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Born in 1970 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, Zhang Jiayi's interest in acting has long been established as an early stage of his experience in performing at the Shaanxi Song and Dance Theatre.
In 1987, the talented Zhang Jiayi was admitted to both Shangju and Beiying, and finally he chose to enter Beiying.
In his junior year, Zhang Jiayi, who had excellent grades, was invited to participate in the movies "Nie Rongzhen" and "Magic Watch".
Among them, in the science fiction film "Magic Table", Zhang Jiayi plays a little boy who "grew up overnight" and became an adult, which is also the earliest surviving picture of Zhang Jiayi's works.
Despite his good acting talent, Zhang Jiayi's teacher still gave him a preventive injection in advance:
Your image is limited, and after graduation you may not play the main role, more of a supporting role.
But, you have to stick to it.
In 1991, after graduation, Zhang Jiayi was assigned to return to his hometown and enter the Xi'an Film Studio.
As the teacher said, he was mainly a supporting role in the following years, and nortel's experience did not make him really popular.
Although he was almost a supporting role for the next 10 years, Zhang Jiayi still stabilized his mentality and acted steadily, and there were many brilliant highlights in this supporting role career.
In 1994, he starred in the movie "Back to Back Face", which has a quasi-top rating of 9.5 points on Douban so far.
In 1997, Zhang Jiayi and Feng Gong collaborated on the film "Ambush", which also impressed many people.
Two years later, Zhang Jiayi joined the crew as an executive director in the "12.1 Shooting Case", which ranked second in the "Douban Unpopular Mainland Drama" list, and the rating was as high as 9.3 points.
After graduation, Zhang Jiayi has not served as a starring actor many times, but he has faced the status quo with a sober attitude and continued to take over the role with a peaceful attitude.
And all his efforts slowly paid off with a decision he made at the age of 30.
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In 2000, Zhang Jiayi left his hometown of Xi'an to go to Beijing, and two years later, he moved his family to Beijing for his career.
North Drift means hard work, but it also means more opportunities.
At this time, the 30-year-old Zhang Jiayi had obviously more opportunities, and he began to receive important roles in some film and television dramas, and enhanced the audience's popularity with one work after another.
Zhang Jiayi's screen style during this period can be described as diverse, including costume roles (Ping Trace Xia Ying), anti-war characters (double gun Li Xiangyang), and more urban husband image (halfway couple) that made him popular in the later period.
In the short drama "Doctor Pamir", which is based on a real case, Zhang Jiayi interprets the deeds of Dr. Zhibian with excellent acting skills, which makes him win a 9-point drama again.
Under the paving of this series, Zhang Jiayi, who has accumulated a lot of money, officially ushered in the opportunity to become popular in 2009.
That year, he played the controversial "bad guy" Song Siming in the TV series "Snail House".
The drama has become an annual hit with controversial and spicy themes, and the male protagonist Jiayi has truly achieved popularity.
In the following years, Zhang Jiayi, who was originally recognized for his acting skills, began to win awards.
Among them, in 2011 and 2013, he won the Magnolia Emperor twice with "Borrowing a Gun" and "Sinking and Floating", and in 2012, he was also nominated for male supporting actor with the spy drama "Cliff".
The audience is getting better and better, the industry is more optimistic, and Zhang Jiayi's career has entered the fast lane.
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After people really became popular in middle age, Zhang Jiayi did not immerse himself in the spotlight, he was very sober about his current position in the show business circle, and then insisted on himself by constantly taking on plays.
To this end, Zhang Jiayi once described himself like this:
To say that the good point is dedication, and to say that it is ugly is to be crazy.
When filming, the stubbornness of xi'an people came up and they could not eat for a day, drink water and smoke.
So, at that time, Zhang Jiayi could be "crazy" to what extent, the data is very intuitive to explain everything...
Take 2014 as an example, in that year he had a total of 12 film/TV series works launched, it can be said that spring, summer, autumn and winter have him.
Among them, there are some works with excellent reputation, such as "One Servant and Two Lords" cooperated with Yan Ni, a fellow villager in Shaanxi.
This life-filled TV series finally achieved excellent ratings results, and Zhang Jiayi gradually established the image of a middle-aged good man.
In that year, Zhang Jiayi also appeared in films such as "Private Order" and "Return".
Even jumping out of these 12 works, Zhang Jiayi also served as a voice actor (character Wei Zhuang) in the animation "Qin Shi Mingyue" in the same year, and even ran to "I Am a Singer" to show his voice.
It can be said that in 2014, this uncle was crazy and busy.
Zhang Jiayi's screen brushing performance is not unique in 2014, and in 2017, he let the media shout out the slogan of "Zhang Jiayinian".
In that year, Zhang Jiayi had a total of 6 works online, of which 5 he was the male protagonist who picked the beam.
In the first half of the year, the epic masterpiece "White Deer Plain" starring him and the police drama "Undercover Return" were broadcast at almost the same time.
