Looking back on the glory days of the past, in the long river of showbiz, there have been countless dazzling new stars who have "flashed by", they have beautiful appearances, exquisite acting skills, and they have fully expressed themselves on the screen, which has become a lingering memory in the minds of generations of people.
Although the face will grow old, the time scattered in the film will always freeze Fanghua.
Chen Ye, an actress who was as famous as Liu Xiaoqing in the 1980s, is an actor scattered in these times, how is she doing now when she left when her career was brilliant?
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Chen Ye was born in Shanghai in 1955 to a family of high-ranking intellectuals, with a good family life. Not far from her house is the Shanghai Opera House. As long as Chen Ye stood by the bedroom window, he could see everything inside the opera house.
Therefore, Chen Ye can always see the actors in the rehearsal program, they dress themselves up in various shapes, and the little Chen Ye lies by the window, watching everything and feeling curious.
Sometimes Chen Ye will also learn to hang his throat at home like an actor, and his cute appearance will make his family laugh.
Growing up under the influence of the surrounding atmosphere, Chen Ye planted the seeds of learning to perform in his heart.
After graduating from Shanghai Huashan High School in 1973, Chen Ye was assigned to work on the May Fourth Farm on the outskirts of Shanghai.
All she had to do was paste paper bags, because she was skillful and natural, she always worked hard and exceeded her tasks, and was soon promoted to the director of the workshop.
However, the work on the farm is very hard, not only eight people are crowded in a small room, but the floor is still mud, and Chen Ye, who grew up with dignity, can only sleep with others on a straw bunk, but Chen Ye has never complained about this, holding the idea of both coming and going.
The winter in the suburbs of Shanghai near the sea is very cold, and Chen Ye's mother, who is distressed about Chen Ye, sews cotton clothes for her, so that Chen Ye can barely withstand the bone-chilling cold of winter.
The experience of the May Fourth Farm also exercised Chen Ye's good qualities of hard-working and fearlessness, and luck also followed.
When she was a teenager, Chen Ye had a beautiful appearance, bright eyes and bright teeth, and excellent grades, and in her mind she hoped to enter the university of science and engineering and become a talent for national construction.
But a chance change the direction of her life.
It was 1975, and the Shanghai Film Studio was preparing to shoot the feature film "Unforgettable Battle", selecting suitable actors across the country, and the director took a fancy to Chen Ye in thousands of photos, so he sent someone to the May Fourth Farm to interview Chen Ye.
But Chen Ye, who had no acting experience, was slightly nervous, and could only perform a set of broadcast gymnastics for the interviewers and tell a story called "Daddy's Eyes".
After the interview, the interviewer did not give Chen Ye a specific reply, only let her feel at ease and wait for the notice to leave, for which Chen Ye believed that there should be no chance to appear in the movie.
But soon after, Chen Ye unexpectedly received a letter from the Shanghai Film Studio, which was that the crew informed her that the interview was passed, and asked her to prepare to audition at the Shanghai Film Studio.
During the audition, she was listed as the last candidate, but because the director group thought that she was closest to the temperament of the protagonist "Fan Kejun", she was selected to be the protagonist in the movie "Unforgettable Battle" - the accountant "Fan Kejun"
Therefore, Chen Ye left the May Fourth Farm on the outskirts of Shanghai and officially stepped into the show business circle to become a film actor.
Although Chen Ye often saw actors performing at home when he was a child, he was acting for the first time, and his heart was inevitably very nervous.
During the filming process, the director team followed Chen Ye's good examples and taught Chen Ye what temperament, quality, rhythm, self-feeling, inner experience, external action and other performance elements, which were both fresh and strange to Chen Ye.
However, under the sincere teaching of the director group, Chen Ye gradually mastered the essence and smoothly interpreted the character "Fan Kejun" perfectly in front of the public.
As soon as the movie "Unforgettable Battle" was released, it was well received, and Chen Ye also captured the hearts of many audiences with his beautiful image and fresh acting skills.
The Shanghai Film Studio also saw Chen Ye's talent and made her an extra in the studio.
The Secret of the Axia River
After that, Chen Ye has continuously starred in films such as "The Secret of Axia River" and "Blue Sky Defense Line", although he is only a supporting role, Chen Ye's acting skills are still remarkable and unforgettable under the few shots.
It is also under the tempering of many films that her acting skills are increasing day by day.
Dawn
In the movie "Dawn", Chen Ye played a simple and strong young Red Army female soldier Jin Meiying, Chen Ye vividly displayed the layered sense of the character in the performance.
The right performance made Chen Ye finally officially hired by the Shanghai Film Studio and became a professional actor.
"Dawn" crew
Chen Ye gradually opened up his popularity Chinese mainland.
