In the 80s of the last century, there was a "wave of going abroad" in China. This boom began in Shanghai. At that time, as soon as the door of the country was opened, the eyes of many young people were turned abroad. It is said that at that time, the triangle garden on Fuxing Road in Shanghai was crowded every day, and young people who longed to go abroad formed a spontaneous "information exchange center" here. At the entrance of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, it is even more lively, and the queues for visas to go abroad here are sometimes lined up for miles.
In this craze, there is a team that is particularly conspicuous, that is, the female stars who became popular in the film industry in the 80s.
It seems that at that time, in everyone's impression, those female stars, as long as they became famous and became popular, would go abroad. Especially those beautiful beauty stars, even more so.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as Liu Xiaoqing, Pan Hong, and others who were red to purple at that time, and they did not catch up with this trend.
At that time, there were too many female stars who were catching up with the boom abroad, and it could be described as "going forward and following". Let's talk about 22 of them today. They were all very beautiful, very famous in the 80s, but unfortunately they all chose to go out, and several of them joined foreign nationals, and one of them has unfortunately passed away.
The first thing to talk about is Chen Chong, I think she is the starting point of this group of "female stars going abroad".
In 1979, she starred in a movie that was quite sensational at the time, "Little Flower", and became the third queen of the Hundred Flowers Awards with her innocent and simple performance. She was only 18 years old, and she had become a first-line actress, in today's words, with top traffic. At that time, the only actress in China who could compete with her was probably Liu Xiaoqing.
However, it was this little flower in the hearts of the Chinese people that in 1981, when she was most popular, she resolutely chose to go to the United States. She became a pioneer in the "overseas actresses" in the 80s. When she arrived in the United States, she lost all her star aura in China and earned a basic life by working in libraries and restaurants. Later, through hard work, she finally gained a foothold in the United States and became an American citizen. In 1985, when she returned to China to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, she began to say "you Chinese" in front of the audience.
Yang Hailian is the female star who went abroad after her. Before that, she became popular for playing Cun ni in the movie "The Forgotten Corner of Love". But in 1984, she also went to the United States. According to people familiar with the matter, she was seen serving dishes in restaurants and later became a staff member of a computer company in Silicon Valley.
In the Shanghai Film Studio, there were several good friends of Chen Chong, who later chose to go abroad. One of them is Zhang Yu. Both are very good actresses, and they have also starred in the movie "Youth" directed by Xie Jin. And she and Chen Chong became film queens in two years. Roles such as Zhou Jun, who she played in the movie "Lushan Love", and Xiao Yu, who played in "Little Street", are still in the hearts of fans. Unexpectedly, in 1985, like Chen Chong, she also went to the United States. He became an American citizen and became an American. However, she did not encounter better development opportunities in the United States, unlike Chen Chong, who became an "international star" by starring in "The Last Emperor". Zhang Yu also made many film and television dramas later, but the response was very limited.
Chen Ye is also a good friend of Chen Chong, and he entered the Shanghai Film Studio at about the same time as Chen Chong. She has starred in films such as "Unforgettable Battle", "405 Murder", "Danfeng Chaoyang" and so on, and she basically plays the heroine. It can be seen from this that she is actually a screen flower Dan who is focused on cultivating by the Shanghai Film Studio. But in 1986, she also went to the United States. Since then, the audience has rarely seen her on the screen again.
In 1986, she went to the United States to go to the Upper Film Studio actress, and Gong Xue. This beautiful woman in the hearts of many fans, a beautiful female star, is another domestic film queen. He has performed well in movies such as "Good Things and Many Grinding" and "Happy Bachelor". But soon after she became a golden rooster and a hundred flowers, she chose to settle in the United States. Since then, she has rarely made any more films, which is a pity.
In 1985, an actress from Beijing also went to the United States. This actress is Gak, who has starred in movies such as "Battlefield Star" and "Garland Under the Mountain". After going to the United States, she married a Chinese named Zhou Siren and gave birth to a daughter Yanyan after marriage. Unfortunately, Zhou Siren died soon after, leaving Gaike and his daughter to live together. Later, Gek returned to China and became a professional silver screen mother.
Luo Yan, the actor, do you remember? In 1983, she successfully portrayed the role of the heroine Kuang Yalan in the movie "Female College Dormitory", and became a well-known movie star. In 1985, she played the role of her sister quiet in the movie "The Girl in Red" and won an 800 yuan prize for this film. In 1986, Luo Yan relied on this bonus to go to the United States with Chen Ye, Gong Xue and others. In the United States, she worked as a waitress, a nanny, and eventually a producer.
Wu Junmei is 5 years younger than Chen Chong, but her performance in "The Last Emperor" is not worse than Chen Chong. Before this, because she had a mother Zhu Manfang who was an actor in the film studio, she got the opportunity to play a role in the movie "Long Live Youth". In 1987, she followed Chen Chong's footsteps to the United States, and in 1988, she starred in the movie "The Last Emperor" with Zun Long and Chen Chong. Like Chen Chong, she is one of the few Chinese female stars to have a place in the American film industry. She is now also an American.
In 1987, there was also a Chinese actress who became a foreigner, that is, Si Qinggaowa, who was equally famous as Pan Hong and Liu Xiaoqing in the 80s. At that time, her performance in the movies "Returning to the Heart Like an Arrow" and "Camel Shoko" can really be described by the word stunning. But she became Swiss because she met and married the Swiss-Chinese musician Chen Liangsheng.
