70 years old is an ancient and rare year of trembling and nurturing. Many women of this age are retired at home, and square dancing is already an old lady who knows how to live.
The 78-year-old Cao Cuifen is still active in the front line of acting, not only the "grandmother" of the popular small flowers, but also won countless applause and respect in the entertainment circle of Vanity Fair.
She was in good spirits, her face was rosy, and her silver hair was always neatly groomed.
She began her "sister-in-law" image from her debut, and has been playing "daughter-in-law" and "mother", until she met "Know It or Not", became a "grandmother" professional household, and only really became popular at the age of 74.
Cao Cuifen's face is more mature.
When he was young, under the wrapping of collagen, his eyebrows were bent, his face lines were rounded, and his overall appearance was "blunt".
Although she looks kind, this also makes cao Cuifen in her youth stand out in the showbiz circle of beautiful women.
In 1960, 16-year-old Cao Cuifen was admitted to the highest school in the actor's heart, the performance department of the Beijing Film Academy, so that she did not get too many alumni "dividends" from nortel.
After graduating in 1966, Cao Cuifen and her husband, who harbored artistic dreams, not only did not wait for the opportunity to assign jobs, but were sent to a village in Shanxi to grow rice.
Rice was planted for three years, and the harsh conditions did not erase Cao Cuifen's love for acting.
Compared with the actors of the same period, she had many fewer opportunities, and it was not until she was 29 years old that she received the script of the Beijing Film Studio to remake the film script of "Southern Expedition and Northern War" and got the role of "Yonggui Wife".
She looks ordinary, but she has a tenacity in her heart. "I just like acting, I'm going to act." Hold on to this momentum. This role looks ordinary, but the big tree behind the Beijing Film Studio is not ordinary. The year was 1973, and the economy and culture were in ruins. The country is vigorously promoting the development of cultural undertakings, and Cao Cuifen was lucky to catch this train.
The filming of "Southern Expedition and Northern War" took 1 year to shoot, and the film attracted more attention after the screening. Although Cao Cuifen is not the protagonist in the play, her acting skills not only make the audience feel that the "Yonggui wife" is kind, but also paves the way for her to truly pave the way for the show business circle in the future.
After the film caught fire, many directors came to invite Cao Cuifen to participate in their own plays. Due to her inferior age and appearance at the time, most of the roles she received were supporting roles.
Although most of them are such small roles and supporting roles, Cao Cuifen is still conscientious and plays every role well.
She has starred in many films such as "Horn Stone", "Black Triangle", "Look at this family", "Miao Miao", "Throbbing Flame", "Your Smile" and so on, and has been acting for more than ten years.
Her love of acting is immersed in the interpretation of various roles. This "supporting role" career lasted until 1989, from running dragon suits to budding, and the turning point came in 1990.
In 1990, she finally ushered in an important node in her career. Zhang Yimou wants to make a movie "The Red Lantern Hangs High", which happens to have a role that does not lack suitable actors, and Cao Cuifen's friend is an assistant director in this movie.
He thought that the second wife "Zhuo Yun" was very suitable for Cao Cuifen to play, so he introduced her to Zhang Yimou.
At that time, Zhang Yimou was red and purple, and became famous at home and abroad with "Red Sorghum".
However, when trying to shoot, Cao Cuifen was directly denied by Zhang Yimou, who believed that Cao Cuifen's temperament and appearance were not suitable for being an actor, "not good enough", and could not be popular when she was.
However, Cao Cuifen, who had a rare opportunity, did not retreat because Zhang Yimou had to deny it. She approached the assistant director again: "Let me try the play." ”
At that time, Zhang Yimou's other casting was basically finalized, and only Zhuo Yun, the "smiling tiger" with a kind face, was hesitant to do so. Zhang Yimou finally agreed to audition.
Cao Cuifen seems to be kind and kind, and it is easy to play a good person, but it is not easy to perform this "bad person" who looks like a good person.
In order to seize this role, Cao Cuifen added her understanding of the second wife in the audition process, and even committed the director's taboo of "adding lines".
She repeatedly checked the information, repeatedly studied the characters, and felt that she needed to add a line to the script with her rich stage: "Lord, I want to give you a son." ”
In this film of international first-class directors and actresses, she has proved her strength with her superb acting skills.