In 1980, at the invitation of Changchun Film Studio, she starred in the movie "Danfeng Chaoyang", in which she played the heroine Lu Wenfeng.
This is a big challenge, from a young age, lively and active, outgoing Chen Ye and the protagonist "Lu Wenfeng" Wen Jing introverted personality is very different, for this reason Chen Ye more than once stubbornly restrained the real self, in a long period of special study of the role Chen Ye finally grasped the character of the play.
The film has gained a large number of fans for her.
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"Hanging curtains to listen to the government"
Later, he participated in the movies "405 Murder" and "Hanging Curtains" to play a variety of characters, just like "Sun Wukong", as if he had "seventy-two changes".
With the blessing of his acting skills, the beautiful Chen Ye gradually became popular, and his career became more and more prosperous, becoming a famous movie star who could have Liu Xiaoqing in the 1980s.
He has not only starred in many movies, but also has wonderful performances in stage plays, and even served as the host of the Shanghai Spring Festival Gala.
The 1980s were also China's outbound tide, and the "going abroad fever" was set off across the country.
In order to better improve himself, Chen Ye resigned from the Shanghai Film Studio as an actor and went to the United States to study at his own expense, majoring in acting at the Drama Department of Heston University.
During his study abroad, Chen Ye also returned to China to shoot "A Generation of Demon Queens", in which he played Ci'an.
This was also Chen Ye's last film, until 1998, when he participated in the production of the film "Korla Fragrant Pear". Since then, she has gradually faded out of the show business circle.
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During his study in the United States, Chen Ye met her current husband, an authentic American, who worked as a lawyer in the United States as Charlie Foster.
Cultural differences did not become an insurmountable gulf between the two, because Charles had been the president of the Houston chapter of the Asia Society and engaged in Cultural Exchanges between China and the United States, so the two had a good conversation and quickly established a relationship.
In the 1990s, Chen Ye and this American boy were happily married and became husband and wife.
Soon after, two cute mixed-race babies were born, and after immigrating to the United States, Chen Ye's life focus was also placed in the United States.
Because of the birth of the two little guys, Chen Ye also temporarily put down his acting career and returned to the family, although he was in a foreign country, but he had always been concerned about the motherland, so he gave his eldest son Chinese name, Chen Xiake, and gave his younger son Chinese name, Chen Andong.
Chen Ye, who returned to the family, grew up with his son all the way, and has never been absent on important occasions in their lives, recording the bits and pieces of their growth.
But even so, she did not give up the pursuit of acting professional, independently created a script - "Sun Wukong", and told her son that "Sun Wukong" exists in China like "superman", and is more powerful than Superman, and has been instilling Chinese culture in her son.
After the birth of "Sun Wukong", Chen Ye served as a director himself, looking for actors in the United States to play the script, and once the film was released, it received many praises, and Chen Ye used his own way to spread the traditional Chinese culture in the United States.
In the education of his son, Chen Ye has never neglected, not only to educate children not to forget China, but also to keep in mind that China is also their hometown and to love the culture of the motherland.
And Chen Ye also wrote his life in the May Fourth Farm into an English essay, the title was named "My Farm", after careful consideration, Chen Ye made an adaptation on the basis of this article, created a stage play, and played himself as the original self.
Chen Ye showed the past events on the stage in great detail, and the audience could not help but burst into tears, especially the torrential rain on the farm, which washed away all of Chen Ye's daily necessities, but Chen Ye chose not to save them, but the paper bags that he worked hard with his colleagues, and the son saw his mother's hardships in the past, was very touched, and also reflected on himself.
Under Chen Ye's words and deeds, her two sons also became strong, brave and kind people.
As time went on and Chen Ye's children grew up, Chen Yecai finally threw herself into her work, transforming from a performing artist to a social activist, and like her husband, she has been committed to Sino-US cultural exchanges.
Chen Ye has a lot of influence among Chinese americans. Chen Ye's family of four lives happily in the United States.
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In 2020, the global epidemic spread, China initially became the most seriously affected country, Chen Ye in the United States immediately heard the news and her husband organized local Chinese to buy supplies to Send to China, although not in China, but with practical actions to tell the world that she will always love and care for the motherland.
Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festive season to think of relatives, Chen Ye, who has been away for many years, will always think of his hometown in every traditional festival, think of his former friends, and often burst into tears when he misses the depths.
Many of the movie stars who followed the tide of going abroad at that time had a bleak life, but Chen Ye lived a very wonderful life with the qualities he had exercised.
Some people will become more beautiful and dazzling under the precipitation of time, and I think Chen Ye is such a person.
Only by knowing how to make trade-offs can we write our lives perfectly.
Hereby sincerely wish Teacher Chen Ye a safe and healthy life in his old age.