William Chan, born on November 21, 1985 in Hong Kong, China, with his ancestral home in Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, is a Chinese film and television actor, singer and host, graduated from St. Joseph's English School in Hong Kong.
In 2003, Chen's family contacted him at a university in the United States, but he wanted to develop into singing and dancing. He prepared to participate in the Global Chinese Rookie Hong Kong Trials and assured his family that if he did not win the first place in the auditions, he would accept his family's arrangement and go to the United States to study. At the end of the competition, Chen Weiting won the first place, after which he signed with Emperor Entertainment.
In 2004, after graduating from high school, Chan gave up the opportunity to go to college in the United States and stayed in Hong Kong.
In June 2006, Chen Weiting formed the Sun Boy'z group with Zhang Zhiheng and Mai Zihao as a new member, and began to establish the image of a dancing singer and enter the show business circle.
In April 2008, Sun Boy'z group was officially disbanded; in September, Chen Weiting released his debut music album "Will Power", with which he won the Gold Award for the Most Popular Male Newcomer at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards and the Gold Award for the Most Promising Newcomer in Hong Kong'Chinese s Top Ten Golden Melodies.
On July 17, 2009, Chen Weiting's second music album "Warrior Warrior" was released; on the 24th of the same month, the Hong Kong police film "Eavesdropping" was released on Chinese mainland; in the same year, he twice participated in the national version of oriental satellite TV's "Dance Forest Conference", and served as a contestant to show his dance skills.
In March 2010, Chen Weiting played the film and television star Qin Lang in the romantic comedy film "Beautiful Secret Order"; in April, he released his third music album "Do You Wanna Dance"; in June, he starred in the love movie "Qiandu"; on December 6, his fourth music album "Heads or Tails" was released.
In March 2011, chen Weiting starred in the film "The Woman Who Cheated" as an exhibit at the 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival; on August 25, he launched his fifth music album "WOW"; in September, Chen Weiting attended the award ceremony in the new metropolitan area of Hong Kong and won the "Top Ten Health Stars" in 2011.
On July 10, 2012, Chen Weiting's sixth solo music album "Pop It Up" was released; in November, the gangster action movie "Za Job" starring him was released, in which he played Ah Ting, a high-achieving college student.
In 2013, Chen Weiting shifted his focus to Chinese mainland, and at the end of February, he took over the filming of the costume martial arts drama "Four Famous Arrests of the Youth"; in July, he officially signed the mainland TV drama contract to Arnold Studio, and at the same time took over the filming of "Ancient Sword Qitan".
In January 2014, the disaster movie "Firefighting Hero" was released, Chen Weiting won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Macao International Film Festival for playing the role of Zhang Wenjian; in July, his costume fairy idol drama "Ancient Sword And Strange Tam" won the first place in the national TV drama ratings of the same period during the broadcast, and the average number of hits per episode on the Internet exceeded 150 million, while Chen Weiting was also well known by mainland audiences for the role of Master Brother Lingyue, and won the most popular all-round artist of the year and the most anticipated actor of the tv drama media of the year at the National Drama Festival. He was also nominated for the Best Supporting Actor at the Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Awards; on November 25, he won the Best Young Actor Award at the European Vientiane International Chinese Film Festival for his role as the rebellious and stubborn lost young man Xue Keyong in the inspirational comedy film "Men Can't Be Poor", and was also shortlisted for the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Macao International Film Festival, which was subsequently released in the mainland on December 24.
On February 4, 2015, the Republic of China idol drama "Living Colors and Fragrant" began to broadcast the national network rating of 3.43, breaking the record for the premiere of TV dramas in the past ten years, with 107.31 million network broadcasts on the first day, and two episodes exceeded 100 million, refreshing the network broadcast volume record on the first day of the mainland TV drama network broadcast, Chen Weiting played An Yichen, which was his first appearance in a Republic of China drama; on March 17, the costume martial arts drama "Four Famous Arrests of Teenagers" landed on Hunan Satellite TV, and Chen Weiting played the pursuit of heavy love and righteousness. This is the first costume drama filmed in the mainland;
On May 11, Chen Weiting was listed on the 2015 Forbes China Celebrity List, ranking 70th; on June 5, the action movie "Fighting Maze" starring in the film was released, in which one person played a triangle, on the 16th released EP "Wait", a total of 4 songs, its pre-order sales exceeded platinum figures; on September 22, Chen Weiting starred in the costume fairy drama "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan War" premiered on iQiyi, in which he played the talented male protagonist Ding Yin/Ding Dali/Blood Demon, The backstage broadcast method of the drama broke the mode of taiwan network linkage and video website follow-up, and the cumulative playback volume of iQiyi network exceeded 2 billion; on October 26, Chen Weiting personally participated in the song "1121" created by quzhan for the world premiere.
