Speaking of Gu Yongfei as an actor, I think the most impressive thing left on the audience is probably the role of Fangyi in 1984, in the film "Thunderstorm" adapted by Shangying Film Studio based on Cao Yu's famous book.
In 1984, Sun Daolin, a famous actor and director of the Shanghai Film Studio, planned to put Cao Yu's famous book "Thunderstorm" on the screen again, and the male protagonist of the play, Zhou Puyuan, was played by Sun Daolin himself, and several other roles were also arranged for several outstanding actors in the Studio, such as Qin Yi playing Lu Ma, Zhang Yu playing Si Feng, Ma Xiaowei playing Zhou Ping, etc. Only the most complex and difficult heroine in the play was chosen for a long time.
It is said that many popular female stars at that time especially wanted to play the classic role of Fangyi, and the competition was particularly fierce. And many people think that the "tragic queen" Pan Hong is probably the most suitable actress to play this role (in fact, Pan Hong did play a prosperous role in the star version of the drama "Thunderstorm"). But in the end, director Sun Daolin still boldly used Gu Yongfei, who was far less famous than Pan Hong at that time.
At that time, "Thunderstorm", a starry movie, several other stars in the play, such as Sun Daolin, Qin Yi, Zhang Yu, and Ma Xiaowei, were much more famous than Gu Yongfei, but after the film was released, the most memorable impression on everyone was only gu Yongfei's play of Prosperity. And the writer Cao Yu praised Gu Yongfei's performance - "has become one with the prosperity".
It was also through the 84 version of the movie "Thunderstorm" that Gu Yongfei suddenly became popular. And this year, Gu Yongfei is close to 40 years old, this age, has already passed the best golden age for an actress.
In 1946, Gu Yongfei was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, her father was the famous writer Gu Eryi, her mother was the first generation of female announcers of Jiangsu Radio, and her uncle, who was the famous Gu Only, once partnered with big stars such as Zhou Xuan and Wang Danfeng to shoot scenes, and later directed films such as "Little Erhei Marriage" as a director.
In 1962, Gu Yongfei, who had loved literature and art since childhood and had an outstanding image, was admitted to the acting department of the Shanghai Theater Academy. Originally, I thought that I would be able to make a name for myself in the film industry after completing my studies, but I did not expect to meet the arrival of a special decade. Because of his family origin, after Gu Yongfei graduated from the theater, instead of being assigned to a professional theater troupe as an actor, he was arranged to work as an ordinary worker in a factory in Beijing. During this period, she worked on the farm, picked up dung in the pigsty, watched the cruel reality, and became farther and farther away from the stage she loved, and the young Gu Yongfei felt extremely desperate. When she felt that she would not be able to get on the stage in her life, she secretly saved more than 300 sleeping pills and swallowed them in one gulp, fortunately found, but still saved her life after seven days and seven nights of rescue.
Such days endured until 1974, when the opportunity finally came to Gu Yongfei. At that time, both the Xinjiang Military Region and Haizheng were ready to accept Gu Yongfei, but Gu Yongfei chose to go to distant Xinjiang for the sake of safety, because there were not many people willing to go to the frontier, so gu Yongfei's chances of passing would be greater.
At that time, in order to change the family composition, Gu Yongfei had already married a local soldier from a worker background. But for the sake of the performance she loves, Gu Yongfei is unwilling to give up the opportunity to go to Xinjiang, so she can only divorce her first husband.
After arriving in Xinjiang, Gu Yongfei was almost immediately assigned to the role, but only the female number two, and the female number one, but there were 7 candidates. So Gu Yongfei played with these 7 female number one side actors. As a result, when the leader of the group came to see the rehearsal, he found that the 7 female number ones were not as good as Gu Yongfei, the female number two, so the heavy responsibility of the heroine naturally fell to Gu Yongfei's body.
In this way, Gu Yongfei, who finally played the female number one, had the opportunity to participate in the all-army parade in Beijing in 1977, and it was through this show that he was favored by the director of the movie "Wind and Waves", and invited Gu Yongfei to participate in the movie "Wind and Waves" starring the famous actor Qin Yi, and played Qin Yi's daughter in it. This made Gu Yongfei finally appear on the big screen of his dreams and become a film actor.
