Speaking of Gui Yalei, everyone may feel very unfamiliar, but when it comes to Wu Zetian in "Daming Palace Ci", or the eldest lady in "Orange is Red", you must be familiar with it.
Gui Yalei can be said to be the first batch of "Qiong girls" and the first to play the role of "Lu Yiping".
She is the heroine Lu Yiping in the old version of the film "Smoke and Rain", and won the Best Actress at the 4th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for this role.
Gui Yalei's career has developed well, and after being sealed four times, she also has a good home emotionally.
Married to her first love, she has been spoiled by her husband as a princess after marriage, how did she do it, and how is Gui Yalei doing now?
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Gui Yalei, born in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1944, can be said to be an authentic Changsha girl.
Her father is a well-known screenwriter, and her mother is an art student, and when Gui Yalei was 5 years old, she immigrated to Taiwan with her family.
Perhaps influenced by the family atmosphere, Gui Yalei has been very interested in art since she was a child, likes to sing and dance, and often performs for her family.
When she was 9 years old, by chance, she starred in the stage play "Put Down Your Whip" directed by her father, which made Gui Yalei very happy.
Although it is a small role, it has taken root in Gui Yalei's heart, and since then she has dreamed of becoming an actor.
In 1961, Gui Yalei was admitted to the Taiwan College of Arts with excellent results, majoring in performance expertise.
When she was 20 years old, Kaohsiung District held a "Miss China" audition competition to select girls with better figures and looks and train them to become stars.
At the instigation of her classmates, Gui Yalei signed up for the competition with the mentality of giving it a try.
Unexpectedly, Gui Yalei went all the way to the finals and won the championship.
Perhaps this game is a stepping stone for Gui Yalei, and she also entered the showbiz and began to shoot some commercials.
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In 1965, Aunt Qiong Yao's adaptation of the novel "Smoke and Rain" was being filmed, and the heroine had not been decided.
The director went to various professional schools to look for it, and happened to come across Gui Yalei's graduation performance, she was young and lively on the stage, and her performance was vivid, which made the director think she was very good.
immediately asked her to come to the interview and perform the role, Gui Yalei won the favor of the director with her outstanding temperament, and finally decided to let her play the role of Lu Yiping.
Facts have proved that the director's vision is good, and Gui Yalei has played the role of "Lu Yiping" to the fullest.
The excellent dress in the play, her beautiful face, handsome and capable short hair, coupled with her unstubborn personality, left a deep impression on the audience.
Gui Yalei also won the Best Actress Award at the Golden Horse Awards for Film with her debut film "Smoke and Rain", becoming the youngest actress at that time. That year, Gui Yalei was 19 years old.
It is no exaggeration to say that Gui Yalei was born to be an actor, and her debut is the pinnacle.
In the past few years of studying acting, Gui Yalei has flexibly applied the knowledge she has learned to acting, and her acting skills have been unanimously recognized by her predecessors and directors.
At the same time, she is also a very hard-working person, she puts a lot of effort into memorizing lines every time, and when she meets someone who doesn't understand, she will humbly ask her seniors and directors for advice.
After Gui Yalei starred in "Smoke and Rain", she was even more determined about the path she wanted to take in the future.
In 1966, Gui Yalei was invited to star in the literary film "Winter Warmth", in which she played the gentle and kind maid Ah Jin.
After that, Gui Yalei starred in "Home in Taipei", playing the role of "Feng Shuyuan", a beautiful doctor in China. Although he is a doctor who came back from studying abroad, he still has to face the difficult scripture at home and the betrayal of his husband.
Her father-in-law had an accident and could only lie in bed, and there was a young brother-in-law who needed her to take care of.
After the film was released, it caused a huge response at the time, and Gui Yalei won the 16th Asia-Pacific Film "Best Actress" and the 8th Golden Horse Award "Best Actress".
After Gui Yalei won the double, film appointments began to continue, and many directors squeezed their heads and wanted to cooperate with her.
In 1977, Gui Yalei played a mother in the romance film "Titi's Diary", and she showed the character flexibly and vividly, and won the 15th Golden Horse Award for "Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film".
At this time, Gui Yalei was only 33 years old, and she began to play her mother, which surprised the audience, and she starred in a lot of films.
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In 1989, Gui Yalei partnered with Jackie Chan, and Anita Mui collaborated on the comedy action film "Miracle".
In the same year, 李安向她抛出了橄榄枝,邀请她出演喜剧爱情片电影《喜宴》。
After filming "The Wedding Banquet", Ang Lee jokingly said to the media: "I won't cooperate with Gui Yalei in the future", because she had to study the characters she played thoroughly before starting filming.
In 1994, Ang Lee was slapped in the face, and Gui Yalei was invited to star in the drama he directed, "Family Trilogy" one of "Men and Women Eating".
Gui Yalei was able to adapt to the role of Aunt Liang in the play, and was shortlisted for the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 31st Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
In that era, Gui Yalei became a sought-after existence, and it was a myth in the film industry, and basically everyone who cooperated with her could win awards.
Since 1995, Gui Yalei began to develop in the mainland, and the first drama she starred in was the movie "Daughter Red" directed by Xie Yan.
Gui Yalei can be said to have high achievements in the film and television industry, winning the Golden Horse Award four times, the Golden Bell Award twice, and many other awards.
There is an outrageous principle of cooperating with Gui Yalei that she will never take on kissing scenes, which is to say the man standing behind her.
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Gui Yalei was married before she became famous, and she married her first love Zhang Mengkui when she was 21 years old.
When Gui Yalei was 18 years old, she met Zhang Mengkui and was each other's first love.
was invited by Qiong Yao to participate in the audition for "Smoke and Rain", but Zhang Mengkui disagreed.
He felt that the showbiz was a mixed place, she was a little girl who couldn't cope with it, and she was easily attracted by the outside world of flowers, and finally left him.
Gui Yalei also saw Zhang Mengkui's concerns, and promised him: "When I finish playing Lu Yiping, I will marry you."
Gui Yalei did what she said, although "Smoke and Rain" made her popular, but she did not forget her promise to return to Zhang Mengkui.
As soon as he had time, he went to get a certificate with Zhang Mengkui, and gave him a reassurance, after marrying him as his wife, her in-laws did not object to her development in the entertainment industry.
Her husband even made an appointment with her in three chapters: don't shoot kissing scenes, don't wear more revealing clothes, and don't participate in all kinds of entertainment.
Because of the agreement with her husband, Gui Yalei once refused to shoot a kiss scene, and the media said that she was playing a big name, and her acting path was restricted.
In fact, Gui Yalei knows very well what she wants, so she has been married to Zhang Mengkui for decades, and she has not had any scandals in the entertainment industry.
Now Gui Yalei is 79 years old, her whole family lives abroad, and her two daughters also have a good home.
Both sisters are married to foreigners, and Gui Yalei's two foreign sons-in-law have very good careers, one is a vice president in a bank, and the other works in the space agency.
In fact, when Gui Yalei's eldest daughter wanted to marry a foreign son-in-law, she was very opposed to it and felt that it was better to find an authentic Chinese son-in-law, and in the end she was moved by the love of her eldest daughter and foreign son-in-law.
Although Gui Yalei is 79 years old, she still travels back and forth to help take care of her grandson.
Her two foreign sons-in-law are also very filial to her, and often give her gifts in different ways.
Gui Yalei and her husband have been working together for 58 years, and after marriage, they were spoiled by their husbands as princesses, and their daughters are also married, with children and grandchildren, living a happy life, which can be described as a winner in life.