Du Chun
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Du Chun is a young Chinese actor with a thousand faces. Du has played as leading roles for more than a dozen of TV drama series. He is such a chameleon that you remember the characters he creates instead of his persona or even his name. His name became well recognized in 2009 as “Red Idol” after he portrayed a spy hero Jiang Bo in “In Enemy Camp for 18 years” and a self-made businessman Tian Qin in “Emigrate to the West”, which won him a nomination as best actor on Monte Carlo TV Festival 2009. His new role as a graduate from oversea in a TV comedy “Rent a girl friend for New Year” won him a huge number of young fans. He just finished shooting TV version of “Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior”. Most of the roles he played are ideal Chinese man with traditional values. His electric screen energy and compassionate personality won so many people’s hearts from all age groups. Du is coined by the media as one of the leading young actors in China.
, China. His parents are also in the performing business. His father, Du Zhiguo is also an actor, and his mother, Yang Li, is a dancer and dancing instructor. He is the only child in the family and was very shy in his childhood. His father was not a leading actor on TV or movies when Du Chun was a kid, for he took his first major roles in 1998. Du was often left alone in his early school years. His father went to looking for acting opportunities and his mother was on dancing tours a lot. He started dance training by his mother. After two years, at the age of 11, Du Chun got admitted to The Dance School of Central University of Nationalities (CUN) (i.e. Minzu University of China), one of the key disciplinary bases of national minority arts and the cradle of ethnic dancers, to fulfill his mother's dream to be trained professionally in one of the top dancing schools in China. As the youngest kid in class, his life was tough during six years at this boarding school. He rarely mentioned the detail about that part of his life. He destroyed all his photos during that period. His family was poor at that time and he was never a good dancer. He grew from a teenager into a young man. Hard life made him more mature than people at his same age. He found passion on performing arts during his six years of dancing training. After graduate, he tried to get into China's prestigious Central Academy of Drama
but failed. His father and several other famous actors thought he was not suitable to be an actor because he is too shy. He knows he loves acting and he made up his mind about his future career. After one year preparation, including coached by several prestigious actors, Du finally got admitted into Beijing Film Academy
in 1999 with one of the highest admission test scores even though he did not take the regular middle and high school courses. He was among the best students academically in college. Before his graduation in 2003, his father asked help from his director friend Hu Mei
,to give him a small role in a big TV historical costume drama production Han Wu Dadi (Emperor Wu of Han
, one of the greatest Emperor in Chinese history). After audition, the director gave him an important role, the young Emperor. He did great job on portraying an ambitious and playful young leader which established his acting career.
drama, the Legend of the Banner Hero, which is adapted from famous Wuxia (Kungfu) writer Gu Long
in 2005. He played a tragic hero who brought peace to the Jianghu
world with self-sacrifice. He saved many people, but had to endure misunderstanding, isolation, injury, and heartbrake from love. Du Chun’s performance is vivid and touching. His martial arts action was smooth and elegant which is accredited to his six years of professional dance training. The TV drama "The Banner" won the “Most favorite Costume Drama series” in 2007. Interestingly enough, his father played the villain.
He played some small roles in other TV drama series before "The Banner". He portrayed Li Yong (real name is Li Ling (Han Dynasty)), a young controversy general who was captured by Xiongnu
and surrendered, but never betrayed his own country. Audiences could feel his pain of missing family and homeland. He also played a nice funny prince in a costume comedy, "Pretty Girls in Jianghu" in 2004. Another major role he played in 2005 is Kangxi Emperor
in the Qing Dynasty in a historic costume drama "Yellow River Homage". His father also played an important role here, too. This series was bought by CCTV but has not aired yet.
After that he appeared as leading roles in two period pieces. One in 2006 in Prince to Pauper, he played a golden hearted young men who was raised up as a servant in a rich family, but actually the only son of the family resulted in his selfish nanny. He grew up to be a nice, hard-working, and responsible young man. He lost so many things which supposedly belonged to him, include his love due to his wrong identity. After he knew the truth, he has no complaining, but only appreciation for life. He still treated his nanny as his mother and did everything to protect her from hurting by others. You can see a decent and beautiful person inside and out from his moving performance.
