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There are no small roles, only small actors. Whether it is the male number one or the running dragon set, they all play every role diligently, and one day they can get the affirmation and appreciation of the audience. The actor I am talking about today, born as a railway worker, only entered the Chinese opera at the age of 24, and has been unknown for many years, and the cooperation with Chen Daoming has become popular. Outside the play and his wife love for thirty years, down-to-earth acting, low-key life, he is the strength of the actor Li Hongtao.
There are many famous male actors in Qingdao, Shandong, such as Huang Bo, Huang Xiaoming, Xia Yu, Tang Guoqiang, Wu Gang, Zhai Naishe, Chi Shuai, Wang Yanan, and Li Hongtao is also one of them. He has both the rough mine of Shandong Han and the temperament of a domineering president, the screen image is changeable, any role can be competent, coupled with a rather magnetic voice, which is loved by many audiences.
After graduating from high school, Li Hongtao worked directly without entering the university, working as a railway worker in the Qingdao Railway Bureau, responsible for hooking up the train, a job he did for six years. The work is hard and boring, but it is an "iron rice bowl". Because of his love for literature and art, Li Hongtao applied for art colleges many times during his tenure, but all ended in failure. In 1987, he took the admissions exam for Chinese opera because of unexpected circumstances and did not take the college entrance examination.
Life is sometimes quite dramatic, and after half a year of chinese opera, Li Hongtao received the news that he had studied in Chinese opera. It turned out that it was a class run by Chinese opera and renyi cooperation, and there were not enough students to recruit, plus some people were expelled in violation of the law, so the quota was vacated. In this way, the 24-year-old Li Hongtao became a member of the 87 acting class, and Hu Jun, Wang Ban, He Bing, Xu Fan, Jiang Shan, Han Qing, Chen Xiaoyi and others were classmates in the same class, and now it is absolutely worthy of the name of the "star class".
During his studies in Chinese opera, Li Hongtao played some drama roles, but he did not get the opportunity to shoot. At the age of thirty, he had graduated several years before he participated in his first TV series, and was played by the famous director Wang Fulin Xiangzhong in the 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as "Tai Shi Ci". In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Tai Shi Ci is described as "good at shooting with ape arms, and the strings are not vain", Li Hongtao's version not only has the style of a general, but also performs the character's literary and martial arts double loyalty and filial piety, but it is a pity that his untimely death is regrettable.
Before the age of 37, Li Hongtao had no reputation in the show business circle, and he was once very depressed. In fact, in those years, he also played many roles, such as the "Yue Wang Gou Jian" in "Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Chapter", the loyal Wu Guo doctor "Wu Zixu" in "Sun Tzu", and the simple and amusing "Li Mu Spoon" in the family drama "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin".
The "White Uncle" in "The Gate of the Great Mansion" let Li Hongtao enter the audience's vision, and the "Kangxi Dynasty" cooperated with Chen Daoming made him really taste popular. In this costume drama broadcast sixteen years ago, Li Hongtao played "Kaldan". Disguised as a messenger, he meets the beautiful Lan Qi'er in the main hall and falls in love with him at first sight. In order to alleviate The hunger of Lan Zigger, a Rongfei Palace was built for her.
The love of two people has also become a very romantic chapter in the whole play. Unfortunately, because of the war, Lan Qi'er was sandwiched between her father and husband, and finally separated from the yin and yang of her beloved. Although Li Hongtao's "Gardan" is not much, it is quite brilliant, with the rough and heroic of a big husband, but gentle as water in front of the beloved woman, and the character image is very plump.
As an actor, you have to challenge different roles and feel the five tastes of life in a personal character. In recent years, Li Hongtao has had wonderful interpretations in many popular dramas, such as the sinister and fierce "Cao Sanbai" in "Undercover", the selfish "Liu Shirong" in "Ma Xiangyang Goes to the Countryside", and the atmospheric good man "Zhou Zhenxing" in "Ten Years of Love", acting like what laid the status of his own powerful drama bone.
Accustomed to the examples of abandoning chaff after the entertainment industry became famous, many people scoffed at it. In fact, there are still many good men in the show business circle, and Li Hongtao is one of the representatives. While studying in Chinese opera, Li Hongtao met his wife at a class reunion, who was a teacher and the daughter of a directing teacher. Because they are people in two circles, they were initially opposed by the parents of both sides, and finally love overcame all obstacles. Now, they have been together for thirty years, life is always bumpy and flat, only by supporting each other can we come to the end.
After years of obscurity and a taste of overnight popularity, Li Hongtao, who is now over fifty years old, is still active on his beloved screen. Calm and calm, smiling at fame and fortune, conquering the audience with flesh and blood characters.