Tao Zeru was medium-sized, dark-skinned, and walked inconspicuously in the crowd.
But it is such an ordinary-looking man who has created a classic role in 110 film and television dramas such as "Evening Bell", "Yin and Yang Realm", "Black Hole", "Migrant Worker of Survival", "Wuliu Town", "Killing Tiger's Mouth", "Favorite", "Hundred Regiments War" and so on.
He has won the Best Actor Award of the Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Films, the Outstanding Actor Award of the 16th Chinese TV Series "Feitian Award" and other honors, and is recognized as an actor of the acting school.
Tao Ze in life is a good husband who loves his family, debuted for more than 40 years, he has never had a scandal, and his first love wife Yang Lili fell in love until he was old...
Tao Zeru, born in Nanjing on December 7, 1953, graduated from Nanjing Academy of arts and is a national first-class actor.
He is currently the dean of the School of Film and Television of Nanjing University of the Arts and the chairman of the Jiangsu Filmmakers Association.
Tao Zeru, who has won major heavyweight awards in China, including the Golden Rooster Award, the Feitian Award, the Huabiao Award, the Golden Jue Award, etc., is the darling of the fifth generation of Chinese directors.
Tao Zeru, born in 1953 in a family of ordinary workers along the Yangtze River, his father is a Peking Opera ticket fan, from childhood like to practice his voice at home, Tao Zeru likes to listen to his father singing.
Perhaps inherited from his father's genes, Tao Zeru's voice is also naturally good, and he also likes to sing since he was a child.
In the 1970s, opera was in decline, cinema had not yet become mainstream culture, and drama was just emerging as a popular favorite.
In 1973, Tao Zeru was admitted to the Nanjing Academy of the Arts to study drama, and in 1977, he officially became a drama actor in the Nanjing Repertory Theatre.
Tao Zeru's first film was "One and Eight" with Chen Daoming, when the director of this film went to the casting, he hoped to find a simple actor with a strong body and a dark face, and Tao Zeru was selected.
"One and Eight" as the pioneering work of the fifth generation of directors, but it is a good thing and a lot of wear, and it took a lot of trouble to be released. (This seems to indicate that films starring Tao Zeru in the future are often stranded for various reasons.) In the end, it neither hit the high box office nor won an award. But everyone in the circle knows that there is a powerful young actor Tao Zeru. At that time, Tao Zeru silently told himself: "Since I want to do performance, I should be able to stand with performance in ten years." "——— Tao Zeru did not want to become famous in one fell swoop, but had a long-term plan to sharpen a sword for ten years.
Since then, Tao Zeru has formed an indissoluble relationship with the fifth generation of directors, and his dark and strange face is full of toughness and stubbornness, which is very different from the handsome little student who was popular at that time, but coincides with the themes of yellow earth, heaviness, and suffering that the fifth generation of directors want to express. So in the days to come, Tao Zeru almost became the darling of the fifth generation of directors.
His collaboration with Wu Ziniu is the most representative.
In 1986, Tao Zeru starred in "The Last Winter Day" directed by Wu Ziniu, which opened the prelude to the cooperation with Wu Ziniu. When Wu Ziniu saw Tao Zeru's face that seemed to bear the mark of the "fifth generation" and his eyes full of vicissitudes and sadness, he said: "You were born for movies, if there is no accident, you can act for a lifetime." In the following days, Wu Ziniu seemed to pose a posture of cooperating with Tao Zeru for a lifetime. In addition to "The Last Winter", Tao Zeru also starred in Wu Ziniu's "Evening Bell", "Happy Hero", "Yin and Yang Realm", "Sun Mountain", "Big Mill", "Nanjing Massacre" and other films.
In 1989, Wu Ziniu's "Evening Bell" won the "Silver Bear Award" at the 39th West Berlin International Film Festival. Tao Zeru also won the Best Actor Award at the 9th Golden Rooster Award for his outstanding performances in films such as "Evening Bell" and "Happy Hero".
In addition to cooperating with Zhang Junzhao and Wu Ziniu, Tao Zeru also starred in "My September" directed by another fifth-generation director, Yin Li. In this decade, Tao Zeru has also cooperated with other directors and has performed well in films such as "Chen Geng's Suffering", "Chen Geng Escapes From Danger", "Gunshots in the Solun Valley", "Widow's Village", "Distant Mountain Love", "Fire and Grudge" and other films. Tao Zeru's decade ended successfully with the TV series "Dream Breaking Qinglou". In this film, he starred in a bad cop from the thirties.
In Liu Heng's "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin", Zhang Damin issued such an exclamation to his sister: "How can such a good girl not have a boyfriend?" And many people inside and outside the circle can't help but sigh to Tao Zeru: "Why doesn't such an excellent actor become popular?" ”
Another reason why Tao Zeru is half red and not purple seems to be self-inflicted: he consciously or unconsciously maintains a casual relationship with commercial films.
