On August 7, 2020, at the 26th Shanghai TV Festival Awards Ceremony, Tao Hong won the crown of Best Supporting Actress of Magnolia with the TV series "Little Joy".
Many viewers said that Tao Hong easily did not shoot, and he ran to get the award as soon as he shot it.
For many years in the industry, Tao Hong has starred in many film and television dramas such as "The Eight Precepts of the Splendid Pig in Spring", "Say Good and Don't Break Up", "The Emperor of Han Wu", "Red", "Little Joy" and so on.
These film and television works in which Tao Hong participated, whether she is the protagonist or a supporting role, have one thing in common: the reputation of the drama is very good.
Industry insiders say she "has the strength of a first-line actor, but does not have the ambition of a first-line actor." ”
Tao Hong said, "Whether you have strength or not does not have to be revealed, you know in your heart whether you have strength or not, it is enough." ”
From a synchronized swimming champion to an actor, Tao Hong has achieved dazzling achievements in different fields;
From the "little dragon girl" to Xu Zheng's wife to Xu Xiaobao's mother, Tao Hong's life is very happy.
However, she always had an unknown and permanent debt in her heart.
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Tao Hong, a native of Jiangsu Province, was born in 1972 to a very good family in Wuxi City, and moved to Beijing with her parents when she was two years old.
Since childhood, Tao Hong has a cheerful and lively personality and loves to laugh, and her parents also pay great attention to cultivating her interests and hobbies.
Learning to draw and learn to dance is naturally not a problem.
However, Tao Hong's favorite is swimming, the water is cool, often soaked in the water is good for the skin.
This is Tao Hong, the simplest idea of childhood.
However, what Tao Hong did not expect was that because of swimming, she suffered a lot.
At the age of 11, Tao Hong became a member of the Beijing Synchronized Swimming Team.
At that time, the synchronized swimming team was in backward condition and poor infrastructure, and the team often had to rent venues everywhere for training.
Every day, Tao Hong and her friends, under the leadership of the coach, go to different places to train, they are like little ducks, jumping into the water again and again, performing, getting up again, and jumping again.
Winters in Beijing are bitterly cold and the water temperature is low, and the team members train in the water for at least six or seven hours a day.
Soaking in the water all day, everyone's lips were frozen white, and as soon as they came ashore, they shivered and grabbed the coach's hand to warm up.
The coach also hurt the little girls, but the conditions are limited, and they can't do anything about it.
Every time Tao Hong and her friends stood up from the cool water, the coach would put a piece of chocolate in each of them' mouths to help them increase their calories.
In the past, Tao Hong felt that the skin was soaked in the water, and now that he was soaking in the water all day, people were swollen.
What is more difficult is that no matter how cold the water is and how stiff the body is, you must do some difficult tricks.
Her mother learned that Tao Hong's training was very bitter, and she often secretly wiped her tears at home in pain.
Parents have also proposed, "If you don't forget it, don't practice." ”
Tao Hong was very stubborn and said that he must continue to practice, he had been practicing for several years, and he gave up on his previous achievements.
The parents knew the nature of their daughters, and they did not interfere anymore.
The synchronized swimming team, at that time, was recruited by the same batch as Tao Hong, and there were more than 150 people. More than half of them go home after months of training.
In those years, every month there were teammates leaving, and Tao Hong only felt that there were fewer and fewer teammates.
When she was in her 4th year of practice, there was only one girl who was still training with her.
This year, that classmate couldn't hold on any longer, leaving Tao Hong alone. This practice is 10 years.
The sword blade came out of the grinding, and the plum blossom fragrance came from the bitter cold.
Tao Hong had been sharpening his sword for ten years, and finally waited for the time when this sword came out of its sheath.
At the 1993 National Games, Tao Hong won the synchronized swimming championship with her outstanding performance.
This year Tao Hong was 21 years old, ten years of hard training, in sports, she finally realized her dream. But what's next? She hadn't thought about it yet.
A very fortuitous opportunity made Tao Hong embark on the road of acting.
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In early 1993, Jiang Wen, who played and directed you, was preparing for his film debut, "Sunny Day".
There is a girl in the film, Yu Beibei, and Jiang Wen's requirement for this role is not only to be able to swim, but also to swim well.
To meet such a requirement, you can only go to the swimming team to pick, so Jiang Wen went to Tao Hong's swimming team.
Among the dozens of girls, Jiang Wen fell in love with Tao Hong at a glance.
