Yang Mi

Yang Mi is one of those rare performers who managed to grow up on screen without it being awkward — she was acting as a child in the early 1990s and by the time she hit her twenties she was already carrying period dramas on her own. Her breakout in Wang Zhaojun showed she could hold a sweeping historical epic, but it was roles like those in Palace and Three Lives Three Worlds: Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms that turned her into a genuine phenomenon across mainland China and beyond. What I appreciate is that she didn't just coast on that fame — she moved into producing, built her own company, and kept stacking projects while plenty of her contemporaries faded. She gets criticized for being over-exposed, and sure, that's fair, but the hustle is real and the commercial instinct is sharp.

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Name (English)

Yang Mi

Name (Japanese)

楊冪

Reading

やん・みー

Born

September 12, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Xuanwu District, People's Republic of China

Occupation

actor / singer / television producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

High school

Beijing No. 14 High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yangmimimi912/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Mi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%8A%E5%86%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1137458

Tags

• actor
• singer
• television producer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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