Actress Zhou Xun has recently been very prolific, she has just received a wave of praise for "Meritorious Service", and then there is a new drama with a strong sense of life, "Xiao MinJia", which is ready to be broadcast.
Playing Zhou Xun's mother in this drama is the actor Liu Lili, the name may not be too well-known, but as long as you see Liu Lili's face, most viewers will have a feeling that it was originally her.
Yes, Liu Lili has played a number of mothers-in-law and mothers in these years, including many powerful roles.
In the play, she always interprets some temperamental elders to the fullest, but in fact, Liu Lili is not like this at all outside the play.
She is low-key, easy-going, and an introverted person. Perhaps because she is too low-key, the outside world has been rumored that actress Zhou Xiaobin is her husband.
So what are the facts? What kind of life story does Liu Lili have along the way?
Today, let's talk about Liu Lili outside the play.
01
In the spring of 1958, Liu Lili was born in a family with a strong literary atmosphere.
Her father worked as a choreographer, and her mother studied in the dance training class of Dai Ailian, who was known as the mother of Chinese dance during her lifetime.
As the saying goes, a famous teacher makes a high apprentice, and Liu Lili's mother entered the railway literary troupe with her father after graduation.
Her parents' work created a good opportunity for Liu Lili to be educated by art, and since she was a child, she was often taken to the rehearsal hall by her mother, and the dancers rehearsed on the field, and Liu Lili obediently sat on the side to watch.
Over time, she gradually fell in love with dance, but what really prompted her to embark on the road of literature and art was a multiple choice question.
In the mid-1970s, 17-year-old Liu Lili caught up with the tail end of the special era, and among the two only options for going to the countryside and becoming a soldier, Liu Lili's family was of course more inclined to the latter.
That year, Liu Lili, who graduated from high school, was admitted to the 197th Division of the 66th Army of the People's Liberation Army with the encouragement of her mother and became a literary and artistic soldier.
It is worth mentioning that this team is full of talents, and Liu Peiqi, an old actor who is now highly acclaimed in the show business circle, also came out of the 66 Army.
According to Liu Lili's recollection, she was assigned to Tangshan at that time, although the conditions were difficult, but a group of like-minded young people were also happy to get together.
Liu Lili's personality has been calm and serious since childhood, and during that time she was more focused on dancing, although her dance was getting better and better, but at the same time, the pain also found her.
In fact, dancers have more or less experienced injuries, and some even seriously affect their health and performance on the stage, and at this time, changing careers has become the only way out.
Wang Siyi, who once became popular with the role of Pan Jinlian, embarked on the road of acting in this way, and Liu Lili was the same, but at the beginning of her decision to learn acting, the feedback she got was questionable.
02
In 1979, at the age of 21, Liu Lili enrolled in art school.
While taking the exam at the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, she prepared a recitation called "Haiyan Ring".
When she stood in the examination room and expressed the state of old Haiyan and Xiao Haiyan in two different tones, the eyes of one of the department leaders lit up, but the other teachers shook their heads in unison when they saw Liu Lili's image.
It turned out that when Liu Lili was young, some babies were fat and had a very round face, which did not conform to the aesthetics of the teachers.
But the head of the department is very optimistic about this very malleable girl, in order to keep Liu Lili, the head of the department found the dean and said, leave this candidate, you will not regret it.
In this way, Liu Lili stepped on the controversy and entered the military drama performance class, and with her in the same class were Liu Peiqi, Wu Ruofu, Wu Gang and other famous actors.
At that time, Liu Lili's teammates were incredulous when they learned about this matter, for the simple reason that her personality was too quiet, and being silent in everyone's heart was the label on Liu Lili.
In other words, she doesn't seem to have a desire to perform, so how can such a person be an actor?
In fact, the worries of her teammates are not unreasonable, Liu Lili herself has said that when she was a child, she was scared when she talked to the conductor, and she really did not have an advantage in expression.
But she still firmly stayed in the acting class to study, because Liu Lili knew in her heart that acting is acting and life is life.
In fact, although Liu Lili's entry process was bumpy and not optimistic about the outside world, she performed very well in the class, and the lines and sketches Liu Lili could be completed very well, and she also held the position of class leader at that time.
The classmates saw that Liu Lili was quiet and elegant, and gave her the nickname Big Cat.
Several years of college life are fleeting, and after graduation, Liu Lili officially embarked on the road of acting. Interestingly, her process of becoming famous is different from many actresses, but it is very similar to Xue Aunt Wang Lin.
03
In 1989, the rural theme TV series "Fences, Women and Dogs" met with the audience.
In this drama, Liu Lili's qiaogu played by Liu Lili has attracted everyone's attention, this character is shrewd and capable, spicy and difficult, and is a completely negative character in the eyes of the audience.
Even today, 30 years later, people still remember Qiaogu when they mention this drama.
It is hard to imagine how much hard work she has put into making a character with a huge contrast with herself so successful.
It is said that when filming this drama, Liu Lili, in addition to the daily bed fee of 3 yuan and 6 yuan, finally got a salary of 2,000 yuan.
However, for the actors at that time, the remuneration was not important, what mattered was whether they had created the role well.
After "Fences: Women and Dogs", Liu Lili also starred in two other parts of the rural trilogy.
As her career gradually stabilized, her lifelong events became the focus of her family's concern. You know, at that time, Liu Lili was already in her early 30s, and in that era, this was already an older youth.
