He is the high-powered and calculating Marquis Xie Yu in the "Langya List".
He is the suspicious, righteous and evil "mad instructor" Wang Tianfeng in "The Pretender".
He is a self-disciplined maniac who can still play "shadow killing" at the age of 50.
He is also the super cute "Meow King" on social platforms, and the wild spokesperson for kitten expressions.
Don't look at liu Yijun who is like the year of destiny today, who has cultivated into a "villain professional" on the screen, and the temperament of "Sven scum" is thrown between his hands and feet.
People post photos of their youth, radiant essence, beautiful and handsome, a proper jade face student!
No wonder that more than twenty years ago, he was able to play Ning Caichen in "Human Ghost Love", and the image was placed here.
Liu Yijun, a Xi'an native born in 1970, lived next to the Xi'an Film Factory when he was a child, and this layer of "neighbor" relationship made Liu Yijun always very obsessed with movies, and he wanted to be an actor since he was a child.
He is tall and tall, his appearance is exquisite and handsome, and he is also considered to be "God appreciates food and eats", coupled with the love from the heart, the subtle influence, should naturally go to art.
But in fact, Liu Yijun's acting road is full of twists and turns and difficulties.
First, when he was in the fourth grade of primary school, he wrote down the dream of "actor", which was incompatible with the "Wei Guangzheng" of his classmates "scientist" and "policeman", and was disliked by the teacher's blank eyes.
Then at the age of 17, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, and in his sophomore year, he filmed "Female Thief" as the male lead, but the final film failed to be released.
Wait until you enter the crew of the movie "Falling Mountain Wind", and then have a conflict with the heroine Song Jia, and the fledgling newcomer challenges the "queen of the popular film" What good fruit can be? Under the balance, the crew fired Liu Yijun.
Then the young and vigorous Liu Yijun never got a chance to perform again, until he graduated in 1991 and was assigned to return to his hometown and go to the Xi'an Film Factory to copy salary slips.
"I know a lot of big names at that time, how many people in the family, and how much salary I have." Including Zhang Yimou, Yang Yaya, Wu Tianming, huang Jianxin, I have all copied their salary scales. ”
Such a boring job, he has been doing it for several years, and at the same time, he has not forgotten his dream of being an actor and hopes to use his spare time to act.
However, his overly delicate appearance made him unable to find a suitable role in the local area, because the director said that he "did not have the characteristics of Xi'an people".
That look is not rough enough, is it possible to go to the south of the small bridge and flowing water to seek development?
In addition, Liu Yijun went out to shoot a drama privately because the leader was not allowed to leave, and he ended up "staying in the factory to check", and he happened to know a director of Ningbo Television.
So he summed it up and simply transferred away.
During his work in Ningbo, 25-year-old Liu Yijun created an 8-episode TV mini-series "Long Memories of the World", which also won the second prize of the National Starlight Cup.
Seeing that his talent is enough to support the position of director behind the scenes, Liu Yijun still can't let go of the longing to shine in front of the stage.
Just on the road of "chasing dreams" that Liu Yijun struggled to trek, he experienced divorce and depression again.
All kinds of realities of tribulations almost crushed him.
Fortunately, Liu Yijun is not a character who goes with the flow and is obedient, and a momentum of not accepting defeat supports him to go north again to find opportunities.
"If you can't kill you, it will always make you stronger."
In 1996, Liu Yijun returned to the Beijing showbiz circle, did not pick roles, as long as there was a job opportunity, he took a 12% serious attitude to face it.
Liu Yijun, 26 years old, is much more down-to-earth and calm, and clearly knows what he wants.
Without performance opportunities and resources, he tried to stay in the crew to do odd jobs, and also made an assistant director for his college classmate Guan Hu (the director of "Eight Hundred") and was responsible for selecting actors.
Later, after filming "Chinese Armed Police" (Guan Hu's classmate's play), Liu Yijun finally found the feeling of being an actor.
He starts from the supporting role, no matter how small the role is not perfunctory, every shot is focused.
Starting from some nameless dragon sets, to Ning Caichen of the TV series "Human Ghost Love", to Liu Guoqiang, a marginal character in the feature film "Brotherhood of Life and Death", Liu Yijun's acting skills have gradually won the recognition of the audience.
In 2000, he was nominated for the Audience's Favorite Actor Award at the 18th Golden Eagle Awards for his role as "Liu Guoqiang".
Then, starting in 2002, Liu Yijun continued to play for more than ten years, once again spanning the big screen and the small screen.
"Modern Family", "Romantic Journey", "The Great Dye House", "Genghis Khan", "The Great Qing Official", "The Bowl of the World", "Warm Cool Pearls", "Umbrella Colorful", "Top Secret Escort", "Chasing Dreams", "Creating a Prosperous World", "Emerald Phoenix", "There Are Beautiful People in the North"... He can be seen in these works of different styles.
Most importantly, since the beginning of "Romantic Journey", Liu Yijun has become acquainted with director Kong Sheng, and has also laid the groundwork for the accumulation of his acting career.
Until February 2014, he participated in the era family emotional drama "Parental Love" produced by Noonday Sunshine, directed by Kong Sheng, and starring Guo Tao and Mei Ting.
Ouyang Yi, played by Liu Yijun, is the only character who makes director Kong Sheng cry.
After the rightist was rehabilitated, the outbreak scene on the wine table, Liu Yijun acted so infectiously, that the director Kong Sheng behind the monitor could not help but shed tears.
Remembering when he first entered the North Film, Teacher Ma Jingwu praised him as "a person who is easy to believe, which is the most needed advantage as a professional actor." ”
After all, only if the actor believes that he is the character himself can perform the turbulent emotions in the character's heart.
In October of the same year, Liu Yijun participated in the modern historical drama "No War in Peiping" directed by Kong Sheng and Li Xue, which won three authoritative awards for Chinese TV dramas: "Feitian Award", "Magnolia Award" and "Golden Eagle Award".
Liu Yijun, whose acting skills are already pure, is almost a chance to explode.
In 2015, the word of mouth and ratings of "Langya List" and "The Pretender" flew together, and Liu Yijun finally became popular.
At this time, he was 45 years old, but he still maintained the thin figure of a teenager because of his self-discipline and badminton exercises for many years.
You know, his Beiying classmate Zhang Jiayi and middle-aged male stars like Chen Jianbin and Pan Yueming have not resisted the erosion of the years and have been blessed one after another.
Liu Yijun's "thinness" is also a kind of "dedication"!
Many netizens like this "cute uncle" and also comment that "the new capital era needs actors like Liu Yijun".
Yes, there are many good actors in virtue and art, will the spring of Chinese opera be far away?