In another period piece, Love with no regret, Du played a faithful lover who unconditionally supported a lady he loved for all his life even she could not marry him. His tears is so heart wrenching. These two TV series had high ratings and he got a new name “Sad Prince”.
In 2007 he and his father played together in TV drama, Mistaken Son. His father played the rich dad. He played the young man who took the responsibility to support his aged biological father after he found out the truth and his real father was a poor peasant. He refused the good life his rich dad offered and chose to be with his poor dad. He started from scratchy and was forced to leave his love. Eventually he grew up to be an independent and responsible person, and won his love back. His role as a singing star was not that natural and brought him some criticism.
In 2007 and 2008, he started a role as an undercover Jiang Bo in a three parts of total 120 episodes of TV drama series Enemy Camp for 18 years. This is a remake of the Chinese first TV drama series debuted in 1980. He finished the first two parts of total 84 episodes. The third one is in his future plan. This drama is intense both on storyline and emotion. He constantly struggled to finish his tasks and protect the people he loved the most. He had to sacrifice completely for a bigger cause he believed in. People are moved by his detailed portrait of a real emotional-rich hero, who was loyalty to his friends and to his country, cared for people, and showed well controlled emotion. He was a handsome, caring, brave, and honorary man. His role as Jiang Bo brought him a new title “new generation red idol”.
His new milestone is his appearance 1n 2009 CCTV-1
New Year's TV premier, Emigrate to the West”. He played a traditional Chinese young men growing up to be a successful business man despite of all misfortune in his life. He eventually devoted all his fortune to the revolutionary war and joined political movement. He portrayed a perfect man who succeed in business and won everyone’s heart by following traditional values in Confucianism
: Ren (仁 Humanity), Yi (义 Righteousness), Li (禮 Ritual), Zhi (智 Knowledge), and Xin (信 Integrity). He is smart and hardworking, decent, open-minded, loyal to friends, responsible to family, forgiveness to people who hurt him. This TV drama won a lot of awards. He got best actor nomination on 41st Monte Carlo TV festival.
He played another hero in To the South We Go in 2009. This is a totally different figure other than all the ones he played before. He started as a volunteer to support the army, joined and followed the army to big city Shanghai, made a lot of mistakes, eventually become an outstanding public servant in the big city in 1950s. He took the responsibilities of his fallen soldier friends to support their families. He married to a wrong person and finally returned to his true love. All of his mistakes are because he followed his hearts with rooted Chinese traditional values. He touches many people’s hearts because he made people feel he was so real in life.
His recent premiered Red Idol role in “Kill Traitor” was in highest ranking in TV shows. It's a story about two brothers during Japanese Occupation in China. Du Chun played a hero, Li Biao, who fight against Japanese while his brother became a traitor and helped Japanese killing Chinese. Li did not believe that his brother became a real traitor at beginning. He tried to helped him left Japanese but failed. He was mistreated as a traitor and almost got killed. He lived by his principle. He finally killed his brother, the bloody traitor after the war ended. He turned down several similar roles because he wanted to try different type of characters.
In July 2010, He starred as a leading role in a production for Xinhai Revolution
100 year anniversary, the Great HanKou.
He appeared as a small role "Xu Deheng", a student movement leader, in the all-star movie "Creation of the Party" in September 2010.
He gave a try in a comedy Rent a girlfriend for the New Year in 2009. He played a handsome and well educated men who could not get out of tragedy caused by the breakup of his first girl friend eight years ago. As the only son in the family, he has to please his family by pretending living a normal happy life. So he hired a girl as his girl friend to go home with him for the New Year. In a beautiful setting in a small ancient town rich with Chinese culture, it delivered a funny and warm story about a traditional Chinese family with a happy ending. Du is a charming men, arrogant and fashion on surface, but a good heart and caring underneath. This TV show is very hot on internet and brought him a lot of young fans.
After he played so many emperors, heroes, he changed to be a regular person living on the bottom of the society as a security guard in TV drama Nanny and Security Guard. He was mistaken as a real guard by nearby people who had no knowledge of the TV shooting. He presented detailed pictures of the struggle and love of the poor people. Close to reality, this story touched many people's hearts and the TV drama received very high rating in many TV channels.
