Zhao Wei

Zhao Wei is genuinely one of those rare entertainers who refuses to be boxed in, and I mean that as the highest compliment. She exploded into the Chinese-speaking world with My Fair Princess in the late '90s, and that role was so culturally massive it's hard to overstate — people who were kids then still have the theme song lodged in their brains. But what impresses me more is that she didn't coast on that. She pivoted to serious film work, won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress, then turned around and stepped behind the camera as a director too. Actress, singer, filmmaker — she's done all three at a serious level, which is vanishingly rare. Born in Wuhu, a city most outsiders couldn't place on a map, she went on to become one of China's most recognized faces globally. That kind of range and ambition is what separates a star from a career.

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Name (English)

Zhao Wei

Name (Japanese)

ヴィッキー・チャオ

Reading

ゔぃっきー・ちゃお

Born

March 12, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Wuhu, People's Republic of China

Occupation

actor / singer / film director / film actor

Awards & achievements

• Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress

• Official sitehttps://zhaoweispace.blog.sohu.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/vicki_zhaowei/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao%20Wei
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q197471

Tags

• actor
• singer
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-02

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