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When it comes to the popular actors in the mainland film industry in the 1980s, these names will come to mind: Zhou Lijing, Tang Guoqiang, Guo Kaimin, Zhu Shimao, Zhang Fengyi, Chen Daoming, Jiang Wen, Sun Chun, Shen Junyi, Hu Yajie, Da Shichang, Chen Jianfei, Chen Shaoze, Ma Xiaowei, Liang Tongyu, Liu Changchun, Mao Yongming, Sun Qixin and so on. The classic images they create on the screen have become the common memories of generations, and they are also deeply engraved in the years of light and shadow.
The one I am talking about today is also a young student who was very popular in the 80s. He dropped out of school after graduating from junior high school, stayed unemployed for eight years, and only started acting at the age of 30, but he studied abroad when his career was in full swing, returned to China and became the boss behind the scenes, and married a beautiful wife who was 20 years younger. How many viewers still remember Liu Xinyi as an actor? There is no Tang Guoqiang's creamy appearance, no Zhu Shimao's handsome and dashing appearance, but with his tough appearance and simple acting skills, he is deeply loved by the audience.
Liu Xinyi stopped going to school after graduating from junior high school, and in 8 years he worked all kinds of miscellaneous jobs, worked as a porter, and also worked as a carpenter. He studied art with his father since he was a child and has a good foundation in painting. When he was a porter in the Qingdao Cigarette Factory, he also designed choreography for the Song and Dance Troupe Drama Troupe, and this amateur job allowed him to stumble upon the performance by mistake. At the age of 27, Liu Xinyi entered the China Youth Art Theatre.
Compared with his contemporaries, he did not appear in his first film until the age of 30. In "Backlight" starring Guo Kaimin and Wu Yuhua, Liu Xinyi played the male number two "Huang Mao", a young man with a simple and honest personality, but he sold his and his fiancée's soul for 1,000 yuan, and finally his girlfriend abandoned him and threw him into the arms of others. After suffering from the blow of emotional injury, he met Xu Shanshan, who looked ordinary, and two kind frustrated people came together.
Since then, Liu Xinyi has officially started his acting career and has been very active on the big screen for several years. He cooperated with Wang Shihuai in "Drifting Adventure", playing a horse thief named "Night White Fly", who was shot and killed after killing a bully; participated in the movie "Blood, Always Hot", playing the printing and dyeing factory designer "Shenhua" who was forced to sell popsicles for a living; liked his and Arya starring in "Wheel Quartet", which showed the beautiful road scenery, the story was flat and full of waves, and the feelings between people and people were constantly sublimated.
The actors of the eighties, everyone had at least one big screen masterpiece. Liu Xinyi's most widely known film is "Happy Bachelor" starring with Gong Xuema Xiaowei. He played the workshop leader "Shi Qilong", a happy bare stick youth, because of the arrival of the female teacher played by Gong Xue, life and thinking have undergone great changes.
Liu Xinyi's performance in this film is very natural and real, and the character's rough and bold personality is vividly presented. With the image of "Shi Qilong", not only did his fame and reputation be sought after by many audiences, but also won the best supporting actor in the seventh "Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award", which laid his place in the film industry in the 1980s.
Most of the actors of that era were self-taught, and many of them had not received training from the class before acting. In 1985, Liu Xinyi was admitted to the beijing film academy's acting department, and became a classmate with Tang Guoqiang, Kou Zhenhai, Li Fengxu, Jiang Lili, Guo Kaimin, Xiao Xiong, and Song Chunli, who were already hot celebrities in the film industry. After that, Liu Xinyi participated in the movie "Mandarin Duck Tower", and his partner Zhang Xiaomin starred in the TV series "Backwater Weilan", successfully shaping the fierce temperament of "Luo Crooked Mouth".
Liu Xinyi has performed only a few costume dramas, and he has an impression of "Yongzheng Emperor". Although not as classic and famous as Tang Guoqiang's "Yongzheng", Liu Xinyi's version of "Yongzheng" also performs his own characteristics, with a complex and changeable personality, cruel and cold, and moody. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the show business set off a "going abroad fever". After ten years of acting, Liu Xinyi came up with the idea of becoming a director, so he chose to go abroad for further study.
When the acting career was on fire, Liu Xinyi quietly faded out of the audience's sight. A few years later, he returned from his studies and set up his own film and television company, continuing to work as an actor while working behind the scenes. He prepared the TV series "Returning to the People on a Snowy Night", starring Ju Xue and Huang Lei, who also played an important role in the play. In the movie "Two Birds with One Stone" released in 2005, Liu Xinyi and Han Sanping co-produced as executive producers. In recent years, he has produced a series of TV movies such as "Water Margin Hero Spectrum", which has put Water Margin heroes such as Sun Erniang, Hua Rong, Shi Qian, Zhang Qing, Xu Ning, Liu Tang, and Guan Sheng on the screen again.
As a well-known actor in the past, Liu Xinyi's family life is little known. His wife, He Hao, was a former rhythmic gymnast. In 1995, after returning to China, Liu Xinyi went to He Hao's school to shoot a drama and met her, who was in her sophomore year. He Hao did not know that this man, who was 20 years older than himself, had once been a big star. Liu Xinyi's maturity and sincerity touched the beautiful He Hao, and after three years of acquaintance, the two entered the marriage hall and later had a lovely son. Although there is an age gap, the two have been very affectionate for 20 years since their marriage, and his success is inseparable from the support of his virtuous wife, and many of Liu Xinyi's films are written by He Hao himself.
Today, Liu Xinyi is the boss of Beijing Xinyi Times Film and Television Co., Ltd., a listed company, and his career has done a good job. From a popular student in the past, he is now retired to the background as a director, his identity has changed, and what has not changed is his love for movies. Like Liu Xinyi, he always has a passion for his career and work, and there will always be a successful day.