Note: This list is limited to actresses aged 30-40 in Chinese mainland
10. Ni Ni
Ni Ni, born on August 8, 1988 (35 years old) in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Department of Language and Communication of Nanguang College of Communication University of China. Ni Ni was a national second-class swimmer and also won the all-around championship of Jiangsu Province in international standard dance.
became famous for playing the heroine "Yumo" in the movie "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" directed by Zhang Yimou. In 2007, Zhang Yimou began to select actresses for his film "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling". In November 2009, Ni Ni, who was studying at Nanguang College of Communication University of China at the time, participated in the cast selection, and was appreciated by Zhang Yimou among many candidates and served as the heroine in the film, so she became popular and was called a new generation of "Mou Girl" by the Chinese media. Ni Ni conducted crew training during the winter and summer vacations of her sophomore to senior years for this film, including words and deeds, physical classes, language classes, calligraphy, learning pipa and playing mahjong. With a cumulative domestic box office of 600 million yuan, Ni Ni won the Best New Actor Award at the 6th Asian Film Awards for this film.
At the beginning of 2013, Ni Ni, Angelababy, Yang Mi, and Liu Shishi were named one of the "Four Little Flowers" of the new generation.
Representative works: "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", "The Year in a Hurry", "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", "The Golden Years", "Chenxi Yuan".
9. Jing Tian
Jing Tian, born on July 21, 1988 (35 years old) in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, studied at the Beijing Dance Academy with a 2000-level Chinese ethnic and folk dance major, and graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.
In 2006, Jing Tian released his first single "Who Are You" (included in the EP album the following year), officially embarking on the road of acting.
In 2010, he came to prominence with the romantic movie "My Beautiful Boss", and in 2011, he gained attention again because of the costume movie "Warring States", and since then, he has starred in popular dramas such as "The Legend of Ban Shu", "Glory of the Tang Dynasty", "Fire King", "A Trip to Meet Love", "Sito" and so on. In 2017, he won the "Most Beautiful Person of the Year" award at the COSMO Fashion and Beauty Festival, and in 2019, he was ranked 42nd among the top 100 most beautiful faces in China by LikeTCCAsia.
Representative works: "The Legend of Ban Shu", "Glory of the Tang Dynasty", "Fire King", "A Trip to Meet Love", "Sito".
8. Li Yitong
Li Yitong, born on September 6, 1990 (33 years old) in Jinan, Shandong, graduated from the Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance Department of Beijing Dance Academy.
is famous for playing the 2017 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" girl Huang Rong, and is loved and appreciated by the majority of martial arts fans. In 2019, he played the role of Lu Wenxi in "The Crane Pavilion", which was well received.
In the TV series "Hurricane", Li Yitong plays the role of Meng Yu, the daughter of the city director, and the male protagonist who is a police officer is a childhood sweetheart, Meng Yu is smart, eccentric and a little rebellious, and became a reporter after graduating with a master's degree in journalism, sticking to his duties as a reporter and truthfully reporting the truth. The ratings and webcast of the show exploded, and it was the king of the year, with the average rating of CCTV CVB breaking 2.5, the CVB ratings of Beijing and Dragon TV breaking 1, iQiyi's popularity ranking first in history, as high as 11,800, and the number of Yunhe broadcasts exceeded 10 billion, with an average of 250 million. On March 30, 2023, at Dragon TV's 2023 TV Drama Quality Ceremony, Li Yitong won the "Quality Shining Drama Star" award with Ai Qianxue in "Special Warfare Glory" and Meng Yu in "Hurricane". On May 21, Li Yitong won the "Influential Actor of the Year" award at the 3rd Global Film and Television Culture Communication Summit Forum with Meng Yu in "Hurricane".
Debut work: "Half Demon Allure".
Representative works "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" (2017 edition), "The Enchanter Without Borders", "The Crane Pavilion", "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time", "The Great Girl", "My Time, Your Time", "Dark Clouds Meet the Bright Moon", "Canglan Jue", "Hurricane".
7. Gulnazha
Guli Nazha, born on May 2, 1992 (31 years old) in Urumqi, Xinjiang, graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy (2011-2015).
Guli Nazha has been practicing dance since childhood, and in 2007, she participated in the selection of "The Flower of the Harmonious Chinese Nation". debuted as a graphic model, and then signed a contract with Tang Film and Television to play the role of Yu Xiaoxue in "Xuanyuan Sword: Traces of Heaven". In 2012, she played the heroine in Jay Chou's MV "Red Dust Inn". In the early days of his debut, he was known as "Xinjiang Venus" and "Beijing Film School Flower".
Representative works: "Xuanyuan Sword: Traces of the Sky", "Martial God Zhao Zilong", "Sewing Machine Band", "The Legend of Heaven", "The Wind Rises".
6.赵丽颖
Zhao Liying, born on October 16, 1987 (36 years old) in Langfang City, Langfang District, Hebei Province, is the vice chairman of the Hebei Film and Television Association and the director of the China Television Artists Association.
In 2011, she began to gain attention for her role as Qing'er in "New Huanzhu Gege". In 2013, he starred in "The Legend of Lu Zhen". In 2014, he starred in "Shanshan is Coming", and established his own studio in the same year.
In 2015, he starred in "Flower Thousand Bone", which became the first TV series in China to exceed 20 billion online views. In 2017, the starring "The Legend of Chu Qiao" exceeded 50 billion views. In 2018, the starring "Do You Know? Do You Know? Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" exceeded 10 billion views on Tencent Video, with a total of more than 30 billion views. "Flower Thousand Bone", "Qingyunzhi", "Chu Qiao's Biography", "Do You Know? Do You Know? Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin" won the annual crown in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019, and the total number of online broadcasts of individual heroine dramas exceeded 200 billion, ranking first in the history of the whole network.