Not only is she well-proportioned and well-proportioned, but her face is also full of the sunshine confidence of a young girl.
After entering the group, Tao Hong's performance surprised Jiang Wendu.
Although she has not studied acting or filmed, her comprehension is very strong, and it does not take much effort to tell her about the play.
Jiang Wen said to the reporter who came to visit the class, "This girl is clever, don't look at her as an athlete, acting but not losing to others at all." ”
"Sunny Day" was released, and many people did not see that this was the first time that Tao Hong had no acting experience at all.
This experience gave Tao Hong a lot of confidence, and she also wanted to see if she could do anything other than swim.
So in the next year, Tao Hong applied for the Beijing Film Academy and the Central Academy of Drama, and the last two schools admitted her, and she chose Chinese opera.
Tao Hong not only has good academic performance and high understanding, she also has an easy-going personality and good popularity, and Duan Yihong, who is in the same class, secretly fell in love with her for a long time.
However, at this time, Tao Hong had no intention of falling in love, and she was bent on laying a good foundation and learning the basic skills of acting.
In her junior year, Tao Hong starred in "Black Eyes" directed by Chen Guoxing.
This is based on the true story of Ping Yali, the first gold medalist at the Continental Paralympic Games.
As the female number one, Tao Hong plays a blind woman who was selected by the sports school to become a disabled athlete.
With the experience of the synchronized swimming team, plus the first time to pick the girder, Tao Hong completely immersed herself in the role.
After that, "Black Eyes" won her the Best Actress Award, the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, and the Huabiao Award for Best Actress at the 10th Damascus International Film Festival.
In the same year, Tao Hong also graduated from the Central Academy of Drama with great honors, and she was assigned to the National Drama Theatre.
At the age of 26, when others are eager to sharpen their heads to become famous and popular, Tao Hong enjoys working and living in the drama theater very much.
In her opinion, the filming time of the crew is not fixed, staying up late, sometimes encountering some bad weather, but also must catch up with the progress.
In the drama theater, the work and rest time are very fixed, and there is no need to work too hard.
While acting in dramas, Tao Hong often receives other film and television invitations.
In 1998, Tao Hong took over the costume TV series "Spring Brilliant Pig Eight Commandments", and met and fell in love with the male number one Xu Zheng.
Xu Zheng is a native of Shanghai, the same age as Tao Hong.
For Xu Zheng, Tao Hong's evaluation is quite high, she believes that Xu Zheng is a very talented person, talent is more attractive to her than appearance.
At the same time, she said, "We are both equally rational and have the same views on many things." Most importantly, I feel like he and I have a common language and we can talk on an equal footing. ”
Although Xu Zheng graduated a few years before Tao Hong, and he won the Magnolia Drama Award at the age of 26, Tao Hong did not have the looking up of a little girl, only a heads-up view.
Tao Hong also said that she will appreciate and admire a person, but will not worship the other person.
In 2003, in the fifth year of love, Tao Hong and Xu Zheng held a wedding.
She also moved her family from Beijing to Shanghai, from a Beijing girl to a Shanghai daughter-in-law.
After another five years in the world of two, Tao Hong became pregnant with her daughter in 2008.
The arrival of new life is also accompanied by the aging of parents.
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Pregnant in October, Tao Hong, like all new mothers, is both excited and expectant and a little uneasy, always worried that any negligence will make her daughter lose something.
However, half a month before her daughter was born, Tao Hong's mother fell ill and she was diagnosed with cancer.
Tao Hong, with a big belly, kept contacting the hospital to arrange surgery for her mother.
It is inconvenient for you to be physically inconvenient, and it is unrealistic to want to take care of your mother. Tao's father was guarding in the hospital, he was not in good health, and he seemed to be unable to do so.
You can ask a nurse and a nanny, but for Tao Hong, no matter how intimate and careful and professional, she can't replace her daughter.
It is better to ask someone to take care of it than to personally stay in front of the hospital bed.
When her daughter was about to be born, Tao Hong had to endure her worries and concerns about her mother and try to calm her mind.
Her mother was not discharged from the hospital, and Tao Hong gave birth to her daughter Xu Xiaobao.
Xu Xiaobao was not yet one year old, and her mother's postoperative effect was not satisfactory, or she died.
Tao Hong was very remorseful, and she felt that when her mother looked at her when she died, she hoped that her daughter would save her.
In fact, at this time, the mother's cancer cells have spread, and even the most clever medical skills are powerless.
