Her last widely known role was the Tong treasurer in "The Tale of Wulin" 16 years ago.
She can play ugly without baggage, and she is called "Xiao Dan" by Er Dongsheng and Liu Qingyun.
Many people's understanding of Yan Ni is still at the level of comedy, and some people even say that they naturally want to laugh when they see her.
Tales of The Martial Arts
She does not have the beauty of Zhang Yuqi, does not have the aura of Zhou Xun, she has always been described as mediocre in appearance, and she does not have any talent for singing and dancing.
And she can get to the throne of today's post-view Grand Slam, which can only be said to rely on her business skills that she has honed so much - acting skills.
Yu Baimei described her as "China's most underrated actress."
Ten years of running dragon sets
Yan Ni was born on March 10, 1971 in Xi'an to an ordinary working-class family, with no family art genes, the only difference being that their family lived near the Xi'an Film Studio.
Subtly, many children living nearby have a dream of acting, and Yan Ni is no exception.
Yan Ni was young
In the second year of high school, she and Zhang Jiayi went to the North Film Examination together, Zhang Jiayi was admitted, and she was brushed off.
Subsequently, she was admitted to the Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics majoring in enterprise management, and after 2 years of study, she just happened to encounter the enrollment of the Repertory Theatre of the Political Department of the Lanzhou Military Region.
This time, Yan Ni was finally admitted, became a literary and art soldier, and went to the Performance Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts to study.
Yan Ni (middle)
Her seventy-seven forty-nine difficulties began.
Among the many outstanding literary and artistic female soldiers, Yan Ni not only looks ordinary, but also cannot sing, cannot dance, and has no other talents, she is an unpolished piece of jade.
She has been a non-popular host, played a very small number of drama supporting roles, and also played a serial role, with a total of four lines of dialogue before and after.
She once had a role where she took a pot every day and filled the table with water, and once she asked the director if there was any play of her tomorrow. The director's answer: "That depends on whether the pot is there tomorrow." ”
She's just a tool person who weighs about the weight of a kettle.
She once carried a heavy rifle every day and filmed 30 episodes of the TV series, and finally the TV series was filmed, only to find that she did not have a few shots.
After 10 years of running the dragon suit, she finally met her own destiny - comedy.
Laughter with tears
In 1999, 28-year-old Yan Ni finally became the female number one.
She plays the heroine of "Rooster Crowing, Hen Laying Eggs", although the role is rustic, playing a spicy rural woman, but her acting skills make the country humor very beautiful.
"Roosters Crow, Hens Lay Eggs"
Because of this drama, Yan Ni met the Bole who changed her fate - Shang Jing.
When Yan Ni was the heroine for the first time, Shang Jing was already a judge of the Xia Yan Film literature award, and he discerned Yan Ni's comedic potential.
In 2002, he asked Yan Ni to make a cameo appearance in "The Story of the Cooking Class", and in 2005, he invited her to play "Tong Xiangyu" in "The Legend of Wulin".
With this sometimes charming, sometimes crazy character, 33-year-old Yan Ni was finally seen by people.
While she has brought joy to countless audiences, she is also experiencing the darkest moments of her life.
During the filming of Wulin Waichuan, Yan Ni divorced, she became a single mother, and lived with her 7-year-old daughter.
She once described herself as "like a freak in disguise, always wearing a mask." ”
During the day, he shoots the most hilarious comedies, and in the dead of night, he is alone and sad.
Fortunately, after filming "The Legend of Wulin", Yan Ni survived.
In 2008, Yan Ni starred in "The North Wind That Blows", and she won two TV awards for this drama, the Feitian Award and the Golden Eagle Award.
At the age of 38, she became the oldest girl in history, starring in "The Surprise of the Three Guns Shooting", and after filming, Zhang Yimou even asked Yan Ni, "What did you do when you were in your 20s?" You should have been on fire a long time ago! ”
"Three Guns Shooting Surprise"
Woman forty
In the next 10 years, Yan Ni was indeed very popular.
Her drama path has also become more open, she is the third aunt in "The Great Magician", "Dear" factory flower Li Baoli, "Cooking Woman is also crazy" beauty chef Ah Qin, "Inseparable" sexy royal sister Yang Zong.
The Great Magician
She is the commander of the Eight-Way Army Camp in "Female Army Soul", the psychologist of "The Story of a College Student Soldier", the domineering female president of "One Servant and Two Lords", and Yu Xiaoqiang who fell in love with Hu Ge in "Life Apocalypse".
"One Servant and Two Lords"
From 2011 to 2019, she starred in a total of 35 film and television works. Her acting skills are beyond doubt, and Hu Ge commented on her: "No trick wins and there is a trick."
