Zhao Tao [24044] Gender: Female Popularity: 0.5946 Birthplace: Taiyuan - Shanxi - China Birthday: 1977-01-28 Age: 48 years Movies: 24 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Zhao Tao (Chinese: 赵涛, born 28 January 1977) is a famous Chinese actress, work in China and Europe, she has over 10 films to her credit since starting her career in 1999, muse of director Jia Zhangke. Zhao first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Jia Zhangke and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe, especially Italy. As Shun Li in Io sono Li, her best starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at David di Donatello. Zhao's native language is Jinese, but she is multilingual, having learned to speak Italian, Mandarin and Szechuanese. Biography She was born January 28, 1977, in Taiyuan, Shanxi, which is also the hometown of the heroine in Still Life. As a child, she studied classical Chinese dance. In 1996, she enrolled in the folk dance department at Beijing Dance Academy. After graduation, she became a dance teacher in Taiyuan Normal College, where she was spotted by Jia during casting for Platform. Since then they work frequently together. In 2011 she starred in the Italian movie Shun Li and the Poet by Andrea Segre, the movie was screened in the Venice Days section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Zhao won the David di Donatello Award, the Italian Oscar, for Best Actress for her bilingual role. Caught by the Ti2024-11-22 Ash Is Purest Wh2018-09-21 An Elephant Sitt2018-12-14 Where Has Time G2017-10-19 Revive2017-06-15 Mountains May De2015-10-30 Smog Journeys2015-01-22 Jia Zhangke, A G2014-10-20 A Touch of Sin2013-10-04 3.11 A Sense of 2011-09-11 Shun Li and the 2011-09-23 Ten Thousand Wav2010-10-13 I Wish I Knew2010-07-02 Remembrance2008-11-29 Black Breakfast2008-10-23 Cry Me a River2008-07-11 24 City2008-09-27 Our Ten Years2007-09-29 Still Life2006-11-16 Walking on the W2006-03-24 The World2004-09-01 Unknown Pleasure2002-06-06 Platform2001-08-29 Untitled Jia Zha