On January 16, 2016, the starring Xian Xia drama "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan Battle Chronicle" was broadcast on Anhui Satellite TV, the average rating of CSM35 City was 1.053, the average rating of CSM52 City was 0.976; on February 24, the urban love drama "Because Love Has Happiness" was broadcast, Chen Weiting played Su Kaiwen, a university lecturer with a sense of justice and independent thought, and accompanied the drama with a record ending song "I Want to Hold You"; on April 6, the urban love drama "Happiness" premiered on Tencent VIP. Chen Weiting plays He Han, and the drama was broadcast on Shenzhen Satellite TV on June 23;
On July 4, the Republic of China suspense drama "Old Nine Doors" starring him was broadcast in the Oriental Satellite TV Weekly Theater, Chen Weiting played the bold and insightful Zhang Qishan, and sang the theme song "My Door" for the drama, which triggered a high degree of network popularity and topic heat after broadcasting, ranking first in the ratings of the same period for a long time, its Weibo derivative topics accumulated more than 15 billion times, the network broadcast volume exceeded 10 billion, becoming the first self-made drama in the history of the whole network to break 10 billion, and Chen Weiting also became the topic figure of the major hot search lists;
On August 5, the single "W Project" was launched online, the first day of the release of the song ranked at the top of the major music charts, only 12 hours on the line broke the 10 million hits; on the 6th, the romantic comedy movie "That Crazy Little Thing Called Love" starring Chen Weiting was screened in a movie city in Shanghai, with a single box office of nearly 310,000, refreshing the highest box office record in the country, he played the editor Jiang Yang in the play, the film was released nationwide on August 12, and in August, Chen Weiting's "Inside Me" tour was held. This is his first solo tour; on September 30, the all-live-action CG magic movie "The Trace" was released, in which he played the cruel and cold-blooded netherworld.
On January 27, 2017, Chen Weiting debuted on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, with his partner Lu Han singing the song "Love You for 10,000 Years"; on April 24, Chen Weiting entered the Madame Tussauds Shanghai Wax Museum as Zhang Qishan, becoming the first artist to enter the Madame Tussauds Shanghai Wax Museum in a film and television role; on July 13, he starred in the costume fantasy plot drama "Drunken Linglong", in which he played the deep-minded and conceited Western Wei Prince Yuanling, and sang the theme song "Because of You" for the play.
On February 15, 2018, he once again appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, where Chen Weiting performed the song "The Best Stage" with Huang Bo and Zhang Yixing; on March 17, he participated in the iQiyi variety show "Hot Blood Street Dance Troupe" as a hot-blooded convener; on March 25, he starred in the urban emotional drama "There Are Trees in the South" on the air, in which Chen Weiting played the yapi bar owner Shi Fan and sang the theme song "Lucid Dream" for the play; on April 28, he starred in the magic movie "God of War" Released, he played the upright and pure young Temujin in the film, a young temujin with strong martial arts; on September 17, he starred in the urban criminal investigation drama "Orange and Red Years", in which he played Liu Ziguang, a hot-blooded young man who burned inspiration; on October 26, Chen Weiting participated in the movie "The Great Bombing" in the Form of an online release in the United States, in which he played the role of Air Force pilot Cheng Ting; on October 21, as the legendary founder, he participated in the youth inspirational song and dance competition program "The Voice of Chinese Dreams • The Legend of the Next Station".
On February 4, 2019, Chen Weiting appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and at the party, he sang the song "I Struggle, I Am Happy" with Jackie Chan and Deng Lun; on September 23, Chen Weiting's single "My Lady" was launched; in the same year, Forbes China Celebrity List ranked 23rd. On November 8, the participating night urban reality chase reality show "Chase Me" was broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV.