The biggest changes are two small roles he took in 2010 as villains. One is Ximen Qing, a notorious playboy figure in Chinese classical literature All Men Are Brothers, who had relationship with a married lady and murdered her husband together, and eventually killed by the brother of the deceased man. He did not take pay to play this character, he just wanted to try a totally different role. The other one is an ambitious general in Three Kingdom Era who would do anything to get his power in another costume drama, the Legend of the Honest Stone, which is planned to be premiered on CCTV-1 on New Year’s day 2011.
He finished shooting of Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior in April 2010 which is a remake of the classical movie played by Zhang Yimou
and Gong Li
. This is a romantic story covering three love stories in three dynasties between two lovers, his co star being Ady An. He finished a youth comedy “Puberty hit Menopause” in May 2010 and just start shooting another modern drama "Grown Up" in Oct 2010.
2008 “Dilemma”(Enemy Camp for 18 Years) and 2009 “Truthful” (Nanny and Securiety Guard).
He will also sing the theme song in his new TV drama “Love and Fight with a Terracotta Warrior".
Hosted four episodes of Success Factors in Jilin TV in 2008.
(孝子)” in 2010. He was also named the “2009 Youth Inspirational Figure in China” and established himself as a role model for the young people for his positive attitude and diligent work.
"2010 - Won title of 2010 "China Top Ten Model Sons of Filial Piety”
"2009 - Nominated for Best Actor on the 49th Monte Carlo International Television Festival
“2009 - Named Youth inspirational figure in China (Youth Role Model)"
"2007 - Won "Best Actor Award" in 2007 Southern China Festival
2 “Du Chun’s Portrait of Liang Hong” Film Pictorial --China, Vol 291, April 2008 cover story
3 “Du Chun and his ‘Little Boss’” Popular Cinema (China) vol 12, 2007
4 “Story of Du Chun: Seven collaboration with his Father” Popular Cinema (China) Vol 3, 2009
5“Du Chun’s performance: Bright as lighting, Cool as Snow“ Fashion & Life (Taizhou, China) vol 12 2007
6. Du Chun’s information on Chinese Central Television Site
7. Du Chun’s information on Chinese Broadcast and TV Association official site
8. Du Chun’s Chinese Wiki
10. Announcement “Du Chun Named 2009 Youth Inspirational Figure”
11. News “Du Chun awarded as Top Ten Model Sons of Filial piety in Chinese Entertainment world”
12. 49th Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2009 Normination
2. Du Chun Sina blog
3. Du Chun official website
4. Du Chun’s information
Early life
Du Chun was born in HebeiHebei
' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...
, China. His parents are also in the performing business. His father, Du Zhiguo is also an actor, and his mother, Yang Li, is a dancer and dancing instructor. He is the only child in the family and was very shy in his childhood. His father was not a leading actor on TV or movies when Du Chun was a kid, for he took his first major roles in 1998. Du was often left alone in his early school years. His father went to looking for acting opportunities and his mother was on dancing tours a lot. He started dance training by his mother. After two years, at the age of 11, Du Chun got admitted to The Dance School of Central University of Nationalities (CUN) (i.e. Minzu University of China), one of the key disciplinary bases of national minority arts and the cradle of ethnic dancers, to fulfill his mother's dream to be trained professionally in one of the top dancing schools in China. As the youngest kid in class, his life was tough during six years at this boarding school. He rarely mentioned the detail about that part of his life. He destroyed all his photos during that period. His family was poor at that time and he was never a good dancer. He grew from a teenager into a young man. Hard life made him more mature than people at his same age. He found passion on performing arts during his six years of dancing training. After graduate, he tried to get into China's prestigious Central Academy of Drama
Central Academy of Drama
The Central Academy of Drama is a drama school in Beijing, People's Republic of China.-History:The academy was established in April 1950. It was named by Mao Zedong. It inherited the drama department of Lu Xun Art Academy in Yan'an, art school of North China University, and National Drama College...
but failed. His father and several other famous actors thought he was not suitable to be an actor because he is too shy. He knows he loves acting and he made up his mind about his future career. After one year preparation, including coached by several prestigious actors, Du finally got admitted into Beijing Film Academy
Beijing Film Academy
Beijing Film Academy is a coeducational state-run higher education institution in Beijing, China. The film school is the largest institution specialised in the tertiary education for film and television production in Asia...