When it comes to Liu Lili's marriage, we have to talk about Zhou Xiaobin, and many people say that these two actors are husband and wife.
But in fact, when Liu Lili got married, Zhou Xiaobin had just come to Beijing from Harbin and was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, and when Zhou Xiaobin's daughter was born, Liu Lili's daughter was already 10 years old.
The two of them were just working together, and the reason why they were mistaken for a family was because they were on a show called "Husband and Wife World" when they promoted the new drama.
Liu Lili's husband is actually an outsider, he is engaged in the IT research and development industry, in life this gentleman is very wise, elegant, he and Liu Lili have a very good chat since they met each other, and soon stepped into the siege.
04
In 1994, Liu Lili's husband wanted to go abroad to develop a career, and Liu Lili, who was family-oriented, suspended her work and accompanied her husband to live abroad.
A year later, she gave birth to a lovely daughter.
At the same time, Liu Lili also took her parents abroad to live together, after that, husband and son, serving her parents became the main content of Liu Lili's life.
It was not until a few years later that her husband returned to China to develop that Liu Lili returned to the show business to continue her career, but since then, she has almost become a professional household of her mother.
In this regard, Liu Lili never thinks that she has sacrificed her career for her family, which in her view is something that children, wives, and mothers should do wholeheartedly.
Although the image created by Liu Lili is mostly spicy, she has done it in life to make every relative praise.
In 2010, Liu Lili also became one of the top ten filial piety honorees in the acting industry.
When it comes to family affection, Liu Lili, who has always been quiet and reticent, has become very talkative.
She confessed that she had experienced the pain of losing her grandparents in 20 days, and she realized that filial piety to her elders was something that could not wait.
Liu Lili's mother has suffered from high blood pressure since she was in her 30s, and once developed very seriously, in order to buy drugs that have a therapeutic effect on her mother's condition, she does not like to socialize and entrusts people to carry drugs everywhere.
Later, she also took her mother abroad for treatment, and thankfully, under Liu Lili's careful care, her mother's condition improved day by day.
Solving her mother's illness, Liu Lili began to care about the spiritual life of her parents again, although she was also very busy with her comeback filming at that time, but as long as there was time, Liu Lili would take her parents to see movies.
Everything she did for her parents was seen by her daughter, the sensible girl who saw her mother as someone she admired and relied on.
05
Liu Lili returned to the role of an actress after her daughter went to kindergarten, and both mother and daughter were initially very uncomfortable with the separation.
Especially the daughter, at that time she was always nauseous and vomiting in kindergarten, and the doctor diagnosed that this was a stress response after not finding her mother, and she needed to get used to it slowly.
After a while, the daughter's situation disappeared, but a new challenge was placed in front of their mother and daughter.
Around 2000, Liu Lili and Liu Wei prepared to cooperate in the TV series "Family Portrait", which needed to be filmed in other places, and before leaving, Liu Lili recorded a story tape for her daughter, hoping to ease her daughter's emotions.
But what she did not expect was that at the moment of walking into the airport, she herself cried first because she was worried about her daughter.
And the tape that Liu Lili left for her daughter did not play much role, and when she heard the mother's voice coming from the tape, her daughter's tears also seemed to flow down as if they could not stop.
This situation gradually eases as the child grows up day by day.
Although Liu Lili is often absent from home after her comeback, her relationship with her daughter is closer.
Because no matter how busy she is filming outside, as long as she returns home, Liu Lili always does her daughter's things herself.
Even though she was tired after just a dozen scenes that day, she would get up early the next day to prepare breakfast for her daughter.
She always says little to outsiders, and every time she comes back from filming in other places, she will have a long talk with her daughter.
Because Liu Lili usually respects her daughter very much and never peeks at her daughter's things, her daughter also has complete trust in her, and the two people talk about everything, just like a pair of year-old friends.
Now Liu Lili's daughter has graduated from Brown University, one of the Ivy League schools in the United States, and has become her mother's pride.
06
At first glance, Liu Lili's life seems to be very smooth, as a literary and artistic soldier, entering an art college, having a long career and a happy family.
But all this is actually exchanged for her serious attitude, her serious life, but also serious filming.
In "Tangshan Earthquake", Liu Lili played a mother who experienced the Wenchuan earthquake, and her scene was only more than a minute in the film, but in order to meet the character's feelings, Liu Lili did not eat for two days.
The effect presented in the end is indeed shocking, and many viewers have greatly praised Liu Lili's play.
Seeing this, many people may think that Liu Lili is a quiet and unmoving person in her life, but in fact, she has a vibrant hobby, that is, fitness.
Her daughter once broke the news that even if she was busy late, her mother would stand on the treadmill to complete the day's training volume.
Once the actor He Bing met Liu Lili who was exercising in the gym, and after seeing Liu Lili's training volume, He Bing bowed to her.
Because of her love of fitness, she even won the reputation of the female version of Zhang Fengyi.
Zhang Fengyi, who had never worked with Liu Lili, himself took the initiative to call a greeting call after hearing about it.
Now that Liu Lili is 63 years old, Song Dandan, a veteran actor in the same age group as her, has already announced her retirement, but Liu Lili said that I am willing to carry out the acting career until the age of 80.
This is Liu Lili, a cute woman who is both quiet and quiet, serious and elegant.