Birth of an artistic family
On November 30, 1936, a little girl was born, because her father was in the drama class, her mother eloped with her father, and when she was born, she was put in the theater, and then this girl named Zhou Caiqin began her legendary life.
Her father was a famous dramatist, and her mother was a famous woman in the society at that time, and she fell in love with art from an early age under the influence of art. In 1950, after taking the last family portrait in the family, the mother sent several of her children abroad in order to let her children have a better development in the future, and Cai Qin was the same, and at the age of seventeen, she was sent to the Royal Academy of Drama in the United Kingdom to study. Before leaving, her mother gave her a watch, and then she said goodbye to her father, and when she said goodbye, his father told her never to forget that she was Chinese.
Later, she said that in fact, it was difficult for the Royal Academy of Drama to enter, but she didn't think much about it at the time and went in. In Britain at that time, there was a stereotypical view of Asian women, thinking that they were short in stature, weak in personality, and cute people, but Cai Qin's bones were very stubborn. Whether it's in the future career or life.
While studying at the Royal Academy of Drama, Cai Qin met her first husband, who was doing business in Hong Kong and later in England. After getting married, Cai Qin found that her husband's thinking was rigid, and she hoped to stay at home and teach her husband and children. But CaiQin has her own ideals, wants to have her own career, and is not tied up by family and marriage. Later, when her husband returned to Singapore, Celery and her children lived in a very dilapidated house, and her attempt to apply for a better apartment was rejected, and in the end, she had to leave the child in the nursery, and when she got to the back, her husband took the child away.
The first peak of the career
Cai Qin began to focus on her career, for the dream of an actor, Cai Qin began to take on some clichéd roles, in 1958, and Ingrid Boro participated in "Luk Fook Inn", and soon after, this small girl with oriental dark hair greeted the first peak of her life.
Because Taiwan wanted to establish artistic ties with Britain, it invited a Peking Opera company, because Cai Qin knew a little peking opera, and she was Chinese, and she would Chinese, and she was lucky enough to be selected as the host. When she stood on stage in a well-tailored cheongsam, people exclaimed that she resembled Audrey Hepburn, and at this time, she met her first nobleman, Donald Albury, the most famous producer in Britain at the time, who invited her to play the role of Suss Yellow. She became a hit, although the film was not favored by many film critics, but it did not hinder its commercial success, and the society blew up a burst of Sus Yellow fashion, and girls learned that she had long black hair and wore a miniskirt. For a time, the pick of celery was immeasurable.
The second peak was CaiQin's singing career, and songs such as The Dingbong Bong were loved.
Although piracy did not allow her to make a dime from her music, stage performances made her profitable.
The trough of life
What is 40 years old for modern us, midlife crisis, confusion or other, 40 years old is also not friendly to celery picking.
After separating from her second husband, in 1970, a serious economic crisis broke out in the United Kingdom, real estate began to collapse, forty-year-old CaiQin originally had a house in London with three apartments, before she also bought most of the money she earned into a property, with the outbreak of the economic crisis and the collapse of real estate, Cai Qin became nothing overnight, and at this time, the news of her mother's departure came again.
If there is no previous highlight moment, perhaps such a blow is just a bad life, but there is a contrast of the past highlight moments, but it puts pressure on CaiQin, she chose to commit suicide, fortunately, she has very good friends around her who have always cared about her, and before this, she noticed that she was depressed, so when she committed suicide, her friend saved him and sent her to the hospital (mental hospital) for treatment. Ordinary people may choose to spend the rest of their lives in a mental hospital. But she was not, she was Zhou Caiqin, and one day when she looked at herself in the mirror, she secretly said to herself, she can't live like this. So she got out of the hospital, went to the United States, and went to her brother in Los Angeles. Her brother ran a famous restaurant in Los Angeles, where she worked as a waiter, but because both of them had more egotistical personalities, she chose to leave in the end.
Start all over again
In 1976, she went to Boston, when she did not have a penny, for her, everything she had paid in the past was in vain, whether it was wealth savings or glory, without the luxury of life in London, in order to survive, she found a job as a factory typist, but was fired because she shortened the print content without permission. Then she went to work as a librarian in college. After barely solving her survival problems, she began to listen to her inner call and spent three dollars to buy a coat, hat, and shoes to audition at the "Poor Man's Theater."
Fate will favor the person who tries not to give up, and it is these three-dollar props that open up her second brilliant life of nearly 40 years after the age of 40. The turning point in life is happening again. She met Joanna, the director of the Cambridge Drama Club, and participated in stage plays such as Acarmenon and Red Letters, and began to be welcomed. Although she was still living in the basement apartment in Harvard Square in Boston, it did not hinder her love of the stage, and slowly, because of the popularity of acting, she began to teach acting classes at school.
Friends commented on her that her bravery in life was greater than her bravery on stage. She said lightly: If I am gentle, I will die. Yes, in the face of tribulation, she must be brave.
52 years old is the age of near retirement for us, for Caiqin, it is indeed another peak period of her career, such a highlight moment, from her persistence in her stage dream, from the tenacious vitality in the face of setbacks,
In 1988, at the age of 52, she published her autobiography in English, "The Daughter of Shanghai."
In 1993, at the age of 57, she starred in the movie "Happy Luck Club"
In 1998, at the age of 62, she participated in the drama "Golden Boy"
In 2005, at the age of 69, she starred in the TV series "Grey's Anatomy", and in the same year, she participated in the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha"
In 2010, at the age of 74, she participated in the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber"
In 2016, at the age of 80, she participated in the movie "Amazing Demon Bandits"
Now 84 years old, she is an actress, writer, and teacher, and the setbacks in her life have allowed her to live a more open identity and make her life more powerful after the age of 40.
And 20, 30, 40, 50, even if we are 60 years old, no matter what kind of setbacks we encounter today or in the future, look at the perseverance of the grandmother, life is worth our bravery.
So, come on! juvenile.
Reference to "Daughter of Shanghai"