In the early 1980s, reform and opening up had just begun, and domestic TV dramas were also in their infancy. In 1982, Guangdong Television took the lead in producing and broadcasting the TV series "Shrimp Ball Biography", don't watch the drama only 8 episodes, but because there were very few TV dramas at that time, the drama was broadcast, it immediately swept the streets and alleys, and the theme song sung by Cheng Fangyuan also became a popular song that people rushed to sing:
"They all say that the sea is bitter and salty, and who knows the sorrow and bitterness of the wandering." Scars all over the body, full of hatred, ah wanderer's footprints, blood and tears. O wandering wanderer, wandering wandering, wandering wanderer's footprints, blood and tears..."
The male No. 1 shrimp ball and the female No. 1 Ah Di played by Zhong Hao and Mai Wenyan in "Shrimp Ball Legend" became well-known actors that people talked about after tea and dinner overnight, and they were popular all over the country.
Today, do you remember the actors of this pair of young boys and girls, Zhong Hao and Mai Wenyan?
Especially Mai Wenyan, in that era, her beauty seemed to be extremely rare, foreign, feminine, sexy, fashionable, is the representative of this type of actress.
Why is Mak Man Yan different from the young actresses of that era? Because she has French ancestry.
Mai Wenyan, born in Beijing in 1961, is a native of Guangdong. Because her grandfather was French, she had a distinctly mixed-race temperament that was lacking in actresses of the year.
In 1980, the Guangdong Television Actors Troupe recruited actors, and Mai Wenyan applied for the examination and was fortunately admitted. Soon, the TV series "Shrimp Ball Legend" needs an actor who plays the ship's daughter Ah Di, and Mai Wenyan, who has a unique temperament, is selected.
With the popularity of "Shrimp Ball Biography", Mai Wenyan also became popular.
After that, Mai Wenyan starred in nearly 20 film and television dramas, such as "A Family in water town", "An Arrest Warrant Is About to Be Issued", "Farewell to the End of the World", "A Generation of Winds", "This is not a misunderstanding", "Blood, always hot", "The Deal Under the Noose Rack", "Two Midnight", "Furong Town", "Under the Eaves of Shanghai", "The Mystery of Qin Keqing" and so on.
The biggest feature of Mai Wenyan is the ability to shape the role, whether it is the fisherman girl wearing a bucket in "The Legend of shrimp balls", or the social flowers in "A Generation of Winds", whether it is the female horse boy of the smuggling gang in "The Transaction Under the Noose Rack", or the female military doctor in "Furong Town", whether it is the abandoned Hong Kong businessman lady in "Two Midnight", or the delicate and lovely big miss Li Kexin in "Wisteria Garden", etc., the roles are very different, which also reflects Mai Wenyan's strong acting skills.
McVann's star path is bright. But what no one expected was that with the tide of going abroad that year, she and her sister Mai Xiaoqin went to the United States for further study. Later stayed there, but never reached the heights it once was.
Mai Wenyan's sister Mai Xiaoqin is a member of the 84-level undergraduate class of the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy, and is a classmate of Wang Zhiwen, Hu Yajie, Zhu Biyun, and Gao Baobao.
Mai Xiaoqin's representative works mainly include "Daughter of the Sun", "Return to the Earth", "The Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces", "Makeup Artist and Cartoonist", "Surrender", "Crazy Thief", "Goddess of Victory", "Burning Wedding Dress" and so on.
The pair of "film sisters" went abroad together that year, and judging from the public reports, the sister had returned to China, and the younger sister had not heard anything.
If the sisters did not leave that year, I am afraid that they would become stars known to women and children such as Liu Xiaoqing and Pan Hong, but there is no "if" in life...
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