in 1999 with one of the highest admission test scores even though he did not take the regular middle and high school courses. He was among the best students academically in college. Before his graduation in 2003, his father asked help from his director friend Hu Mei
Hu Mei
Hu Mei is a Chinese director and producer. Usually classed as a Fifth Generation director, since she graduated from the Directors' class of the 1982 Beijing Film Academy cohort, she is a classmate of more famous Fifth Generation directors like Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang.In 1997, she...
,to give him a small role in a big TV historical costume drama production Han Wu Dadi (Emperor Wu of Han
Emperor Wu of Han
Emperor Wu of Han , , personal name Liu Che , was the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty of China, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC. Emperor Wu is best remembered for the vast territorial expansion that occurred under his reign, as well as the strong and centralized Confucian state he organized...
, one of the greatest Emperor in Chinese history). After audition, the director gave him an important role, the young Emperor. He did great job on portraying an ambitious and playful young leader which established his acting career.
From Emperor to Wuxia Hero
After the successful debut in Han Wu Dadi, Du Chun landed a leading role in a WuxiaWuxia
Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua , films, television series, and video games...
drama, the Legend of the Banner Hero, which is adapted from famous Wuxia (Kungfu) writer Gu Long
Gu Long
Xiong Yaohua , better known by his pen name Gu Long , was a Chinese novelist and screenwriter. Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and novel series, which include: Juedai Shuangjiao, Xiaoli Feidao Series, Chu Liuxiang Series, Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang...
in 2005. He played a tragic hero who brought peace to the Jianghu
Jianghu
The jianghu is the milieu, environment, or sub-community, often fictional, in which many Chinese wuxia stories are set.In modern Chinese culture, jianghu is commonly accepted as an alternative universe coexisting with the actual historical one in which the context of the wuxia genre was set...
world with self-sacrifice. He saved many people, but had to endure misunderstanding, isolation, injury, and heartbrake from love. Du Chun’s performance is vivid and touching. His martial arts action was smooth and elegant which is accredited to his six years of professional dance training. The TV drama "The Banner" won the “Most favorite Costume Drama series” in 2007. Interestingly enough, his father played the villain.
He played some small roles in other TV drama series before "The Banner". He portrayed Li Yong (real name is Li Ling (Han Dynasty)), a young controversy general who was captured by Xiongnu
Xiongnu
The Xiongnu were ancient nomadic-based people that formed a state or confederation north of the agriculture-based empire of the Han Dynasty. Most of the information on the Xiongnu comes from Chinese sources...
and surrendered, but never betrayed his own country. Audiences could feel his pain of missing family and homeland. He also played a nice funny prince in a costume comedy, "Pretty Girls in Jianghu" in 2004. Another major role he played in 2005 is Kangxi Emperor
Kangxi Emperor
The Kangxi Emperor ; Manchu: elhe taifin hūwangdi ; Mongolian: Энх-Амгалан хаан, 4 May 1654 –20 December 1722) was the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Pass and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1661 to 1722.Kangxi's...
in the Qing Dynasty in a historic costume drama "Yellow River Homage". His father also played an important role here, too. This series was bought by CCTV but has not aired yet.
Love with No Regrets (Sad Prince)
The first leading role Du Chun played is Jiang Nanyu in Vixen Executives in 2004. With genetically inherited heart disease, he devoted his limited life to his career to help the girl he loved. This TV series is not popular partially because of the tragic ending.After that he appeared as leading roles in two period pieces. One in 2006 in Prince to Pauper, he played a golden hearted young men who was raised up as a servant in a rich family, but actually the only son of the family resulted in his selfish nanny. He grew up to be a nice, hard-working, and responsible young man. He lost so many things which supposedly belonged to him, include his love due to his wrong identity. After he knew the truth, he has no complaining, but only appreciation for life. He still treated his nanny as his mother and did everything to protect her from hurting by others. You can see a decent and beautiful person inside and out from his moving performance.