In the second half of the year, there are "Emergency Room Doctor" and "My! Physical Education Teacher", "Born on a Brilliant Day", "Hunting Ground" (cameo) and other four dramas before and after the foot on the line.
With the continuous "good man" image brush screen this year, people gradually stripped the image of "Snail Residence - Song Siming" from Zhang Jiayi, and he also began to have a series of praises such as "National Good Husband" and "National Good Father".
With the following of such a drama, Zhang Jiayi's acting career is firmly nailed to the front line, and the national popularity has reached its peak.
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Let's change the story from another angle, why did "Zhang Jiayi", who is now the peak of his career, change his name to Zhang Jiayi?
Many media combined with his physical condition in the previous two years, they made a speculation that was supported by many people:
May be related to physical causes
The media has also demonstrated the credibility of this view from multiple angles.
After the crazy 2017 Zhang Jiayi, the actor significantly reduced the frequency of taking on the scene in the following two years.
In 2018, he "only" produced 2 works, and in 2019, the number of works increased slightly, but only launched a few dramas such as "Young Pi".
When Zhang Jiayi took photos with passers-by during that period, the images of gray hair and gray in the plain state also caused concern.
Subsequently, Zhang Jiayi's history of ankylosing spondylitis for more than 20 years was also turned over by the media, and it was rumored that his illness was quite serious in the two years of 18-19.
Zhang Jiayi once talked about this medical history in an interview, saying that he had to get up earlier than others when filming, rinsed with hot water to alleviate the disease, and even needed injections and medicines.
During the media speculation, Zhang Jiayi Studio also hinted in a euphemistic way that the actor did have "pain".
Under the support of these two major reasons, the mainstream speculation version of many media is that this middle-aged male god changed his name to help his condition gradually improve his own "chong xi".
Regarding the rumors of this name change, Zhang Jiayi himself did not respond, but from various experiences, the old drama bone's twenty years of enduring persistence are indeed very difficult.
Fortunately, after changing his name, he continued to show the image of a middle-aged warm man in front of the screen, and his acting career also climbed to the peak again with dramas such as "Loading stage".
In 2021, Zhang Jiayi broke the nomination record of the male actor of the Magnolia Award with a cumulative six-time nomination for the Magnolia Award, which attracted the CCTV official call.
Nowadays, Zhang Jiayi, who is over 50 years old, is already a popular "middle-aged uncle" of all ages in the field of Chinese opera.
In general, from the obscure but constantly accumulated experience of the "small supporting role" in the early years, to now become a male god who has continued to be popular in his career, Zhang Jiayi's "strength" has the following four reasons.
First of all, the output of extremely intensive works, so far in his acting career, Zhang Jiayi has participated in more than 160 film and television works, and the total number of episodes has exceeded 1,000 episodes early.
Among them, he swept the screen with 12 crazy works in 2014, and the image of the showbiz model has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Secondly, under the multitude of works, Zhang Jiayi has established a reputation with his excellent acting skills.
Whether it is Song Siming, a charming character who is loved and hated in "Snail Residence", or Yang Shu, a driver who "everyone wants to marry" in "One Servant and Two Lords".
Or Diao Shunzi, the uncle of northern Shaanxi who still maintains an optimistic attitude after experiencing the hardships of life in "Loading the Stage", Zhang Jiayi's screen image is still vividly remembered.
So far in his career, Zhang Jiayi's works with a score of more than 8 points have reached a total of 25, including some 9-point works, which also exemplifies the excellent quality of Zhang Jiayi's works from the side.
The third reason lies in Zhang Jiayi's "good man" image inside and outside the play, which is also a major basis for his audience popularity.
Zhang Jiayi married his current wife and actor Wang Haiyan in 2007, and the two have been in love ever since.
Zhang Jiayi, who has been in the show business circle for many years, has always had zero scandals after marriage, and in an interview, Zhang Jiayi, who "loves" his family, has repeatedly talked about his love for his family.
He even said in the form of ridicule that his love for his family eventually "evolved" into a status inferior to that of a pet dog at home.
Such an example not only reflects the cute side of this middle-aged uncle, but also reflects his good man image.
The last and most important reason lies in Zhang Jiayi's sober attitude for decades.
In the early years, Zhang Jiayi was forced to play supporting roles for more than ten years due to image and other reasons, and it was not until the age of 39 that he really became popular.
But looking back on this experience now, he cherishes the past:
I never admitted that I was a late bloomer, I was fine when I was younger.
Since I entered the industry, I have always had dramas, and I have always had the recognition of people in the industry, and I have not mixed well.
In past experiences, he did not dwell on what he had lost, but was grateful for what he had gained.
Living transparently, he has been taking on plays for decades, and finally waited for his own opportunity, Zhang Jiayi's "sobriety", I don't know how many Chinese stars today blush?
In the show, Zhang Jiayi once talked about his life goal: to be a performance artist when he was 60 years old.
From today's point of view, he who has always "not forgotten his original intention" is striding on this road...
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