Jiao Huang

Jiao was born in Beijing, on July 8, 1936, while his ancestral home in Zhangjiakou, Hebei. His father, Jiao Shufan, graduated from Yenching University and was a teacher at the University of International Business and Economics after the establishment of the Communist State in 1949. Due to the Second Sino-Japanese War, his family moved to Shanghai. In 1955, he was accepted to Shanghai Theatre Academy, where he graduated in 1959. After university, he was assigned to Shanghai Youth Drama Troupe.

Jiao first came to public attention in 1958 at the age of 22, appearing on Xie Jin's Small stories in Big Waves.

In 1966, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, Jiao was brought to be persecuted and forced to work in the fields instead of acting.

In 1975, he got a small role as a spy in the war film Memorable Battle.

Jiao received his first leading role in a feature film called Desert Camel (1978).

In 1983, he starred with Wang Hui and Guo Weilin in Pioneers' Footprints.

Jiao became widely known to audiences with Antony and Cleopatra (1984), a tragedy by William Shakespeare.^[6]

In 1986, he was cast in Bible for Girls, which is set to premiere at the same year.

In 1987, he earned critical acclaim for his performance as He Jingming in Engineers, for which he received a Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Flying Apsaras Awards.

He co-starred with You Yong and Song Jia in Spacious Courtyard, adapted from Qiong Yao's romance novel of the same title.

In 1991, he played the lead role in Xie Fei's drama film The Sun om the Roof of the World.

In 1993, he was cast as Ding Han in First Attraction, opposite Xi Meijuan, Xu Huanshan and Zheng Qianlong.

Jiao's role as the Kangxi Emperor on the historical television series Yongzheng Dynasty (1997) brought him to the attention of a wider audience; he received an Outstanding Supporting Actor at the 17th China TV Golden Eagle Awards and won a Best Actor at the 19th Flying Sky Television Awards.

In 2000, he played the role of Zhong Chaolin in Hu Mei's television series Loyal, for which he received an Audience's Choice for Actor nomination at the 20th China TV Golden Eagle Awards.^[7]

In 2002, he portrayed the Qianlong Emperor in the historical television series Qianlong Dynasty.^[8] That same year, he had key supporting role as Kangxi Emperor in Li Wei the Magistrate.

He had a supporting role as Emperor Jing of Han in the historical television series The Emperor in Han Dynasty (2004).

In 2006, he earned an Outstanding Supporting Actor nomination at the 27th Flying Sky Television Awards for his performance as Li Guorong in Return In Glory.^[9]

Jiao made a guest appearance as Laozi on Confucius, a biographical film starring Chow Yun-fat as Confucius.^[10]

In 2013, Jiao played the title role in All Quiet in Peking, co-starring Liu Ye, Chen Baoguo and Ni Dahong.^[11]

He appeared as Qianlong Emperor in Hu Mei's Enter the Forbidden City (2019).^[12]

Jiao was married three times.^[13] His third wife, Chen Xiaoli (陈小丽), was a reporter of Wen Wei Po.^[13] They have a daughter.^[13] His son is an American citizen.^[13]

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role	Notes
1975	Memorable Battle	难忘的战斗	Liu Zhiren
1978	Desert Camel	沙漠驼铃	Zhu Guanghan
1983	Pioneers' Footprints	拓荒者的足迹	Xin Qiming
1986	Bible for Girls	女儿经	Nie Weiping
1989	Spacious Courtyard	庭院深深	Shi Shujun
1991	The Sun om the Roof of the World	世界屋脊的太阳	Fang Zheng
1993	First Attraction	第一诱惑	Ding Han
1997	790 Hotline	790热线	Professor Song
2010	Confucius	孔子	Laozi
2019	Enter the Forbidden City	进京城	Qianlong Emperor

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role	Notes
1985	Left by the Lake	遗落在湖畔	The Writer
1979	Engineers	工程师们	He Jingming
1992	Zhu Ziqing	朱自清	Wen Yiduo
1999	Yongzheng Dynasty	雍正王朝	Kangxi Emperor
2001	Loyal	忠诚	Zhong Chaolin
2002	Motor City	汽车城	Pan Shude
	Li Wei the Magistrate	李卫当官	Kangxi Emperor
2003	Qianlong Dynasty	乾隆王朝	Qianlong Emperor
2005	The Emperor in Han Dynasty	汉武大帝	Emperor Jing of Han
2006	Return In Glory	荣归	Li Guorong
2014	All Quiet in Peking	北平无战事	He Qicang

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role	Notes
1957	Much Ado About Nothing	无事生非
1984	Antony and Cleopatra	安东尼与克莉奥佩特拉
2009	The Government Inspector	钦差大臣