In another period piece, Love with no regret, Du played a faithful lover who unconditionally supported a lady he loved for all his life even she could not marry him. His tears is so heart wrenching. These two TV series had high ratings and he got a new name “Sad Prince”.
In 2007 he and his father played together in TV drama, Mistaken Son. His father played the rich dad. He played the young man who took the responsibility to support his aged biological father after he found out the truth and his real father was a poor peasant. He refused the good life his rich dad offered and chose to be with his poor dad. He started from scratchy and was forced to leave his love. Eventually he grew up to be an independent and responsible person, and won his love back. His role as a singing star was not that natural and brought him some criticism.
New Generation Red Idol (War time hero)
In 2006 Du Chun was selected to play little Boss in TV drama series Logistics depot 51, a remake of a classical Chinese spy movie during World Wars II. Initially he was worried about if he can replace the image of the other famous actor. Using a cover as a businessman and the little boss in a gangster, he provided many war supplies to Chinese Army from Japanese occupied Shanghai. Young and mature, witty and brave, his role won him the title of “Best Actor’ award in Southern China TV festival.In 2007 and 2008, he started a role as an undercover Jiang Bo in a three parts of total 120 episodes of TV drama series Enemy Camp for 18 years. This is a remake of the Chinese first TV drama series debuted in 1980. He finished the first two parts of total 84 episodes. The third one is in his future plan. This drama is intense both on storyline and emotion. He constantly struggled to finish his tasks and protect the people he loved the most. He had to sacrifice completely for a bigger cause he believed in. People are moved by his detailed portrait of a real emotional-rich hero, who was loyalty to his friends and to his country, cared for people, and showed well controlled emotion. He was a handsome, caring, brave, and honorary man. His role as Jiang Bo brought him a new title “new generation red idol”.
His new milestone is his appearance 1n 2009 CCTV-1
CCTV-1
CCTV-1 is the primary channel of the Chinese television network, CCTV in the People's Republic of China. It has a mixture of all kinds of TV programs, and is available to both cable and terrestrial television viewers.-External links:*...
New Year's TV premier, Emigrate to the West”. He played a traditional Chinese young men growing up to be a successful business man despite of all misfortune in his life. He eventually devoted all his fortune to the revolutionary war and joined political movement. He portrayed a perfect man who succeed in business and won everyone’s heart by following traditional values in Confucianism
Confucianism
Confucianism is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius . Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, but later developed metaphysical and cosmological elements in the Han...
: Ren (仁 Humanity), Yi (义 Righteousness), Li (禮 Ritual), Zhi (智 Knowledge), and Xin (信 Integrity). He is smart and hardworking, decent, open-minded, loyal to friends, responsible to family, forgiveness to people who hurt him. This TV drama won a lot of awards. He got best actor nomination on 41st Monte Carlo TV festival.
He played another hero in To the South We Go in 2009. This is a totally different figure other than all the ones he played before. He started as a volunteer to support the army, joined and followed the army to big city Shanghai, made a lot of mistakes, eventually become an outstanding public servant in the big city in 1950s. He took the responsibilities of his fallen soldier friends to support their families. He married to a wrong person and finally returned to his true love. All of his mistakes are because he followed his hearts with rooted Chinese traditional values. He touches many people’s hearts because he made people feel he was so real in life.
His recent premiered Red Idol role in “Kill Traitor” was in highest ranking in TV shows. It's a story about two brothers during Japanese Occupation in China. Du Chun played a hero, Li Biao, who fight against Japanese while his brother became a traitor and helped Japanese killing Chinese. Li did not believe that his brother became a real traitor at beginning. He tried to helped him left Japanese but failed. He was mistreated as a traitor and almost got killed. He lived by his principle. He finally killed his brother, the bloody traitor after the war ended. He turned down several similar roles because he wanted to try different type of characters.
In July 2010, He starred as a leading role in a production for Xinhai Revolution
Xinhai Revolution
The Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, also known as Revolution of 1911 or the Chinese Revolution, was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing , and established the Republic of China...
100 year anniversary, the Great HanKou.
He appeared as a small role "Xu Deheng", a student movement leader, in the all-star movie "Creation of the Party" in September 2010.
