As an excellent actor, Zhang Yan has participated in many classic works, from "Laughing at the Wind and Cloud" to "Pink Girl", and then to "Parents' Love", "Romantic Things", "Divorce Guide", "A Hundred Years of Ups and Downs" and so on, all of which have left a deep impression on the audience.
When she was popular, with her outstanding appearance and elegant temperament, she was not only loved by the public, but also became a goddess in the hearts of countless fans and audiences!
After her career developed, Zhang Yan married a Hong Kong husband who was 6 years older than her, although the other party's career development was not as good as hers, she still followed the other party with all her heart, and even retired for the sake of the family after marriage!
After so many years, how is the smash hit actress Zhang Yan now? Is her married life happy?
One
Zhang Yan, formerly known as Zhang Kailun, was born in 1970 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, she grew up in an ordinary family, there are three brothers and sisters in the family, she is the youngest, and there is an older sister and an older brother.
Zhang Yan's father was a soldier, participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in his early years, and engaged in ordinary work after changing jobs, and his mother was a virtuous woman who worked in the Xi'an Instrument Factory.
Although she grew up in an ordinary family, Zhang Yan was loved by her parents as a princess since she was a child, and her brothers and sisters were also very good to her, and she lived very happily when she was a child.
Zhang Yan's primary school was opened by her mother in the Xi'an Instrument Factory to open a school for the children of workers, when she was a child, she was very introverted, did not like to socialize, did not have many friends around, and her only hobby was dancing.
Seeing that she liked dancing so much, although the art industry was not as popular as it is now, and many people even looked down on art workers, Zhang Yan's parents were open-minded and very supportive of Zhang Yan to chase her dreams.
In order to train Zhang Yan, her parents saved money and sent her to learn Xi dance, Zhang Yan did not disappoint her parents, and after years of Xi practice, she laid a solid foundation in dance.
After graduating from junior high school, Zhang Yan was admitted to the Shaanxi Art Troupe and became a dancer, but she did not stay in the art troupe for long.
In 1987, in order to improve his dance level, 17-year-old Zhang Yan was admitted to the modern dance college class Xi of Guangdong Dance School, learned modern dance, became one of the first students in the class, and also became the first generation of modern dance performers in Chinese mainland to receive a four-year formal dance school.
Unfortunately, not long after she entered the Guangdong Dance School, her father, who loved her very much, passed away in this year, and her father was only in his fifties when he died.
The early death of her father inspired Zhang Yan to make a name for herself on the road of dance, and she studied Xi dance more attentively, putting all her thoughts on dance, and her dance level has been significantly improved.
Two
In 1990, Zhang Yan, who was still studying in a dance school, signed up for the second "Beauty in the City of Flowers" beauty pageant held in Guangzhou, Guangdong.
She has been a beauty embryo since she was a child, and it goes without saying much about her appearance, plus she has been learning Xi dance for many years, and her figure and temperament have also been cultivated very well.
In the process of the competition, Zhang Yan stood out from many beauty pageants with her absolute advantage and won the championship of the beauty pageant in one fell swoop, and she won a prize of 10,000 yuan in this competition.
In June 1991, after four years of Xi hard study, Zhang Yan graduated from Guangdong Dance School with excellent grades and was assigned to work in Guangdong Experimental Modern Dance Company.
Seeing that Zhang Yan had finally succeeded in her studies and had a stable job, her mother, who had been worried about her, was finally completely relieved.
However, Zhang Yan was not satisfied with this "iron rice bowl" job in the eyes of outsiders, and she soon left the Guangdong Experimental Modern Dance Company.
In 1992, Hong Kong TVB, also known as TVB, opened the first artist training class in the mainland to recruit students from all over the society.
As we all know, TVB's training classes have successively cultivated countless outstanding actors, such as Chow Yun-fat, Wu Mengda, Stephen Chow, Tony Leung, etc., all of whom came out of TVB's training classes.
When Zhang Yan learned the news, she felt that this was an opportunity to change her life, and because her development in the company was slow at that time, she did not hesitate to take the exam for the training class.
With his innate acting talent and outstanding appearance conditions, Zhang Yan was successfully admitted to the artist training class and became the first batch of students in the TVB mainland artist training class.
Three
In 1993, after a year of intense study Xi, Zhang Yan successfully graduated from TVB's artist training class.
Due to his particularly good performance during his Xi, his acting skills are remarkable, and his outstanding appearance conditions, Zhang Yan successfully joined TVB after graduation and became a professional actor.
Not long after entering TVB, Zhang Yan participated in the drama "CATWALK Pretty Woman", playing a girl in the film and starting her acting career.
With the support of TVB, Zhang Yan later participated in "Racecourse Tycoon", "Huangpu Love", "Life and Death Lawsuit", "No. 1 Imperial Court 3", "Qing Palace Qi Digital Record", "One-armed Swordsman" and other works, with the help of these works, Zhang Yan slowly gained a firm foothold in TVB and also had a certain reputation.
In 1994, Zhang Yan cooperated with the well-known singer and actor Gu Juji to shoot the drama "Laughing and Watching the Storm", playing a girl "Zhang Xiaolian" who came to Guangdong from other places to work, and played a couple with Gu Juji in the play.
Although Zhang Yan and Gu Juji were still very young at that time, and their acting skills were slightly young, it was precisely because of the greenness on their faces that they were loved by many audiences.
After the show became a hit, Zhang Yan and Gu Juji both gained countless fans, and because the couple they played in the play was very popular with the audience, the two also won the "Best Couple Partner Award" selected by TVB together!
In just over a year, Zhang Yan quickly became famous in the Hong Kong entertainment industry and became a popular actress favored by countless people inside and outside the circle.
