After the 1990 TV series "Siege of the City" was broadcast, Mr. Qian Zhongshu wrote a letter to director Huang Shuqin, praising five characters by name: Miss Su, Principal Gao, Fang Hongwei, Miss Sun and Mrs. Wang.
Please note that Qian Lao's ranking is in order.
In order to express gratitude, Su Wenyuan's actor Li Yuanyuan specially made a phone call to Qian Lao, Qian Zhongshu gave Li Yuanyuan six words on the phone, did not expect Li Yuanyuan to hang up the phone after a moment of excitement actually forgot, and later after trying to recall the words of Qian Lao: You are Su Wenyun.
The author believes that Elder Qian is so satisfied with Su Wenyun in the TV series, it must be that Li Yuanyuan's performance is beyond his imagination of Su Wenyun in his mind, and the beautiful and vulgar elegant female doctor made Li Yuanyuan perform perfectly.
This is just a microcosm of Li Yuanyuan's short and beautiful life, and in the short forty years before her death on October 20, 2002, Li Yuanyuan's world was full of bitterness and happiness.
First, her beautiful life
Before suffering from cancer, Li Yuanyuan had a beautiful life.
She was born in 1961 in Jinan, Shandong Province, to an acting family whose father was a director of an avant-garde literary troupe, whose mother was a dancer, and whose sister later joined a professional literary troupe.
Li Yuanyuan's original name was Li Yuanyuan, it is said that she changed her name because some old classmates called her Li Circle, at that time she was the backbone of the class, but also the main force of various performance teams, and she was already a small actor.
In 1972, Prince Sihanouk visited Jinan, Shandong Province, and Li Yuanyuan presented flowers to Prince Sihanouk as a representative of primary school students, thanking the staff at that time and leaving us with her 11-year-old appearance.
At the age of 16, Li Yuanyuan, who had always been well-behaved, insisted on applying for the Shanghai Theater Academy despite her father's objections and became a college student. She is the youngest in her class, but she has a strong understanding of acting.
In 1981, Li Yuanyuan graduated from university and stayed on to teach and became a twenty-year-old university teacher.
In 1983, Li Yuanyuan first entered the film industry, and in 1986, she starred in dramas all over Shanghai, and in the short period of the following ten years, Li Yuanyuan starred in a total of 20 TV series and six movies, and won four performance awards, namely:
"Shanghai Morning" Lin Wanzhi won the 8th Popular Television Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actress
"Born Timid" Liu Yu won the 18th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress
"The Story of Hong Kong" Zheng Adai won the 16th China Television Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress
"Century of Life" Dong Zhujun won the Outstanding Actress Award at the 21st China Television Golden Eagle Awards
If you only talk about the award rate of the work, Li Yuanyuan must be among the best in China's film and television actors, she became a representative of intellectual, elegant, hazy and gentle roles in that year, and the quality of every film and television drama with Li Yuanyuan can always reassure the audience.
Second, her classic role
Some people say that Li Yuanyuan is a typical oriental female image, with bent eyebrows, red lips and teeth, dignified and beautiful, gentle and atmospheric, if she did not choose the film and television industry, she would definitely be able to be a CCTV host.
In Li Yuanyuan's more than twenty film and television works, she left the audience with many classic roles.
There is a unit in "Liaozhai", "Difu Niangniang", Li Yuanyuan starred in Jinse, which is her early work, when she was only in her twenties, young and beautiful, and there was a very feminine temperament between her eyebrows.
"Secret Agent" at the same time as "Lady of the Prefecture" is also Li Yuanyuan's early masterpiece, she played the female agent of the Secret Bureau, Meng Mei, and she and Pan Fei, the underground party played by Zhai Naishe, talked about a love affair with wind and snow and mutual calculation.
Pan Fei's dashing handsomeness and Meng Mei's feminine heroism are the impressive scenes of "Secret Agent".
In 1988, Li Yuanyuan and You Yong co-starred in "Ephemeral Dream", he played Hua Jinfang, fashionable and gorgeous, worthy of the role's nickname "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves".
After accumulating a few years, Li Yuanyuan's role as the third aunt in 1989 'Shanghai Morning' made her popular in one fell swoop, at this time Li Yuanyuan was married, and she also worked and lived in the city of Shanghai for more than ten years, she interpreted Lin Wanzhi's kind of beautiful peach blossom style of the Republic of China's aunt's wife very charming, captured a lot of audiences, and won the best supporting actress award.
In 1990, Li Yuanyuan, who was already famous all over the world, once again challenged the more difficult role, Su Wenyun in "Siege".
Su Wenyun is a real female doctor, the family is well-off is also everyone's bridesmaid, but this person is actually a contradictory synthesis, she pursues foreign free love, but there is a traditional female reticence, she likes Fang Hongzhi but disdains him, her appearance is noble and elegant inside but vulgar, in short, this is a very difficult role to grasp, acting too right is out of the connotation of "Siege", acting too much but ruined a good skin bag.
The 29-year-old Li Yuanyuan grasped Su Wenyun's scheming and fake heart, and she also perfectly displayed Miss Su's mature intellectual, gentle and lovely external charm, so when "Siege of the City" was broadcast, the scene at the beginning of this article occurred, and Su Wenyun, played by Li Yuanyuan, became the most satisfactory role of Mr. Qian Zhongshu.