Transformation
His transformation started in late 2008 in a big TV project of 300-episode Chinese Family. He played a leading role in part I as an ideal husband who lived in the fight between his wife and mother, and made all his effort saving the family. He is rich, mature, decent, loving kids, respectful to parents, loyal to his love, good on deal with all kinds of relationships. His role does not exist in real life, but his performance make people believe in the perfect man.He gave a try in a comedy Rent a girlfriend for the New Year in 2009. He played a handsome and well educated men who could not get out of tragedy caused by the breakup of his first girl friend eight years ago. As the only son in the family, he has to please his family by pretending living a normal happy life. So he hired a girl as his girl friend to go home with him for the New Year. In a beautiful setting in a small ancient town rich with Chinese culture, it delivered a funny and warm story about a traditional Chinese family with a happy ending. Du is a charming men, arrogant and fashion on surface, but a good heart and caring underneath. This TV show is very hot on internet and brought him a lot of young fans.
After he played so many emperors, heroes, he changed to be a regular person living on the bottom of the society as a security guard in TV drama Nanny and Security Guard. He was mistaken as a real guard by nearby people who had no knowledge of the TV shooting. He presented detailed pictures of the struggle and love of the poor people. Close to reality, this story touched many people's hearts and the TV drama received very high rating in many TV channels.
The biggest changes are two small roles he took in 2010 as villains. One is Ximen Qing, a notorious playboy figure in Chinese classical literature All Men Are Brothers, who had relationship with a married lady and murdered her husband together, and eventually killed by the brother of the deceased man. He did not take pay to play this character, he just wanted to try a totally different role. The other one is an ambitious general in Three Kingdom Era who would do anything to get his power in another costume drama, the Legend of the Honest Stone, which is planned to be premiered on CCTV-1 on New Year’s day 2011.
He finished shooting of Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior in April 2010 which is a remake of the classical movie played by Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....
and Gong Li
Gong Li
Gong Li is a Chinese film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States....
. This is a romantic story covering three love stories in three dynasties between two lovers, his co star being Ady An. He finished a youth comedy “Puberty hit Menopause” in May 2010 and just start shooting another modern drama "Grown Up" in Oct 2010.
Singing
Du Chun's passion for singing has become known, as he has sung on soundtracks in his TV dramas:2008 “Dilemma”(Enemy Camp for 18 Years) and 2009 “Truthful” (Nanny and Securiety Guard).
He will also sing the theme song in his new TV drama “Love and Fight with a Terracotta Warrior".
TV host
Appeared on October 10, 2009 on CCTV-6 Movie Channel as a Star anchorHosted four episodes of Success Factors in Jilin TV in 2008.
Personal life
Du Chun lives in low profile life. He believes “reward is proportional to efforts”. He lives in Beijing, but rarely home due to his busy acting schedule. He is well liked by his colleagues and never had any rumors or scandals in the news. He likes photography. He communicates with his fans through blogs in which he often gives updates about his new roles and photos, as well as shares his feelings about the world, especially related to natural disasters and environmental issues. He called for prayers and donations many times when disaster happened. He is a good son to his mother and father even though they divorced many years ago, which won him the title of “Top Ten Model Sons of Filial PietyFilial piety
In Confucian ideals, filial piety is one of the virtues to be held above all else: a respect for the parents and ancestors. The Confucian classic Xiao Jing or Classic of Xiào, thought to be written around 470 BCE, has historically been the authoritative source on the Confucian tenet of xiào /...
(孝子)” in 2010. He was also named the “2009 Youth Inspirational Figure in China” and established himself as a role model for the young people for his positive attitude and diligent work.
