Tao Yuling's mental state was very bad, and people were also haggard, feeling that they would not be able to go to the screen again in the future.
In 1978, Tao Yuling, who was already the actor captain of the Frontline Repertory Theatre, entered Beijing with her lover who was transferred to the Ministry of Culture of the General Political Department. Before coming to Beijing, someone reminded her that if you enter Beijing, you will change from the "chicken head" in Nanjing to the "phoenix tail" in Beijing. And after more than 20 years of devolution, marriage and child-rearing, and re-work, the ruthless years have long left the traces of vicissitudes for Tao Yuling, and the pure and sweet "second sister" of that year has also lost the luster of youth. Although Tao Yuling had been mentally prepared for the cold reception she might receive in Beijing, the reality was much harsher than she expected.
After entering the Bayi Factory, the identity of the "second sister" she once had made her quite famous, but she could not bring her a new role. It may also be that the "second sister" is so impressed that the directors do not know how to make the 44-year-old "second sister" face the audience. Some people even said harshly: you still have to put on makeup first, and then try the camera. For a time, Tao Yuling had no drama to play, and she was really going to lose her job.
But she also found that in the acting industry at that time, there were many actresses like her who could not get a role and had no drama because of her "wrinkled face". None of this was directed at her alone, she still believed in her own strength, and she waited silently. So when she received an invitation from director Yan Jizhou to participate in the filming of the movie "Three Missing People", she was very happy. Tao Yuling's role in the film is a female guerrilla with very little role, in fact, she is a mass actor who does not have a single line.
But Tao Yuling cherished this performance opportunity, and her old friend Tian Hua also encouraged her not to give up. From the popular heroine "Second Sister" to the current mass actor without a single line, it can be described as a huge gap, Tao Yuling calmly faced it and began to carefully prepare for this "female guerrilla". When he arrived at the scene, he learned that he only had a shot of "female guerrilla cutting noodles".
Since starring in Sentinel under Neon In 1964, she has been away from the screen for 14 years, and she has no advantage in performance and age. Tao Yuling decided to "beat up her self-esteem and start everything from scratch." Although Tao Yuling's "cutting noodles" shot is very short, it makes director Yan Jizhou very satisfied, and soon Tao Yuling got another role given by director Yan. Although she is still a small mass role, she still performs every action meticulously, and finally won the satisfaction of the director.
Tao Yuling, 44, finally stood up from the role of a mass actor. Since then, she has successively participated in the shooting of many films such as "Erquan Yingyue", "Ruyi", "Ming Girl" and so on. In dong Kena's film "Homecoming", Tao Yuling boldly surpassed herself, playing a mother-daughter role spanning two generations, and the film "River Without Navigation" cooperated with director Wu Tianming won the Best Picture Award in Hawaii. Tao Yuling also participated in the filming of many TV series such as "Once Upon a Time in the Republic" and "Admiral Xu Shiyou".
With the belief that "everything starts from scratch", Tao Yuling finally started a new starting point on the road of performance, and she successively created one simple and kind middle-aged and elderly woman image with a unique style, and once again created her own artistic performance path. On February 17, 2015, Tao Yuling performed the opening "Four Generations Together in the Same Family" on the Spring Evening of CCTV in 2015.
In November 1993, a physical examination revealed that Tao Yuling, who was filming the TV series "The Woman Who Wriggled Across the Man's River", left the crew with regret. She was found to have a malignant tumor in the upper jaw of her mouth, which was a cancer and had to be hospitalized, and she embarked on a 10-year road to fight cancer. Her challenge to the disease was successful. After 10 years of long anti-cancer road, Tao Yuling took her "sucking and sucking" gymnastics and medicine jars (in order not to cause trouble to others when filming, she also brought a medicine jar that can be plugged in), participated in the filming of one movie after another, and the god of death had long been thrown away by her. In 2004, Tao Yuling finally completely recovered her health, and the tenacity and hard work of the "second sister" allowed her to create another medical miracle.
Tao Yuling has created more and more mother images in various film and television dramas. Although she plays the "mother" of the protagonist in the play, she is recognized as the "mother of the masses". Her film "Ren Changxia" won the Huabiao Award. Her role as Ren Changxia's mother in the film was nominated for the Best Supporting Role award at the 15th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards. On the screen, her outstanding performance makes people feel so skilled and rustic. In life, her kind smile made people feel warm and kind, so she went to the army, and the soldiers called her "Mom" affectionately.
She also has many "sons" and "daughters" such as Zhou Lijing, You Yong, Pu Cunxin, Ni Ping, etc. When they see Tao Yuling, they all have to shout "Mom" affectionately first. For the affection of the "children", Tao Yuling was happy and proud at the same time, but also had the idea of challenging the elderly role in her heart. She said: I am willing to play every "mother" who plays the protagonist.
She once had the shining moments of "second sister" and "Chun Ni" who were red through the north and south of the river, and she also experienced the trough of performance without drama. In his old age, when he regained his artistic youth, he was attacked by illness. Faced with the ups and downs of her acting career, she bravely challenged herself to "start from scratch" and gladly starred as a female guerrilla without a single line.
In the face of sudden illness, she challenged the disease again, tenaciously walked the road of fighting cancer for 10 years, and once again returned to the screen she loved. She is the "second sister" who once fascinated hundreds of millions of viewers in the movie "The Story of Liubao" in the 1950s - Tao Yuling, an old artist of Bayi Film Studio. After the screening of "The Story of Liubao", the pure and sweet smile of the "second sister" became a symbol of the youth idol of that era.