In 1981, Wang Ji and Song Dandan were admitted to the Beijing Renyi Cadet Class together, and later became an artist, and participated in films such as "Treasure Hunting Outside the Plug", "Hero of grass recklessness", "Kyoto Ball Man" and so on. But in 1987, she also went to the United States, and it was quite difficult. Later, she got the opportunity to play the heroine Ah Chun in the TV series "Beijingers in New York", which made her re-recognized by the audience. And it is precisely because of the play "Beijingers in New York" that Wang Ji realized that a Chinese actress, only in China, will have more market and space to play. So she chose to develop in the domestic film and television circle.
In 1982, as soon as the movie "Shaolin Temple" was released, it caused a huge sensation and set off a wave of "learning martial arts for all". The male and female protagonists in the film, Jet Li and Ding Lan, have also become popular. However, these two leading actors have now joined the foreign nationality, Jet Li and the beautiful actress Ding Lan, who are now Singaporeans.
Li Yun graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, and his father, Li Zhiyu, is a teacher at the Shanghai Theater Academy and a well-known star. Li Yun has starred in film and television dramas such as "Midnight Song" and "On the Water Side" in China. Although she is not very beautiful, she is more than fresh in temperament, so she also has a certain popularity among the audience. She went to the United States in 1988 to marry and have children. However, like many female stars who went abroad, they experienced going abroad, getting married, divorcing, etc., and then they never made any good films.
Bai Ling's later appearance in public will always be so offbeat and exaggerated, which is surprising. But in fact, when she was in China, like Chen Chong, Ding Lan and other actresses in the 80s, she also took a pure route, and her performances in the movies "Beach" and "Moon Moon" were also very simple. But after she entered the United States in 1990, she was like a changed person, and when she reappeared, she wore heavy makeup and exaggerated her appearance, which made the majority of movie fans feel deeply uncomfortable. God knows what she's been through in America.
Cheng Xiaoying was also a very popular female star of the year, not only beautiful in appearance, but also outstanding in temperament, and had outstanding performances in the movies "Cherry Blossom", "Midnight", "Dance Love" and so on. But she also chose to go abroad in the 80s, but she did not go to the United States, but to Japan. Years later, when people saw her again, she was "very Japanese."
Wang Qinbao, who played Xiaolan in the movie "Little Characters" and BaiMei and Hongmei in "Plum Scarf", also went to Japan at the most popular time, and now there is no news.
Do you remember the actress Leng Mei? The movie "The Vibrato of Life", released in 1979, made her a goddess in the minds of many audiences. She went to Australia in 1989.
Yin Xin is actually a promising actress, who starred in the movie "Camel Shoko" with Sichenkova, and was loved by the audience for playing Xiaofuzi. It is also a pity that he went to the United States in the mid-1980s and suffered lifelong infertility due to multiple miscarriages.
In 1982, a TV series called "Shrimp Ball Biography" introduced the audience to Mai Wenyan, a gorgeous-looking actress, and later she also played a beautiful female doctor in Xie Jin's "Furong Town". But soon after she finished acting in "Furong Town", she went to the United States, and Xie Jin felt very sorry for this, thinking that he had lost a good actor.
Zhu Biyun looks petite and cute, quite spirited, a movie "Rouge", making her a goddess in the hearts of too many audiences. It is said that when the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" began filming, she was the best candidate for Xue Baochao. It is a pity that she chose to go abroad at that time, otherwise what we see may not be Xue Baochao, played by Zhang Li.
Li Xiaolu's mother, Zhang Weixin, was a standard beauty in the minds of many audiences in the 80s, especially her appearance in the movies "Flying Crane" and "Xiangyin", which was even more stunning. But in the 1980s, Zhang Weixin also became one of the many overseas actresses. But her English background is relatively poor, so the job is not easy to find, and later opened a restaurant and was cheated of money. In the end, she got through the clothing business.
Zhang Xiaomin was also a popular actor in the 80s, having played roles in movies such as "Love Heaven Hates the Sea" and "The Third Goddess". But in the end, she also chose to immigrate as a family to Canada.
Speaking of the name Yin Tingru, I think everyone will not forget it. In 1981, she appeared on the screen for playing the role of Tian Song in the movie "Awakening" starring Chen Chong, and later played the heroine in "Village in the City" and "Symphony of Pots and Pans", and her fresh and unworldly temperament made her a goddess in the hearts of many people in the 80s. But in 1985, she also went to the United States and chose to settle in the United States. However, it is sad that Yin Tingru died in the United States on June 11, 2017, at the age of 62.
Yes, in the 80s of the last century, China had just begun to reform and open up, and people's material living standards were not very high, and even many materials were scarce. But with the deepening of reform and opening up, in just a few decades, China has undergone earth-shaking changes. Today's China has long been recognized as a great power and a great power in the world. Nowadays, what everyone is enthusiastic about is no longer "going out", but "walking in", I think this should also be the reason why many female stars who went abroad in the past have now returned to China to develop.
This article is original by DJ Yaqing, please do not copy without permission! Violators will be prosecuted!
Click "Learn More" below and there will be easter eggs and surprises!