Four
In 1995, Zhang Yan ushered in the explosion of her career, and in this year, she participated in many classic works one after another, and many roles left a deep impression on the audience.
For example, in Louis Koo and Li Ruotong's version of "The Condor Heroes", she made a cameo appearance in the role of "He Yuanjun", although there are not many scenes, her smile and smile have touched the hearts of countless audiences.
In addition, she played "Lan Enmei" in "Criminal Investigation Files", "Meng Qiuxia" in "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", "Zhao Huaiyu" in "Bao Qingtian's Personal Hatred", etc., these roles have attracted the attention of the audience.
At the end of 1995, after the contract with TVB expired, Zhang Yan did not renew the contract, and she returned to the mainland to develop because of her homesickness.
Soon after returning to the mainland, Zhang Yan participated in the film "Don't Come to Me If You Get Divorced", which starred powerful actors Li Baotian and Gai Ke, and Zhang Yan played the role of "Shi Hong" in the film.
With the rich experience accumulated over the years of filming, Zhang Yan, who has remarkable acting skills, portrayed the role of "Shi Hong" in the film vividly, and after the film was released, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Rooster Award for this role.
After returning to the mainland, Zhang Yan also gained her love and got together with her current husband Zhang Jincheng.
Five
In June 1996, Zhang Yan was invited to participate in a program of Travel Satellite TV, and met Zhang Jincheng, an actor and host who was 5 years older than her, in the program.
Zhang Jincheng was born in 1965, is a Hong Kong native, he graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and has participated in "Four-wheel Drive Bridge Saint", "Cousin, Hello!", "Criminal Investigation File 2", "Forensic Record" and other works, although his reputation is not as good as Zhang Yangao, but he is also a very good artist.
When they met on the show, although Zhang Yan and Zhang Jincheng both had a good feeling for each other, they didn't communicate much at that time, and they no longer contacted each other after the show.
In 2001, after a lapse of five years, the two met on the streets of Beijing, and the two who were driven together by fate began to have frequent contact, and after mutual understanding, the two who were very compatible came together.
After harvesting love, Zhang Yan, who returned to the mainland and his career has not improved much, has also ushered in a breakthrough in his career.
In 2002, Zhang Yan successively filmed "Flying Knife Love", "New Fourth Army", "Missile Brigade Commander", "Shadow", "Police Officer in the Year of the Snake", "Woman Soup", "Jade Guanyin" and other works, after these works were broadcast, the response was very enthusiastic.
In the same year, in this year, Zhang Yan and Liu Ruoying, Chen Hao, and Xue Jianing collaborated on the urban light comedy "Pink Girl", playing the role of the man's wife "He Runan".
When portraying the role of "He Runan", Zhang Yan perfectly showed the character's handsome, neat, decisive and independent character characteristics.
After becoming popular with "Pink Girl", Zhang Yan's career has successfully reached a new level, and then he has successively participated in word-of-mouth masterpieces such as "Romantic Things", "Tianluo Net", and "101 Marriage Proposals".
After stabilizing in the mainland entertainment industry, she and her boyfriend Zhang Jincheng were inseparable from each other, and she also began to work on her marriage.
Six
In February 2004, under the constant urging of his mother, Zhang Yan and Zhang Jincheng, who had been in love for many years, entered the palace of marriage.
In the second year after marriage, Zhang Yan gave birth to a daughter named Mengmeng for Zhang Jincheng, and the arrival of her daughter made her experience the sense of responsibility as a mother and made this small family more warm.
After the birth of the child, in order to take care of the child and the family, Zhang Yan briefly stopped his career, did not go out to film for nearly two years, and has been working as a housewife at home.
It wasn't until 2007, after two years, that Zhang Yan finally returned to the showbiz and continued to work hard for her career.
After that, she was busy developing her career, and successively participated in "Marriage March", "Dawn of the Decisive Battle", "My Three Mothers", "War Behind the Smoke of Gunpowder", "Parents' Love", "To Youth" and other works.
Because Zhang Yan's career focus is on the mainland, his mother and relatives are also there, and his husband and parents-in-law live in Hong Kong, in order to take care of their respective families, Zhang Yan and her husband often live separately after marriage.
Cheung lives at home in the mainland and her husband lives in another home in Hong Kong, making the couple two families.
Although they have two families, the couple each takes care of both families very well, visiting each other's relatives whenever they have time, and accompanying each other in their spare time, and their family life has always been very happy.
In recent years, as more and more young actresses have become popular, Zhang Yan, who has entered middle age, has encountered a bottleneck in her career, and she has participated in fewer and fewer film and television works.
Zhang Yan doesn't force this, she has a stable mentality, she goes to film when there is filming, and accompanies her husband and daughter at home when there is no filming.
Under her care, her daughter is now 18 years old, and the other party has inherited her good genes, and her appearance and temperament are very good, even more beautiful than when she was young!
It is worth mentioning that due to the early death of Zhang Yan's father, as her mother gets older and older, in order to make her mother feel her filial piety, she will not be lonely in her later life.
Zhang Yan has not only spent a lot of time with her mother over the years, but also loved her as a child, which is really praised by everyone! .
In December 2023, Zhang Yan will be 53 years old, as an actor, she became popular when she was young, and she was noticed and loved by countless people, and her career is undoubtedly very successful.
As for the relationship, since marrying her Hong Kong husband, in the past 19 years after marriage, the couple has been in love with each other, accompanied each other, and loved by each other as princesses, she is happy.
Finally, I wish Zhang Yan's life to be happier and happier, and I look forward to her bringing more good works and roles to the audience!
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