After the audition, director Zhang Yimou changed his mouth to praise Teacher Cao, saying that Teacher Cao's performance, playing with Gong Li, He Saifei, Kong Lin and others, all of which were natural expressions of sincere feelings, not inferior at all.
For a very confident and superior director, it is very rare to make such a compliment.
In the end, "Hanging High with a Red Lantern" not only allows Gong Li and other actors who have achieved fame to continue to shine, but also allows Cao Cuifen's acting skills to be seen and recognized.
In 2009, the movie "The Six Sisters of Yimeng" made Cao Cuifen nominated for Best Supporting Actress several times at the Changchun Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Films.
She was 65 years old. Zhang Ailing once said that it is necessary to become famous early.
She herself wrote "Legend" at the age of 24, and the entertainment industry is a world for young people to compete for.
Cao Cuifen, on the other hand, has always been "not red". She can be called a drama bone, an artist, but she lacks that "heat" in Vanity Fair until she meets "Know It or Not".
In 2018, Cao Cuifen took over the role of "Know It or Not". In this drama, her performance time is not much, but it is a "famous scene" that she really enters the ordinary family.
Cao Cuifen in the zhiwei crew of the drama bones still makes the audience shine. This year, she was 75 years old. At this time, Cao Cuifen was no longer a young person in the entertainment industry.
The increased wrinkles make many entertainment industry flowers avoid, but it is just in line with the age of "grandmother".
Her crooked eyebrows and kind temperament make the role of Mrs. Sheng more affinity.
The time and place are favorable, all factors are indispensable, and the late success of the big instrument also needs continuous persistence and hard work, and Cao Cuifen has been insisting.
Adhere to their own drama path, adhere to their own pursuits, and adhere to their own actor dreams. Eventually, she found a path and a place for herself in the entertainment industry, where she was severely anxious about her age.
After that, "Qing Yu Nian" and the characters in "Shichahai", although they are all reproductions of the "grandmother" image, Cao Cuifen's performance and drama are natural and do not show traces.
In addition to playing roles in "Qing Yu Nian", Teacher Cao Cuifen also played Zhao Liying's grandmother in the TV series "Know It or Not".
Now she has played Ju Jingyi's grandmother in the TV series "The Legend of Jia Nan", and the image of her kind ancestors who protect their calves has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
At this point, Teacher Cao Cuifen finally has no regrets in terms of heat, acting skills and other aspects, and her acting career is blooming.
Successful women in their careers will always be spied on the harmony of their families, and Cao Cuifen is no exception. Compared with the rich lace news and emotional experience of other actresses, Cao Cuifen's emotional life seems calm and happy. Unlike the "earth-shattering melon" that often breaks out in the entertainment industry, her emotional experience is very flat.
When she graduated in 1966, she married her husband Tan Tianqian. Tan Tianqian is also an actor. The two young people's shared love for acting careers made their married life Qinser and Ming.
In December 1995, Cao Cuifen took over the film "Orphan's Tears", and the crew was stationed in the suburbs of Datong, Shanxi. However, in the process of filming, Tan Tianqian fell seriously ill in Beijing, and Cao Cuifen could not take care of her husband's side, so she had to entrust her family on both sides.
In this film, Cao Cuifen has a lot of crying scenes, and at that time, her tears were shed for the people in the play, and she was worried about her husband who was far away in Beijing. After more than 3 months, the scene was finished, and my husband's condition still did not improve.
Without the drag of children, Cao Cuifen devoted all her energy to performance. In the following 20 years, she starred in a series of well-known film and television dramas such as "Nine-Nine Sunny Days", "Snail Residence", "33 Days of Lost Love", "Children's War" and so on.
After many actresses reach the age of 50, due to the reduction in appearance, there are few scenes, but Cao Cuifen is due to the fit of her own image temperament and roles such as "grandmother", the older and more popular, the drama continues.
Although many viewers believe that Cao Cuifen did not get the happiness of teasing her grandson, her continuous pursuit of her acting career has made her gain more young people's love in her work.
Today's social ideas are gradually opening up, and even without offspring can be equally happy in other aspects. Who says women have to be mothers?
Before becoming a mother, she was first and foremost a person, an independent person with her own love and career.
Outside the play, she has no children and no daughters, but inside the play, she played the mother and grandmother of so many people, and won the respect of many young people in the entertainment industry and the love of the audience.
Who says it's not a success? Who says it's a pity?