On January 24, 2020, Chen Weiting, Zhang Yixing and Dong Baoshi performed the song and dance "New Year Disco" on the CCTV Spring Evening; on August 7, the fantasy movie "Samurai Order" directed by Li Weiran and starring Chen Weiting and others released the trailer of the "Covenant of the Present World" version and announced the finalization; on September 30, he participated in the 2020 CCTV National Day Gala "Ode to the Chinese Dream, Ode to the Motherland" - 2020 National Day Special Program, and sang the song "Guardian" with Zhang Shaohan, Zhang Bichen and Xia Lio; on October 30, he joined Chen Kun and Announced the finalization of the song. Zhou Xun co-starred in the fantasy movie "Samurai Shodown" scheduled for February 21, 2021; on December 4, the second film in the Juju series starring Zhou Xun, "Feast in Cold Blood", was broadcast on Tencent Video.
On February 11, 2021, he participated in the "2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala", and performed the opening song and dance "All the Best" with Tong Liya, Jiang Shuying and other guests; on April 25, the urban spy drama "Storm Dance" starring Gulinaza was launched, in which he played Li Junjie. On September 21, he participated in the "Bay Area Rising Moon" 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film Music Gala, singing the song "Walking the Road of Life". In the same year, he starred in the movie "The Tempest". On October 1, he participated in the "Chinese Dream , Ode to the Motherland - 2021 National Day Special Program", singing the song "Youth" with Ren Jialun, Huang Weiyi and Wu Qilong;
On October 1, the MV of the Theme Slogan promotion song "Together to the Future" of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, co-performed by Chen Weiting, Yuan Yawei, Pang Qing and Tong Jian, was officially released; on November 10, the costume TV series "Lady Hu Zhu" starring Chen Weiting was broadcast; on November 19, the TV series "Illuminate You" starring Zhang Ruonan was launched, playing Jin Shichuan, the station manager of the Fire rescue special service station. On December 21, 2021, Jiangsu Satellite TV's second wave of lineup announcements for the New Year's Eve was officially announced, and Chen Weiting participated; on December 31, he participated in "Departure 2022 - CCTV New Year's Eve Party"; and participated in the reality show "HahahahahaHa Season 2".
On January 31, 2022, he participated in the "2022 Spring Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television Corporation" and performed the opening "Happy and Auspicious Year".
Chen Weiting is not as tight or tight as many young idols, his kindness and sincerity have repeatedly broken through the barrier of "Chinese is not good", which on the one hand represents the quality of professional artists, on the other hand, it also represents another upward style of young idols.
He is very good at doing things, very dedicated, never late, sometimes filming will be late, he will do his best to show the best state. Costume drama will have some action scenes, many of which he put on himself, and did not say that this is not ok and that is not ok. I think this young man is very self-motivated.
He is not ostentatious, does not hesitate, and strives to do what he should do, but also enthusiastic about public welfare, and even his fans follow the idol to do public welfare, which shows the positive influence of high-quality idols. His workload has exploded, and he still insists on fitness every day to get enough physical fitness to maintain a good silver screen image. For the more and more action shots encountered in the filming, he believes that the actor's personal presence is a kind of respect for the audience, and it is also a dedication to him. He also did not give up his musical dream as an idol singer and actor, with good looks, willing to endure hardships, humble and polite to people, full of positive energy; at the same time, he is constantly trying to hone his acting skills and strive to move towards a powerful singer and actor.
In the eyes of the public, Chen Weiting is not only a powerful actor, but also his achievements as a singer are really eye-catching. Chen Weiting, who is good at singing and dancing, successfully held three 10,000 concerts in 2016, and the singles released swept the source list many times, winning sales awards and music awards. Being able to be invited to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for three consecutive years is the greatest recognition of Chen Weiting's super strength and influence. In order to be able to show the most perfect work in front of the people of the whole country, he often meditated on the arrangement of the program at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, no matter how hard the crew worked to shoot the scene, the scene was immediately put into the creation of the arrangement after the shooting. With his attitude of diligence and dedication, he showed us an idol of positive energy strength with a clean and clean source.