Yan Qingyu, whose original name was Yan Qing, was born in 1966. She was born in Shandong, born in Beijing, grew up in Sichuan, the reason why she grew up in different places is because her father worked in the army and often moved units, so Yan Qingyu had the experience of "going south and breaking into the north" since she was a child.
In the early 1980s, Yan Qingyu, who graduated from high school, was interested in film and television performances, so she came to Beijing alone from her hometown. When she first arrived in the capital, Yan Qingyu went around relying on relatives and friends, living in a fixed place, carrying a luggage bag and not knowing how many times she had moved home. She had been introduced by acquaintances, found the predecessors and masters of the literary and art circles, and wanted to enter the film and television circle, but she was greeted by a basin of cold water such as "you have average conditions, you can't do this line".
Yan Qingyu was not discouraged, she took the professional examination of the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 1982, successfully passed the re-examination of the initial examination, and when she tried three times, she was brushed off due to insufficient weight. Later, Yan Qingyu applied for the performance major of China Social University, which is a private university. Although he passed the professional examination, he was not admitted because he did not have a Beijing hukou. Soon after, things took a turn for the better, the school's acting major had an enrollment quota for transfer students, and Li Baishui, the head of the department, felt that Yan Qing was a material that could be made, so he made an exception and admitted this little girl who did not have a Beijing hukou.
Yan Qingyu received three years of formal acting training in the Department of Acting of China Social University and graduated with honors. This university is not included in the allocation, and Yan Qingyu does not have a Beijing hukou, so it is even more difficult to work in a professional literary and art group in Beijing. Yan Qingyu loves performing arts and doesn't care if there is a unit, as long as there is a drama. As a result, Yan Qingyu started to drift north and became an individual actor.
Yan Qingyu's first "electrocution" was in the blockbuster "Hanging Curtains and Listening to Politics" at that time. The film is the first co-production between the mainland and Hong Kong, directed by Hong Kong director Li Hanxiang and starring Liu Xiaoqing and Leung Ka Fai. Yan Qingyu played the palace girl Shuangxi in the film, a big dragon with a name and a surname. During the filming period, there was no Yan Qingyi's role for a month, and the production department said that it was impossible to raise idle people and could not take subsidies in vain, so Yan Qingyu was "delegated" to the clothing department to do miscellaneous work. Every morning, before dawn, the thin Yan Qingyu went to the clothing group to carry the box and do some physical work. The bulky clothing box often overwhelms Yan Qingyu, and she keeps telling herself that people, not born to go, always learn to climb first, then learn to stand, and finally run.
Following "Hanging Curtains and Listening to Politics", Yan Qingyu has successively participated in the filming of some film and television dramas, but they are all inconspicuous supporting roles and dragon sets. The first time she played the heroine, it was Yan Qingyu who exchanged blood and tears. It was the TV series "Rainbow", which told the story of the little nurse of the Red Army who led the wounded through the meadow. In order to restore the real historical scene, the director decided to shoot on the Sichuan-Tibet Plateau. The original actress did not want to go, so she voluntarily gave up. Yan Qingyu, who was not afraid of suffering, came up, and she came to the plateau at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters with the crew, where she stayed for more than a month. The plateau climate is harsh, the steamed steamed steamed steamed steam The first scene in the play is a small nurse running for the wounded to take medicine, when shooting, due to the lack of oxygen in the plateau, Yan Qingyu ran a few steps top-heavy, breathless, her face was purple, the camera was finished, the director just shouted OK, her whole body was soft, collapsed to the ground. In this more than a month of shooting, Yan Qingyu not only crawled in the stinky water of the mud pond, soaked in cold water, but also suffered from a landslide on the winding road and suffered from arthritis... This ordeal made Yan Qingyu's first heroine, He Ying, a little nurse of the Red Army.
In November 1991, yan Qingyu was given the opportunity to accompany a Chinese film delegation to Mauritius for her wonderful performance in the film "Zhenzhen's Hair House". Since there is no work unit, the cost of going abroad can only be borne by yourself. Yan Qingyu did not want to give up this overseas exchange, so she withdrew all her savings and borrowed thousands of dollars from her friends to collect the air ticket fee. She became the first person in China to pay for the film delegation.'s travel expenses. In this regard, Yan Qingyu said that to be able to participate in cultural exchanges, this kind of honor and trust can not be bought by how much money, it is a recognition of my acting career.
Because she is not an actor in the system, Yan Qingyu has been discriminated against in the crew. During the filming of the TV series "Kyauk kyauk Magnolia", she accidentally fell to the ground and fractured her tailbone, at this time, she silently told herself that she must insist on finishing the filming and not let others underestimate her as an individual actor. So, she stood up and ran forward according to the setting of the plot, while there was a heart-rending pain in her waist, and tears and sweat kept flowing down. After filming this scene, Yan Qingyu lay in the hospital for three months.
Yan Qingyu once admitted in an interview that I have encountered too many difficulties on the road of art, which seems to outsiders to be very unlucky, but without these experiences, where am I today? Feeling the love of heaven has given me a colorful and splendid life, so that I truly feel the bitter, spicy, sour and sweet life.