He has told the media many times: "I don't want to become an acting businessman, acting is purely a means of doing business." I almost, almost became such a person, the actor is to create the role. ”
In 1999, Tao Zeru gave up a lot of work and returned to his alma mater, Nanjing Academy of the Arts, to pick up the girder of the head of the film and television department, hoping to pass on all his years of acting experience to his students.
Tao Zeru: A shadow emperor who is not like a movie emperor!
Peng Dehuai, played by Tao Zeru in "Hundred Regiments War", is resolute and agile, mighty and proud, but what is unexpected is that Tao Zeru has actually passed the age of flower armor.
Tao Zeru is not a high-yield actor, but every work he shoots is called a classic, whether it is the early works such as "Dahong Rice Shop" and "Red Lover", or the later "Nursing Woman" and "Birds and Phoenix", the style of each work is different, Tao Zeru is an old drama bone who constantly pursues artistic innovation, and the works in which he participated have won many awards.
Looking back on the past few decades of acting, Tao Zeru can be described as brilliant all the way. Today, in addition to being a national first-class actor, Tao Zeru also serves as the dean of the Film and Television School of Nanjing University of the Arts and the chairman of the Jiangsu Filmmakers Association.
Tao Zeru has acted in dramas all his life, there is no scandal, and it is not red, but the "old drama bones" are well deserved.
Tao Zeru's love life is very simple, and his wife Yang Lili is a classmate of college, but when they go to school, the two have no special intersection.
8 years after graduation, Yang Lili worked in the Lanzhou Song and Dance Troupe, Tao Zeru just happened to perform in the past, the two reacquainted themselves under such circumstances, and when they talked, they found that the two had been in the same time period and on the same campus for several years, and they felt the wonder of fate.
Tao Zeru is very fond of singing, while Yang Lili is very good at playing the piano and harp, and the two will work together in their spare time.
With the slow contact, Yang Lili found that Teacher Tao is a very reliable person, serious in work, and steadfast in life, so that she has an inexplicable sense of security, and the relationship between the two is one step closer.
There is a song called "Once Upon a Time Slow" that sings: "Once upon a time, the carriages and horses were very slow, and there was only enough to love one person in a lifetime." ”
The acquaintance and love of Teacher Tao and his wife is similar to this.
In order to live with her husband, after marriage, Yang Lili applied for a job transfer from the song and dance troupe and entered the editor-in-chief office of Jiangsu Television Station.
Their marriage room is a 12 square meter bungalow that the unit assigns to Tao Zeru, with mottled walls and poor lighting in the room. Yang Lili, who came from a cadre family, did not complain for half a word.
In 1989, Tao Zeru won the Best Actor Award of the "Golden Rooster Award" of Chinese films for his wonderful appearance in "Evening Bell", "Yin and Yang Realm" and "Happy Hero".
After becoming famous, Tao Zeru's living conditions did not improve much, and he still lived in a bungalow with his wife. At that time, Tao Zeru made a lot of films, but at that time, there was no remuneration for filming, and he lived on a meager salary.
In July 1991, her daughter Lulu was born, and Yang Lili had become the director of Jiangsu Television. Tao Zeru often shoots outside, and Yang Lili carries her daughter to work on her back.
In 2000, Tao Zeru was invited to serve as the dean of the Film and Television School of Nanjing University of the Arts, where he gave lessons to students while filming. Until this time, Tao Zeru bought a three-bedroom apartment in Nanjing, and the family of three finally moved out of the snail house.
Since 2005, Tao Zeru has shifted his career focus to Beijing.
In 2009, her daughter Lulu graduated from Nanjing Foreign Chinese School and was sent to Beijing Language and Culture University.
In 2012, Yang Lili retired and came to Beijing from Nanjing to live, and the family of three was reunited in Beijing. Yang Lili did not apply powder, cleaned up the housework at home, and supported her husband in filming as before.
Tao Zeru and his daughter.
Tao Zeru has been famous for more than 40 years, has never had a scandal, and is recognized as a good man in the show business circle.
Teacher Tao has never had any scandals in his life, and only puts his mind on his home, which is rare in the entertainment circle that is now muddy waters.
Tao Zeru has played "inconspicuous" small characters all his life, but he has left many classic images in the history of Chinese film development.
On his 65th birthday, the CCTV Movie Channel also sent a special blessing to praise his contribution to China's acting career. Such treatment is really enviable, and it can be blessed by CCTV, which shows that CCTV also agrees with Tao Zeru's strength.
Some people have been doing some small things all their lives, and when we sum up and look at it again, we find that it is all some great big things.
In this life, no matter what kind of work they do, they should be as down-to-earth as Teacher Tao in order to walk happier.
By July 2021, Tao Zeru and Yang Lili have been married for 34 years, and the two have fallen in love from young to old, their feelings are becoming more and more sincere, their hearts are getting tighter and tighter, and they are more and more inseparable from each other.
Falling in love with the first love wife to the old age, few male actors in the show business circle can do it, let us praise Tao Zeru!