When it comes to the name Ding Yongdai, many people may not be familiar with it.
But when you think of the classic roles he played, you will definitely realize.
For example, "Emperor Liang" in "Langya List", Andy's father Wei Guoqiang in "Ode to Joy", Lin Maogen, the "Feed King" in "An Jia"...
As an old drama bone with excellent acting skills, Ding Yongdai can be said to be a typical actor in the entertainment industry who is not popular.
It is only in recent years that the audience has discerned the pearls and gradually come to know this treasure drama bone.
However, at this time, Ding Yongdai has reached middle age and has already become an actor with late formation.
In addition to good acting skills and low-key people, Ding Yongdai is a well-known and excellent man in the entertainment industry.
Married to his first love, debuted without any scandal, and was even praised as the "cleanest actor" in the show business circle.
This old drama bone Ding Yongdai, who deserves to be loved by everyone, should have shined a long time ago.
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Ding Yongdai was born in Shandong in 1958, but grew up in Inner Mongolia.
At that time, his parents went to support the construction of the frontier, so Ding Yongdai was taken to Baotou to live from an early age.
Ding Yongdai is not like many old drama bones, either born in a literary and artistic family, or he has been influenced by art since childhood.
Ding Yongdai's favorite thing since he was a child is to play football, and he has no concept of performance.
When he went to school, ding Yongdai went to the football field the most every day in addition to classes.
Ding Yongdai, who loves to play football, dreams of becoming a professional football player when he grows up.
It is said that Ding Yongdai was also favored by a professional football team coach and wanted to concentrate on cultivating him.
Unfortunately, fate still let him rub shoulders with football and became a pity.
When the coach saw him, he found that Ding Yongdai had a leg injury and could not play at all.
Since then, Ding Yongdai's dream of football has been completely shattered, and his life has suddenly lost its direction.
After graduating from high school, Ding Yongdai went to the factory to find a job and became a temporary worker who sifted sand.
At this time, Ding Yongdai did not know what he wanted to do in the future, just thinking about having a job and making a living.
Ding Yongdai, a temporary worker who sisha, has been doing it for 3 years.
This job was boring and hard, and it didn't make much money, which made Ding Yongdai completely confused for a while.
At that time, Ding Yongdai, who was not working, especially liked to watch movies to pass the time and eliminate boredom in his heart.
Once, he watched a movie called "The Wanderer" and was instantly moved by the protagonist's story.
Since then, Ding Yongdai has had the idea of becoming an actor in his heart and found the direction of life.
After resigning from the factory, Ding Yongdai began to chase his acting dreams non-stop, and his life also took a fortunate turn.
Later, Ding Yongdai, who was interested in acting, met a teacher in a drama troupe and clicked on him at once.
At the suggestion of the teacher, Ding Yongdai applied for the Inner Mongolia Art School, but he was admitted unexpectedly, and he still studied drama performance.
At this time, Ding Yongdai finally clarified his lifelong dream and became an excellent actor in the future.
When Ding Yongdai entered the school, his professional grades were not the best in his class.
But he is studious and diligent, and when he graduated, his grades were directly among the best.
So in 1981, Ding Yongdai participated in his first TV series "The Sini Lama".
In 1983, after graduating from the Inner Mongolia Art School, Ding Yongdai directly entered the Inner Mongolia Repertory Theatre as an actor.
As we all know, the actors who act in dramas have excellent acting skills, and Ding Yongdai is even more so.
With his outstanding appearance and solid acting skills, Ding Yongdai soon became a pillar of the troupe.
Successively in the "King of Fighters", "Garland Under the Mountain", "Heaven and Earth People" and other dramas, all the male protagonists were included.
And this drama road, he acted for 10 years.
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The so-called ten years to sharpen a sword.
In 1993, Ding Yongdai, who had acted in dramas for more than a decade, finally began to appear on the big screen and show his style.
He successively participated in "Heavenly Road" and "Military Sister-in-law", and won three awards such as the Feitian Award.
However, although Ding Yongdai is the protagonist on the drama stage, he has not been able to become popular in film and television dramas.
Three years later, Ding Yongdai, who continued to act in dramas, ushered in an opportunity to participate in the male lead of the film for the first time.
He played the role of Yang Jingyu in "White Mountains and Black Water", which won the Changchun Film Studio's "Little Hundred Flowers" Special Award.