But her appearance has been criticized.
Shoot life apocalypse with Hu Ge, as a couple to shoot a rival scene, Yan Ni's appearance was complained about by many netizens, and even some people said "Big Mom, please let go of that teenager".
The Apocalypse of Life
Since Yan Ni came to prominence, she has filmed older female characters, after all, she was 33 years old when she filmed the martial arts story. In addition, her heart is also very large, so she went down this path, and did not care too much about her own image.
However, this time "falling in love" with Hu Ge made 45-year-old Yan Ni re-examine her appearance.
In addition to being spat upon by the audience, more importantly, she found that such an image was also an obstacle if she wanted to challenge the big screen (make movies).
Plus her fashion taste is almost zero, once a friend counted her body, there are more than 14 colors together... She went to buy a magazine, and couldn't figure out Vogue's name, even the old man at the newspaper stall was disgusted.
So she began practicing yoga, running, controlling her diet in moderation, reading fashion magazines every day, and cultivating her aesthetic abilities.
"I thought, what is the use of exercise for people my age, but it is really useful, which I did not expect."
In a variety show, everyone found that Yan Ni was different, she became a "leg essence", and the fashion sense of the shape improved linearly.
"Happy Base Camp"
In Lu Yu's interview, when talking about the secrets of weight loss, she was still as calm as ever.
She smiled faintly and said that she had exercised some restraint in her diet, but in fact, she did not feel much changed.
She even said very sheepishly that sometimes I just "fixed the picture" and "put on makeup", and everyone felt that I had changed a lot.
Feel free to love
Yan Ni is like an indisputable lotus, light and comfortable.
Her charm is a temperament that is outside the appearance, relaxed, stretched, and even a little romantic lazy warmth.
After her divorce, all the talk in the play is sister-brother love.
In "The Legend of Wulin", he fell in love with Sha Yi, who was 8 years younger, and in "Beauty Needle", he fell in love with Xiao Xian meat, who was 22 years younger, and later fell in love with Hu Ge, who was 11 years younger.
In real life, she is also a low-key fresh meat harvester.
In 2011, he filmed "Homecoming" with Wang Wei, who was 9 years younger, and filmed a spark of love, and Wang Wei also happened to be Hu Ge's classmate.
Yan Ni and Wang Wei
In 2016, she and the drama actor Wang Qiming, this time the boy was 6 years younger than her, once to the point of talking about marriage, Yan Ni proposed to break up, the other party refused to give up, and finally used more than 20 security guards to ask to leave.
2 years later, Yan Ni began to fall in love with Zhang Duo, who was 11 years younger.
"Sister-brother love" is probably related to Yan Ni's personality.
When she played against Hu Ge, she also followed Hu Ge to "eat garlic, eat vegetarian, and jump on the roof".
In her own words, young people can always take you to do something a little exciting.
She obviously doesn't know football, but she watches the World Cup all night just because "everybody is crazy, and at that moment, I'm willing to immerse myself in it." I also wish my life were like this. ”
Compared with her solid acting skills, the daily Yan Ni is "floating". She is not good at expressing herself, and it is easy to "lose her mind", often being interviewed, chatting about the sky, and floating alone to another dimension.
In real life, she is a little confused in the world, unable to distinguish between east and west, north and south.
She didn't know that there was a billboard downstairs from her house that had been erected for more than 20 years, she didn't know the WiFi password at home, that friends often forgot to reply when they called, and that her driver's license expired for 3 years and didn't notice.
People who have filmed with her invariably call her a fool. She seems to put all her energy, insight, and meticulousness in one place: acting.
Old friend Hong Jiantao reveals Yan Ni's confused personality
The Magnolia Award judges described her this way: "In "Young Pi", Yan Ni hid the most rational analysis of the role in the most emotional performance. As an actress, her performance of the script's second degree of creation is outstanding and impressive. ”
"Young Pi"
Some people can do everything to the extreme, and they are very good in every aspect. And there are some people who put all their talents, energy, and talents in the same place, and Yan Ni is the latter.
She is not really confused, but selectively serious, acting is her destiny.
Yan Ni said in an interview, "If I don't act, I can't do anything anymore, I really love it from the heart." I say from the bottom of my heart that acting is a belief in me. ”
As a mesozoic actress, Yan Ni has had a lonely and nameless 10 years, and has also had a popular 10 years, and the 49-year-old has just taken off the crown of the queen.
She is sensual, cute, and confused, and she still picks peach blossoms for herself when she goes out now, and still looks forward to sweet love.
She said, "Everyone's face will grow old, and cuteness is the most precious quality of a woman." ”
Yan Ni, you are the cutest woman.