Filmography
| Year | English title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Founding of a Party The Founding of a Party The Founding of a Party, alternatively titled in English Beginning of the Great Revival for its international release, is a Chinese film released in 2011 to mark the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China... |
建党伟业 | Xu Deheng |
| Year | English title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Han Wu Dadi | 汉武大帝 | Young Liu Che Emperor Wu of Han Emperor Wu of Han , , personal name Liu Che , was the seventh emperor of the Han Dynasty of China, ruling from 141 BC to 87 BC. Emperor Wu is best remembered for the vast territorial expansion that occurred under his reign, as well as the strong and centralized Confucian state he organized... |
appeared in episode 16-24 |
| 2004 | Vixen Executive | 少女总裁 | Jiang Nanyu | 25 episodes |
| 2005 | Pretty Girls in Jianghu | 江湖俏佳人 | Hei Mu | Supporting role |
| 2005 | The Legend of the Banner Hero | 大旗英雄传 | Tie Zhongtang | 40 episodes, Won 2007 TV rating "Best costume drama Award" |
| 2005 | Yellow River Homage | 大河颂 | Kangxi Emperor Kangxi Emperor The Kangxi Emperor ; Manchu: elhe taifin hūwangdi ; Mongolian: Энх-Амгалан хаан, 4 May 1654 –20 December 1722) was the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Pass and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1661 to 1722.Kangxi's... |
not air yet |
| 2006 | Prince to Pauper | 换子成龙 | Lin Junshan | 42 episodes |
| 2006 | Logistic Depot 51 | 51号兵站 | Little Boss/Liang Hong | 26 episodes, 2007 - Won "Best Actor Award" in 2007 Southern China Festival |
| 2007 | Love with No Regret | 爱无悔 | Du Haoran | 36 episodes |
| 2007 | Mistaken Son | 非亲父子 | Qiao Xiaodong | 24 episodes |
| 2007 | Enemy Camp for 18 Years | 敌营十八年 | Jiang Bo | 40 episodes |
| 2008 | Enemy Camp for 18 Years 2 | 虎胆雄心(敌营十八年2) | Jiang Bo | 44 episodes |
| 2008 | Emigrate to the West | 走西口 | Tian Qing | 52 episodes, Won "the audience favorite Actor Award" by CCTV viewers |
| 2008 | Chinese Family | 中国家庭 | Yan Chuan | 30 episodes |
| 2009 | Rent a Girlfriend for the New Year | 租个女友回家过年 | Sun Yiwei | 24 episodes |
| 2009 | To the South We Go | 南下 | Meng Siyuan | 40 episodes |
| 2009 | Nanny and Security Guard | 保姆与保安 | Li Guoling | 33 episodes |
| 2009 | Kill Traitor | 锄奸 | Li Biao | 34 episodes |
| 2010 | Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior | 古今大战秦俑情 | Meng Tianfang/Lan Tian/Luo Kaiping | 43 episodes |
| 2010 | Puberty hit Menopause | 青春期撞上更年期 | Deng Jiaqi | In production |
| 2010 | Great Hankou | 大汉口 | Lu Xiuwu | In production |
| 2010 | Hello 30 | 30岁你好 | Dong Youyi | In production |
| 2011 | All Men Are Brothers | 水滸傳 | Ximen Qing |
Awards and nominations
"2010 - Won Third Huading Award "Rookie of the Year Best performance of the Chinese Actor""2010 - Won title of 2010 "China Top Ten Model Sons of Filial Piety”
"2009 - Nominated for Best Actor on the 49th Monte Carlo International Television Festival
“2009 - Named Youth inspirational figure in China (Youth Role Model)"
"2007 - Won "Best Actor Award" in 2007 Southern China Festival
Reference
1 “Du Chun’s Red Idol” Culture and Art of China, May 2009, cover story
2 “Du Chun’s Portrait of Liang Hong” Film Pictorial --China, Vol 291, April 2008 cover story
3 “Du Chun and his ‘Little Boss’” Popular Cinema (China) vol 12, 2007
4 “Story of Du Chun: Seven collaboration with his Father” Popular Cinema (China) Vol 3, 2009
5“Du Chun’s performance: Bright as lighting, Cool as Snow“ Fashion & Life (Taizhou, China) vol 12 2007
6. Du Chun’s information on Chinese Central Television Site
7. Du Chun’s information on Chinese Broadcast and TV Association official site
8. Du Chun’s Chinese Wiki
10. Announcement “Du Chun Named 2009 Youth Inspirational Figure”
11. News “Du Chun awarded as Top Ten Model Sons of Filial piety in Chinese Entertainment world”
12. 49th Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2009 Normination
Links
1. Du Chun Baidu Baike2. Du Chun Sina blog
3. Du Chun official website
4. Du Chun’s information