Following the movie "Wind and Waves", Gu Yongfei immediately received the performance task of the movie "Zhengrong Years", which was a script written by Gu Yongfei's father Gu Eryi, in which Gu Yongfei played Tian Hua's daughter. Because he kept making movies, Gu Yongfei did not go back to Xinjiang.
In 1981, Gu Yongfei was selected by director Bai Dezhang to star in the movie "I Wish People Last". This is the first time that Gu Yongfei has played a female lead in a movie. And it is also through this film that the playwright Cao Yu and the director Sun Daolin discovered her, giving her the opportunity to play the role of the heroine of the 84 version of the movie "Thunderstorm".
After the movie "I Hope People Last", Gu Yongfei also made many movies one after another, such as "After the Rain", "Backlight", etc., but most of them received a mediocre response, until they received an invitation from the "Thunderstorm" crew.
For his role in the movie "Thunderstorm", Gu Yongfei was nominated as a candidate for the Best Actress Award at the 5th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema. Gu Yongfei became famous in one fell swoop, became a well-known big star in the country, and was transferred to the Shanghai Film Studio as an actor. And at this time, her second marriage also came to an end.
As early as Gu Yongfei went to Xinjiang, he had his second marriage, the other party was the band leader of the Xinjiang Song and Dance Troupe, and the two also had a very beautiful and lovely daughter. However, when Gu Yongfei was busy with her film acting career, her second husband had an affair because he could not bear the long-term separation. In this way, this marriage of gathering less and leaving more also came to an end, and Gu Yongfei returned to Nanjing with her daughter.
Because of the popularity of "Thunderstorm", So Gu Yongfei's films continued, after which she made some movies, the more famous of which was "Yingyan Peach Li" co-starring with He Qing, in which she played the famous Yue opera character Liu Ying. At the same time, he also participated in the hosting of the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV in 1986.
At this time, another problem has emerged, that is, the education and growth of his precious daughter. Because of the perennial filming outside, Gu Yongfei can not wholeheartedly accompany and take care of his daughter, often go out to shoot for a few months and a half, and leave her young daughter alone at home. Every time he goes out, Gu Yongfei will cut his daughter's hair, causing her daughter to have a general reflex, as long as she cuts her hair, she will be in tears. This made Gu Yongfei full of guilt for her daughter.
It is also in order to give her daughter a better growth environment, Gu Yongfei made a choice again, she endured the pain of giving up the acting work she loved and took her daughter to Australia. Because at this time, compared to filming, her daughter is the most important thing in her life.
A single daughter, with a daughter who is only 9 years old, in a foreign country, everything can only start from scratch, Gu Yongfei now looks back and thinks about that time, it is really difficult. At first, she worked in a friend's company and then started a garment factory, just like Wang Qiming in "Beijingers New York Again", but the real feeling is actually more difficult. Later, he opened a boutique in Nanjing, and then he did some real estate business with friends - friends bought a piece of land, and everyone invested money to build a house. In short, do what you make money. The only purpose is to create better conditions for children.
Gu Yongfei's daughter is also very successful, attending the best schools, and her academic performance has always been among the best. After graduating from university, he became a finance and administrative director of a financial group.
After her daughter finally grew up, Gu Yongfei returned to the film and television circle, and successively participated in Chen Kaige's "Jing Ke Thorn Qin Wang", which was praised by overseas media as "China's most eye-catching supporting actress", and later song Meiling in two TV series" "Oriental Desire to Know" and "Founding Leader Mao Zedong". And what everyone is more familiar with is that she played the "bad" mother in the TV series "Flowers Not Flowers" adapted from Feng Hua's novel "The Flower of Confusion".
Gu Yongfei, the classic "prosperity" on the screen, is now 72 years old, but still often appears in front of various cameras and stages, and the style is still beautiful.
Here, Yaqing sincerely wishes her: forever maintain artistic youth! Good luck!
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