And Ding Yongdai, who has always been unknown, was able to transform into the development of the show business circle and began to accumulate thick and thin.
In 2000, Ding Yongdai starred in a criminal investigation drama "The End of the Road", playing the role of the gangster "Bai Baoshan".
With this role, Ding Yongdai can be regarded as a real sense of gradual fame.
That year, he was 42 years old, and although he opened up the drama road, he did not become a big hit.
In the subsequent acting career, Ding Yongdai also became the most underestimated and neglected powerful actor in the show business circle.
In 2002, he collaborated with Chen Daoming to play policeman Jiang Han in the TV series Winter Solstice.
At the age of 46, he was also named "one of the three cool men on TV screens" by Beijing Youth Daily.
With excellent acting skills, Ding Yongdai's films began to increase, with an average of about three or four dramas a year.
Played Chen Jin's husband in "Zhang Lihong's Modern Life";
In "Married Couple", he cooperated with Chen Jin again, playing Bai Birch, vice president of the bank;
Played the good man Zhuang Hong'an in "The North Wind That Blows".....
In 2013, Ding Yongdai participated in the movie "Allure", playing the little policeman Wang Laoshi.
With this role, he won the Most Powerful Actor Award at the Canadian Film Festival at the Beijing University Student Film Festival.
Two years later, Ding Yongdai completely ushered in his own popular day, which was not easy.
In 2015, the TV series "Langya List" became popular on the screen for a time, and also set off a ratings frenzy.
Ding Yongdai played the role of "Liang Emperor" with an extreme personality and extreme suspicion in the play, and began to become extremely popular.
At this time, Ding Yongdai was well known by countless audiences and finally became popular.
That year, he was 57 years old, and the real big thing was late.
After becoming popular, Ding Yongdai began to exert his strength, shaping various classic roles one after another.
Played Father Zhou in "The Running Years";
Played Lin Maogen in "An Jia";
Played Huang Youfa in "Trident".
In recent years, Ding Yongdai has finally ushered in his own spring with decades of perseverance.
Although it came a little late, it was always shiny and shiny, and it did not waste its original intention.
In addition to being extremely low-key in his acting career, Ding Yongdai is a good man who is ignored in life.
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Ding Yongdai's wife was her first love, and it was love at first sight that she formed a lifelong fate.
The wife is a simple and temperamental teacher, and the acquaintance of the two is also a special fate.
Ding Yongdai's father-in-law and mother-in-law used to work with him in a drama troupe and lived in the same courtyard.
Once, when my wife returned home from Beijing to visit her family, she happened to run into Ding Yongdai, who lived in a courtyard.
After the two looked at each other and smiled, Ding Yongdai fell in love with his wife at first sight and immediately pursued her.
He said: "Who I like, who I chase".
This kind of thing is really wonderful, the two people from acquaintance to love, in just one year to talk about marriage to the point of marriage.
In the year of marriage, Ding Yongdai was 28 years old, his wife was 24 years old, and it was still his first love.
In that era, from love to marriage, everything was simple and simple, but the love was stronger than gold.
Soon after marriage, they had a lovely son Ding Ning, and the life of a family of three has always been plain and happy.
In those years, Ding Yongdai struggled desperately for his acting career, and his wife was at ease at home to teach her husband and son, and became the woman behind him.
From acquaintance to marriage, the two have been 35 years now, and have been low-key together, and the marriage is happy.
Ding Yongdai, who often works hard in the flashy entertainment industry, has not had any scandals since the moment he met his wife.
Unlike many couples in the entertainment industry, Ding Yongdai can be described as a real clear stream.
He is clean and self-righteous, and he is also praised by the media as the "cleanest actor" in the show business circle, which shows how good Ding Yongdai's reputation is.
Now that Ding Yongdai is 62 years old, he is still active on the screen and is becoming more and more popular with the audience.
He debuted for nearly 40 years, portraying countless classic roles, and did not fully become popular until the age of 57.
Some people also say that until now, Ding Yongdai is still the kind of actor who is not popular in the drama and the audience does not know his name.
But if you think about it, the audience is impressed and unforgettable about the role he plays, is this not a success as an actor?
For the fact that it has not been able to become popular and is rarely mentioned by the audience, he joked:
"If you want to be a small fresh meat, you can't be an idol, so you can't eat by your ability."