However, as a daughter, Tao Hong deeply blamed herself in her heart, and she always felt that she did not continue to save her mother, and her mother died.
After her mother passed away, Tao Hong made up for her filial piety to her father.
She took her father to live with her, and she hoped that his father could spend his old age in peace and spend more years with herself, so that her regrets would be less.
However, only two years had passed since this life, and Dad had fallen down due to a heart attack and never got up again.
This time Tao Hong blamed himself even more.
Obviously, her father lived with her, but when he fell ill, she was not around, and she failed to send her father to the hospital in time, so that it caused permanent regrets.
Her parents have died one after another, and Tao Hong has been in self-blame and regret for a long time, and she suffers from depression.
She always wanted to go back to the day when her father fell ill, accompany him, and take him to the hospital in time when he was uncomfortable to save his father.
Looking back on that time many years later, Tao Hong still had tears in her eyes and could not calm down for a long time.
In fact, people have a lot of emotions, even people who are close to them cannot fully empathize.
When Tao Hong blamed himself and was sad, Xu Zheng was also very unhappy, he was sad about losing his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and he was also worried about Tao Hong's mood.
In those years, Tao Hong only occasionally participated in a few plays, acting in a few supporting roles.
It was not until 2014, when her daughter was six years old, that Tao Hong starred and took over the spy TV series "Red".
This year, Tao Hong is 42 years old, playing a young girl in the play, with eyes and posture, but there is no sense of violation at all.
"Red" has a very good reputation, and Tao Hong once again proves with strength that as long as she wants, she will definitely be excellent and outstanding.
However, after "Red", Tao Hong disappeared into life again, until 2019's "Little Joy" returned again.
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Tao Hong rarely takes over the role, especially after Xu Zheng transformed into a supervising director, Tao Hong has become her husband's right hand.
She jokingly called herself Xu Zheng's spare tire, "He wants to direct what scenes, what subjects to shoot, and we often discuss who can be invited to act." ”
For the female characters in the film, Tao Hong said, "As long as someone comes to play, I will not participate." If the other party can't make it up, I can always top it. ”
Unlike many couples in the circle, although Xu Zheng has produced a number of high-grossing films, he and Tao Hong have not cooperated in many film and television dramas.
Tao Hong is Xu Zheng's spare tire and his strong backing.
In addition to taking care of her daughter and the female roles that can be on top at any time, Tao Hong's professional ability is also obvious to all in the show business circle.
Huang Bo, who has worked with Xu Zheng many times, once said, "If those films let Tao Hong direct, she will not necessarily do worse than Xu Zheng." ”
Tao Hong herself is a very talented and thoughtful person, but she does not have too much ambition for her career and has always hidden herself.
However, Tao Hong, Xu Zheng, an old couple in the show business circle, has countless crises in the eyes of the outside world.
As early as 2012, Xu Zheng was photographed eating with young women, driving each other home, and behaving ambiguously.
At that time, a reporter interviewed Tao Hong, and Tao Hong said his thoughts very frankly, "Formal loyalty and inner loyalty are two different things."
In her opinion, as long as the husband is loyal to himself in his heart, "those things that are physical and physiological are not called anything." ”
The reporter further asked, "As a husband, you must take care of your wife's feelings, be loyal to the marriage, and be loyal to your wife, isn't this the minimum?" ”
Tao Hong replied, "But from the perspective of 'man', who he loves is his freedom, and all people are equal." A relationship and loyalty have nothing to do with it. ”
Such an open mind is also relatively rare.
Although Xu Zheng has had several scandals, his marriage boat with Tao Hong has been sailing smoothly for nearly 20 years and has been as stable as ever.
On August 6, host Cao Kefan posted a group photo of watching a drama. Among the group, there is Tao Hong.
She is wearing simple blue jeans with a burgundy simple shirt, although she does not look like a big star, but the photo shows that Tao Hong is in a very good mood.
Some people also say that "the little dragon girl is also old", in fact, Tao Hong is 50 years old this year, not a little girl, and can naturally grow old, and there is nothing to blame.
As an ordinary person, Tao Hong has starred in many film and television dramas and enjoyed the fame and fortune of being a star;
As a star, she is not in a hurry to shoot dramas, she puts more time and energy into her life, and enjoys the real life that some stars do not enjoy.
Life is a mixture of five tastes, sweet and bitter, happy, and regretful, which is also everyone's ordinary life.