Discover the most talented male actors, singers, and models originating from Zhejiang. From C-drama icons to international fashion models, explore the diverse range of entertainment stars born in this cultural hub. Learn more about their career milestones and the global impact of Zhejiang’s finest performers.
Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow Sing-chi (Chinese: 周星馳; born 22 June 1962) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor, known for his mo lei tau comedy. His career began in television, where he gained recognition through variety shows and TV dramas. Chow’s breakthrough came in 1989 with the comedy dramas The Final Combat and The Justice of Life, the latter marking the beginning of his on-screen collaboration with Ng Man-tat. He consecutively broke Hong Kong’s box office records in the next two years with films All for the Winner (1990) and Fight Back to School (1991), cementing his status as one of the region’s most popular comedic actors.
Yitian Hu
Hu Yitian (Chinese: 胡一天; Chinese: 胡壹天; pinyin: Hú Yītiān; born 26 December 1993) is a Chinese actor. He made his acting debut in the television drama A Rush to Dead Summer (2017), and subsequently starred in the 2017 hit web series A Love So Beautiful.
Hu Bing
Hu Bing (born February 14, 1971) is a Chinese actor, model, singer, designer and producer. He started as a fashion model in 1990 and been a top male model in China for over 20 years. He won the “Top Chinese Male Model” title in 1991 and was the first Chinese male model to walk the international fashion runway. Since then, Hu has been the image for many top international fashion names such as Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, etc. Hu started his transition from the fashion runway to the TV screen in 1996 and became a household name after the success of the TV drama Love Talks (1999), in which he played the male leading role. Continuously from 2000 to 2005, Hu was voted one of the four most popular young actors in China (Hu left China to further strengthen his performing aptitude in an American institute in 2005). Hu is known for his on-screen portrayals in both China and Japan as an actor, and as a fashion icon all across East Asia.
Michael Kiu Wai Miu
Michael Miu Kiu-wai (苗僑偉) (born 18 June 1958) is a Hong Kong actor and businessman. His career has been met with popular success in his youth, followed by a resurgence in middle age after a period of hiatus. He is considered one of the most popular Hong Kong actors of the 1980s. Miu is best known for the villainous Yeung Hong in the 1983 television drama The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
Chen Xuedong
Chen Xuedong (simplified Chinese: 陈学冬; traditional Chinese: 陳學冬; pinyin: Chén Xuédōng, born 28 June 1990), also known as Cheney Chen, is a Chinese actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Zhou Chongguang in the film series Tiny Times (2013–2015).
Wang Anyu
Wang Anyu (Chinese: 王安宇; born 3 February 1998), is a Chinese actor. He is best known for his roles in dramas Dreaming Back to the Qing Dynasty (2019), Twenty Your Life On (2020), The Heiress (2020), The Last Immortal (2023), and Romance in the Alley (2024).
Mao Zijun
Mao Zijun (Chinese: 茅子俊, born 31 December 1986) is a Chinese actor.
Bing Shao
Shao Bing (邵兵) is a Chinese actor who has won a Huabiao Award.
Yueh Sun
Sun Yueh (Chinese: 孫越; pinyin: Sūn Yuè; 26 October 1930 – 1 May 2018) was a Taiwanese actor.
Yong Dong
Dong Yong (other names: 董勇, Tung Yung; born 15 December 1968, China) is a Chinese actor. He studied singing, opera and kung-fu.
Mu-jih Yuan
Yuan Muzhi (Chinese: 袁牧之; March 3, 1909 – January 30, 1978) was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People’s Republic of China.
Gao Hanyu
Gao Hanyu (Chinese: 高瀚宇; born 6 February 1989), also known as Kido, is a Chinese actor and singer.
Zhang Zongyi
Zhang Zongyi (simplified Chinese: 章宗义; traditional Chinese: 章宗義; pinyin: Zhāng Zōngyì; 16 March 1924 – 31 January 2014), better known by his stage name Liu Ling Tong (六龄童; literally: “Six Year Old Child”) and famously known as “Nan Hou Wang” (南猴王; literally: “Southern Monkey King”), was a Chinese Shao opera actor and artist best known for his role as the Monkey King (Sun Wukong) in Shao opera. He was president of the Zhejiang Shao Opera Theatre and a member of special government allowances of the State Council of Experts. He was a member of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Wang Ying
Wang Ying (Chinese: 王霙; pinyin: Wāng Yīng) is a Chinese actor. He has won the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Actor, 9th Golden Phoenix Award, Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor, and received the 22nd and 25th China Golden Eagle Awards for Favorite Actor.
Weibang Ma-Xu
Ma-Xu Weibang (simplified Chinese: 马徐维邦; traditional Chinese: 馬徐維邦; pinyin: Mǎ-Xú Wéibāng; 1905–1961) was a Chinese film director active in mainland China from the 1920s to 1940s, and later in Hong Kong, perhaps best known for his work in the horror genre, the most important unarguably being The Phantom of the Opera-inspired, Song at Midnight. Ma-Xu was also known for a few acting roles early in his career, as well as for being a screenwriter. The director of 33 known films, much of Ma-Xu’s early work has been lost.