In 2022, starring in "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" won the annual crown of satellite TV simulcast. In June 2023, Zhao Liying was nominated for Best Actress at the Shanghai TV Festival for "The Wind Blows in the Summer" and was awarded the Overseas Promotion Ambassador of Chinese TV Dramas.
5.杨幂
Yang Mi, born on September 12, 1986 (37 years old) in Xuanwu District, Beijing, graduated from Beijing Film Academy.
Yang Mi was born as a child star, and he began to appear in TV series at the age of 4, and appeared in Stephen Chow's movie "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier". officially debuted in 2003, and in 2006, Guo Xiang began to attract attention because of his role in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
In 2009, Tang Xuejian's popularity soared in the role of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy III". In 2011, he quickly became well-known with many film and television works such as "Palace" and "Far Cry", embarked on the multi-habitat development path of film, television and music, and tried to serve as a TV series producer.
She participated in movies such as "Embroidered Spring Knife 2: Shura Battlefield", "Small Times" series, "Breakup Master" and other films have achieved box office success, and the TV series "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" in 2017 was widely praised after it was broadcast.
Representative works: "Small Times", "The Legend of Sword and Fairy III", "Palace", "Ancient Sword Legend", "Three Lives and Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms".
4.杨颖Angelababy
Angelababy was born on February 28, 1989 (35 years old) in Shanghai.
Angelababy is a Chinese-German mixed-race who debuted as a model at the age of 14. Before becoming popular in Chinese mainland, his personal acting career had very good results in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
After climbing to the peak of her acting career in 2014 by participating in "Running Brother", Angelababy's acting career development focused on the mainland.
In the 2019 Forbes China Celebrity List, she ranked 14th. In mid-2016, it was ranked 81st in the "100 Most Beautiful Faces in the World" by TC Candler.
Debut work: "The World is Invincible".
Representative works: 2013 "Di Renjie's Divine Dragon King", 2017 "Lonely Fang Doesn't Appreciate Himself", 2020 "Sky Rescue", 2022 "The Wind Rises in Longxi".
3. Di Lieba
Di Lieba was born on June 3, 1992 (31 years old) in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Dilieba means "beloved beauty" in the Uyghur language.
She was born in a literary family, her father Dilimurat Abaidullah is a national first-class actor, and a singer of the Xinjiang Song and Dance Troupe; influenced by her father and living environment, Di Lieba has been interested in various arts since she was a child, and took the initiative to learn piano, dance and violin. Graduated from the Acting Department of Shanghai Theater Academy, majoring in drama, film and television.
In 2011, she was recommended by her father to become the heroine of the TV series of the same name adapted from the classic movie "Anarhan", in which she played the role of Anarhan, a "girl from the old society" who is not afraid of power. In 2013, "Anarhan" was broadcast on CCTV prime time, won the first place in the national ratings of the same period of the city network, and was nominated for the Outstanding TV Drama Award at the 30th TV Drama Feitian Awards, and Di Lieba also officially debuted.
Representative works: "Carat Lovers", "Three Lives and Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "Three Lives and Three Worlds Pillow Book", "Long Song Xing", "You Are My Glory".
2. Liu Shishi
Liu Shishi, born on March 10, 1987 (37 years old) in Xuanwu District, Beijing, graduated from the Ballet Department of Beijing Dance Academy.
In 2004, when he was 16 years old, he stepped into the showbiz by starring in the TV series "Moon Shadow Wind Lotus". In 2007, he officially signed a contract with a brokerage company, and successively starred in many TV series such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of Sword and Fairy III", "The Weaver Girl of the World", "Strange Man Yizhimei" and so on.
In 2018, she won the "Weibo Goddess of the Year" on Sina Weibo Night. In 2011, he became popular for starring in "Step by Step".
After that, she began to enter the big screen, filming film works such as "Fuji Detective", "Back to the Place Where Love Begins", "Embroidered Spring Knife", "Five Minutes Before Midnight", "City Lights of Psychological Crime" and other film works.
Dedo work: "Tsukikage Obi"
Representative works: "The Legend of Sword and Fairy III", "Strange Man Yizhimei", "Step by Step", "Xuanyuan Sword: Traces of the Sky", "The Legend of the Female Doctor: Concubine Ming".
1. Liu Yifei
Liu Yifei, born on August 25, 1987 (36 years old) in Wuhan, Hubei Province, graduated from the 2002 undergraduate class of the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy.
In 2002, he starred in the TV series "The Family of Gold Powder" and entered the showbiz.
At the beginning of 2005, the TV series "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" adapted from the game of the same name was on the air, and the role of Zhao Ling'er played by Liu Yifei became the highlight of the play because of her fresh and pure temperament, and on August 25 of the same year, she signed a contract with Sony Music Entertainment of Japan and officially entered the music scene. In the following years, he successively played the roles of Wang Yuyan in "Dragon Babu" and Xiaolongnu in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
In 2008, she appeared on the international screen with the Hollywood movie "The King of Kung Fu", starred in the movie "Bronze Bird Terrace" in 2012, won the Golden Lotus Award for Best Actress at the 5th Macao International Film Festival, and stood out from the audition of Disney's "Mulan" live-action movie in 2017 and became the actor of Mulan.
On December 19, 2017, the official Weibo of the TV series "Nanyanzhai Records" announced that Liu Yifei would play the heroine Lu Mansheng. The drama is Liu Yifei's second TV series after the completion of "The Condor Heroes" in April 2005. In June 2022, he returned to the TV drama circle with "Menghualu", and the number of views of the show exceeded 500 million times in the first week.
Representative works: "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Menghualu", "Mulan", "The King of Kung Fu", "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Dragon Babu".