In 1994, There was a 100-episode TV series "Kyoto Chronicle" in China, Li Yuanyuan starred in the heroine Ye Xiaotong, which is an urban female white-collar role that wanders around two men, she is white and beautiful, fashionable and beautiful, shrewd and strong, generous, although the author did not watch the drama that year, but Ye Xiaotong played by Li Yuanyuan is a role that the author likes very much.
In 1998, in order to welcome the return of Hong Kong, "The Story of Hong Kong" was broadcast, Xiao Tao Hong and Li Yuanyuan played the young and middle-aged and elderly Zheng Adai respectively, the drama showed the century-old storm of Hong Kong through the experience of three generations of Zheng Adai's family.
In this drama, Li Yuanyuan's acting skills are profound, not only playing Zheng Adai for most of his life, but also hand-in-hand guiding Xiao Tao Hong, who was still in college at that time.
I remember that at that time, the hong Kong actor "Shi Zhikang" Chen Tingwei, who played Zheng A's son, was actually less than Li Yuanyuan for a few months, but the cooperation between the two was very good, and it did not seem that there was much violation.
Li Yuanyuan's last work before her death was the TV series "Century of Life", which depicted Dong Zhujun, the founder of Jin Jiang Hotel, and Li Yuanyuan successfully completed the shaping of this famous historical figure with her image, acting skills and charm.
It is worth mentioning that in this drama, Dong Zhujun's children are played by the young Xue Jianing, Huang Yi and Tong Dawei, just like the previous guidance of Xiao Taohong, Li Yuanyuan also brought valuable performance experience and demonstration to these young actors.
Li Yuanyuan's other excellent works include film and television dramas such as "Red Dragonfly" and "Song of Youth", if the author chooses five representative works from Li Yuanyuan's more than twenty roles, it will be:
Su Wenyun, Dong Zhujun, Zheng Adai, Lin Wanzhi and Jin Se, these characters have been deeply branded by Li Yuanyuan, and no one has been able to replace them.
Three, her love and marriage
In 1984, the 48-year-old Jiao Huang rehearsed the play "Anthony and Cleopatra", and if you think the name is a bit awkward, you can also watch "Cleopatra".
Jiao Huang of course played Anthony, but it was not easy to find an actress who could play Cleopatra in the Shanghai drama industry, so someone recommended Li Yuanyuan, a young teacher at the Shanghai Theater Academy.
During that time, Jiao Huang and Li Yuanyuan rehearsed for six weeks, starting at eight o'clock in the morning and working until two o'clock in the morning, and with their efforts, the play became popular on the beach and performed more than forty times in a row.
During this period of working together for art, love gradually arose between Jiao Huang and Li Yuanyuan, who were both single. However, in that era, this relationship with an age difference of 25 years was not accepted, and when Jiao Huang and Li Yuanyuan met old acquaintances on the street side by side during the break, the other party even had to remind Jiao Huang to pay attention to the impact.
Unfortunately, such feelings were not accepted by Li Yuanyuan's parents, and in the end, the well-behaved and obedient Li Yuanyuan could only follow her parents' opinions and ended this relationship generated by artistic creation.
Soon after, Li Yuanyuan married Liu Guoqing, a screenwriter who graduated from the Literature Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, and in a certain sense, Li Yuanyuan, who stayed in school to teach at a young age, was still her husband's teacher.
The couple's combination of screenwriters and actors is not only the norm in the industry, but it is easy to produce classic works, but unfortunately, the couple's marriage lasted only a few years before they broke up due to personality problems.
A few years later, Li Yuanyuan met her emotional home Yang Cheng, at that time Li Yuanyuan had been transferred to the Central Experimental Drama Theater, after becoming famous, she often went out to shoot dramas in the north of the South China Sea, and Yang Cheng was always able to personally run to the set to ask for warmth.
Li Yuanyuan, who felt the warmth of home, and Yang Cheng got married, and a year after she finished filming "Century of Life", she gave birth to the crystallization of love, and her son's milk name was Yang Xiang.
If everything is normal, after marriage, Li Yuanyuan can either feel at ease at home to meet her husband and teach her children, or she can come back to continue her acting career at the peak of her career, or she can also go to drama or do behind-the-scenes, she has already served as the editing and production director in many film and television dramas that year.
However, just when Li Yuanyuan was pregnant, she found a physical abnormality, and the best way was to terminate the pregnancy, but she insisted on keeping the child, and when the child was born, she went to the hospital to check and found that it was the end stage of cancer.
Li Yuanyuan insisted on treatment with an optimistic attitude, and during the hospitalization, "Siege" director Huang Shuqin once visited her, and Li Yuanyuan in turn comforted the director: After I am discharged from the hospital, I may have to play a fat sister-in-law, and you have to keep the role of a fat sister-in-law for me.
In November 2001, the 21st Golden Eagle Awards were awarded, Li Yuanyuan won the Outstanding Actress Award, and the organizing committee made an exception to present Li Yuanyuan in the ward, which was her glory and a portrayal of her condition.
Li Yuanyuan, who has been thinking about her elderly mother and two-year-old son for the last month of her life, told the doctor that she regretted that her career was not completed. Ten days before her death, she refused all visits from her friends, and in her mind, the actor should leave the most perfect image to others.
On October 20, 2002, Li Yuanyuan died young, at the age of 41.
"Fly, beautiful angel", this line on Li Yuanyuan's tombstone, pins her relatives and her audience's last wishes for her.