Xiao Fangfang, whose ancestral home is in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and whose grandfather is Xiao Bingli, lives in the ancient town's most intact Qing Dynasty residential house - Xiaozhai. is Xiao's famous family.
After 40 years of filmmaking, Xiao Fangfang has performed in more than 300 films. She is an extraordinary woman who constantly strives to realize her dreams.
When she was a child star, she was once hailed as China's Shirley Temple by Hong Kong and Taiwan movie fans. The movie theme song "Only Mom is Good in the World" she sang was introduced into Taiwanese movie .
In 1995, she won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actress Award, and the Berlin International Film Festival Best Actress Award for her movie "Woman Forty".
In 1998, she founded the Child Protection Fund to actively promote the message of "protecting children from sexual abuse."
After 2000, Xiao Fangfang was troubled by ear problems, which made her physical condition poor. Therefore, she stopped performing and focused on studying, and obtained a master's degree in child psychology.
In 2009, Xiao Fangfang received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards Awards Ceremony in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Hong Kong film industry by making good use of his talents.
Don’t be arrogant, focus on cultivation
Although Xiao Fangfang entered the entertainment industry at a young age, she has always maintained a high degree of self-consciousness about the improvement of personal accomplishment. When she was a child, she received a personal letter from her mother’s mentor Fu Lei to give guidance and learn calligraphy. The letter was later included in In "Fu Lei Talks about Art" edited by Fu Min.
In 1970, she decided to study in the United States and obtained a bachelor's degree in mass communications three years later.
The title of the first Hong Kong "Bachelor Movie Star" did not satisfy Xiao Fangfang. After returning to Hong Kong to shoot a movie, Xiao Fangfang went to the United States again to study for a doctorate. Unfortunately, due to physical reasons, this learning journey came to an abrupt end.
After several years of study, Xiao Fangfang began to study how to maintain the image of a "beautiful girl" in movies. In the movie "Girlfriend" adapted from Qiong Yao 's novel of the same name, Xiao Fangfang was willing to "act as a partner" for Brigitte Lin who had just debuted.
Facts have proved that her decision is quite worthwhile. At the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards that year, , the award for Best Supporting Actress was given to Xiao Fangfang without hesitation.
From New Wave to Berlin Film Queen
Many actors will say in interviews that being an actor is a passive profession, but for Xiao Fangfang, this theory does not hold true. After "Jade Girl" successfully transformed into an actress in literary and artistic films, Xiao Fangfang also tried to co-write, direct and star in the police film "Jumping Ashes". The film has novel techniques and distinctive style, and has been highly praised by the industry. It is known as the prelude to the new wave of Hong Kong films. After
, Xiao Fangfang discovered her comedy talent again. She first formed her own film company to bring the silly elder sister Lin Yazhen she portrayed on the TV screen to the big screen.
also won the Best Actress Award at the Spanish Film Festival for "Hai Yun".
Then, she played the leading role in "Crash" directed by Ann Hui. The film won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 1981 London Film Festival.
After that, Xiao Fangfang made a series of comedies, and set a record for the highest salary for a Hong Kong and Taiwan female star at that time.
In the early 1980s, Xiao Fangfang met Zhang Zhengfu, a senior executive of TVB who was known as the "Hong Kong Talent". The two fell in love at first sight and soon got married and had two daughters.
In 1985, Australian TV station invited Zhang Zhengfu to take up a high-level administrative position, and Xiao Fangfang resolutely followed her husband to move to Australia. "Among the three identities in my life, the roles of wife and mother are always higher than 'actor'." Xiao Fangfang said.
Xiying: Nearly deaf but never say retirement
"I will never say retirement." This is Xiao Fangfang's promise to the audience who likes her. But because of her ear disease, Xiao Fangfang can now ignore other people's yelling in front of her face, "Even if he scolds me, I only hear a little noise."
Such a state has made Xiao Fangfang really no longer shocked since 1996. Even Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer" invited her to guest star, but Xiao Fangfang politely refused.
In a recent interview, Xiao Fangfang said half-jokingly: “A while ago, a director wanted to invite me to come back to film and told me that I only need to shoot for two hours a day. Then my daughter asked me, are they asking you to act out a woman getting older? Otherwise, if it takes two hours a day, wouldn’t it take ten years to complete a film? "
The most familiar movie of Xiao Fangfang to mainland audiences is "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu" in which she collaborated with Jet Li . The skilled and humorous Miao Cuihua is still talked about by movie fans. In 1995, she was nearly fifty years old. Xiao Fangfang accepted the invitation of director Hui On-wa to star in "Women at 40". With her relaxed and sophisticated performance, Xiao Fangfang won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress again, and became the second Berlin Best Actress in Hong Kong after Maggie Cheung. .
It is said that Xiao Fangfang was almost completely deaf at the time. When her name was announced on the stage, she could no longer hear it, and she had to be reminded by her neighbor to go on stage to receive the award. But in this physical condition, Xiao Fangfang was still there. In 1996, she performed the role of Leng Jianhui in "Tiger Door", paying tribute to the famous Cantonese opera actor Ren Jianhui whom she worked with as a child star. In this film, Xiao Fangfang showed her self-taught opera performance when she was young. Xiao Fangfang was honored as the Best Actress of the Golden Horse Film Festival and the Best Actress of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, and was called the "Movie Goddess" by the media.
Although it has been a long time since a new film was released, Xiao Fangfang was not lonely when she was still on the set. She once said with a smile: "Deaf." How can you live your life without reading? ! "
In the world of words built by Fu Lei, Shen Congwen, Lao She, Xiao Hong and others, the life of 71-year-old Xiao Fangfang is still rich and fulfilling.
Now Xiao Fangfang has returned to her hometown, low-key searching for her roots, and returned to the land of our Xiao clan. Join the clan members in giving back to the Xiao family and carrying forward the family culture together
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