There are many marriage and love combinations of actresses and directors in the entertainment industry, among which the well-known director Feng Xiaogang and actress Xu Fan are also widely known. Xu Fan, as a big Green Coat actress who has acted online, is nicknamed "Sister-in-law of the Beijing Circle", and her acting career and emotional experience are very eye-catching.
Xu Fan, born in 1967, is an authentic Wuhan girl. She grew up in a literary and artistic family, and her parents were both Chu opera actors. Whenever he saw his parents performing on the stage, Xu Fan was always envious when he was a child, thus sowing the seeds of the art of performance. With a simple yearning for beauty and art, she ignored her parents' objections and applied for the Hubei Provincial Opera School.
"Three minutes on stage, ten years off stage", perhaps Xu Fan's parents do not want their daughter to follow their own old path, but Xu Fan is a natural performer, and she also learns the Green Jacket in opera. At the age of 12, Xu Fan became acquainted with the stage, and three years later she transferred to the Wuhan Drama School to study drama performance. In 1987, a friend told Xu Fan about the joint organization of classes by the Beijing People's Art Theater and the Central Academy of Drama.
At that time, Xu Fan's mother and herself were not in good health, and after hesitating for a long time, she finally got on the train to Beijing, went to apply for the university and was lucky to be admitted, becoming a college student of the Central Academy of Drama, and becoming classmates with Jiang Shan, Hu Jun, He Bing, Chen Xiaoyi and others.
It was during his studies in Chinese opera that Xu Fan met Wang Zhiwen, who had just graduated from Nortel and came to work at the China Opera Research Institute, and fell for him. Xu Fan, who has always been gentle and elegant, boldly pursued love and even began to chase Wang Zhiwen backwards. At that time, Wang Zhiwen was full of handsomeness and had become a little famous in the circle, and the two handsome men and women quickly fell in love.
Although the love between the teacher and the student was criticized at the time, Xu Fan still loved hotly, and later the two simply lived together. In this relationship, Xu Fan has always lowered his posture and cooked for Wang Zhiwen, just like a newlywed couple. What followed was the fire of Wang Zhi's diploma "Journey to the South", and Xu Fan was also assigned to Beijing Renyi after graduation.
Wang Zhiwen's temper became more impatient, and in a dispute, Xu Fan was thrown out of the house by Wang Zhiwen and threw out her suitcase, and the relationship ended.
Although his feelings were hurt, Xu Fan started his brilliant acting career, and a year after graduation, he served as the heroine of the movie "Big Sa tong", and the screenwriters of this drama are Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong, and the two also know each other.
Unexpectedly, two years later, Feng Xiaogang independently directed the TV series "A Place of Chicken Feathers" and invited Xu Fan to join the crew and play the heroine. The following year, Xu Fan was nominated for the "Golden Rooster Award" for this role.
In the 1998 New Year film "Not Seen, Not Scattered", Xu Fan became the female number one in Feng Xiaogang's lens for the first time, successfully playing Li Qing, a Beijing girl who came to Los Angeles alone to develop, and her partner with Ge You was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
It can be said that Xu Fan's road to fame is inseparable from Feng Xiaogang's help and reuse.
The development of the relationship between the two is also The first time Feng Xiaogang looks at Xu Fan, he pursues her, and when Xu Fan has not yet agreed to him, Feng Dao will see people and say that Xu Fan is his girlfriend. After that, Xu Fan also acquiesced to the identity of her girlfriend, but she did not know about Feng Xiaogang's married life.
At that time, Feng Xiaogang's original wife was Zhang Di, and the two had a daughter, Feng Siyu. Finally, Feng Xiaogang divorced Zhang Di in 1999 and married Xu Fan in September of the same year, and Xu Fan officially became Mrs. Feng.
But after getting married, Xu Fan began to try new performance breakthroughs and made many TV series and movies. In 2000, in the movie "A Sigh", Xu Fan played a wife Xiaoying who was in a marital crisis.
In 2003, she also starred in the role of Xiao Yanqiu in the TV series "Qingyi", and it is reported that when the crew was choosing the heroine, it was also weighed between Xu Fan and Jiang Wenli for a while. Finally, considering that Xu Fan's "half-human, half-drama" appearance is more appropriate to the heroine "Xiao Yanqiu", Xu Fan was determined.
The experience of learning drama and the precipitation of acting skills from a young age have allowed Xu Fan to accurately grasp this role, and more people have recognized her acting skills.
2007 was a year of intensive cultivation for Xu Fan, she not only starred in the drama "Cai Wenji", participated in the New Year movie "Fate Call Transfer", but also filmed two TV series "Wrong Love" and "Love Has No End". In January 2008, the "Beijing Television 2007 Annual Film and Television Festival" sponsored by Beijing Television was held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, and Xu Fan won the title of Most Stylish Actress for her performance in dramas, TV series and movies in 2007.
In 2010, following the cameo appearance in "No Thief in the World", Xu Fan, who had not appeared in Feng Xiaogang's films for six years, starred in "Tangshan Earthquake" directed by Feng Xiaogang.
She played Li Yuanni, an ordinary textile worker, in the film, and won the Best Actress Award at the 5th Asian Film Awards for her outstanding performance in the film.
In 2019, Xu Fan starred in Feng Xiaogang's film "Only Yun Knows". I have to say that Feng Xiaogang knows how to amplify Xu Fan's acting skills, leaving aside the relationship between husband and wife, the two are also the best CP as actors and directors.
But over the years, the public has paid considerable attention to the marriage of Xu Fan and Feng Xiaogang. For example, on the occasion of the ten years of their marriage, Feng Xiaogang's "overnight stay" incident was exposed in February 2009, when he was photographed spending the night with the popular actress Shen Xing.
In this regard, Xu Fan did not show his face and anger, but instead responded generously: "Anyway, our family is a man, and it is not we who suffer losses." And Feng Xiaogang saw that his wife did not tear his face, but clarified for himself, and immediately returned to Xu Fan's side.
Not only that, Feng Xiaogang also held a banquet for Xu Fan in Beijing on the tenth anniversary of his marriage in September of the same year, and invited a total of 50 friends in the circle to participate, which further confirmed Xu Fan's identity as a "sister-in-law in the Beijing circle".
But Xu Fan was asked in a previous interview program with Venus how to view her husband's lace news, and her views are still consistent with the statement when she "stayed at the door overnight", believing that they are a family and that they are calves.
And last year, the couple participated in the publicity activity of "Only Yun Knows" together, when taking photos, Feng Xiaogang reached out to hug the same group of actor Yang Caiyu, Xu Fan quickly went forward to domineeringly block the solution, only to see her immediately hold Feng Dao's hand and pull her husband's hand, while the other also embraced Yang Caiyu, the aura of the lady of the palace.
However, Xu Fan has always been very grateful to her husband Feng Xiaogang, not only because the other party has made her acting career more complete, but also frankly said that Feng Xiaogang took in herself when she abandoned her baby, which has a sense of redeeming her soul. And her tolerant marriage attitude towards her husband Feng Xiaogang may also be the way "Beijing circle sister-in-law" Xu Fan manages marriage.
Xu Fan, now 54 years old, mostly focuses on his family, but he will still appear on the screen, such as the movie "Everything About My Mother" starring with Zhang Jingyi, a 95-year-old flower in September this year.
Her acting skills are becoming more and more sophisticated, and I hope that Xu Fan's future acting career will also bring more surprises to everyone.