Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer

Zhao Wei

Zhao Wei, also known as Vicky or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, singer, filmmaker, and businesswoman. Regarded as one of China's Four Dan actresses, she rose to fame for her role in the television series My Fair Princess (1998–1999), followed by such popular dramas and films as Romance in the Rain (2001), Shaolin Soccer (2001), Moment in Peking (2005), Painted Skin (2008), Mulan (2009), Dearest (2014), for which she won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress, Lost in Hong Kong (2015) and Tiger Mom (2015). Zhao made her directorial debut with So Young (2013), which is a commercial and critical success. She is also a singer with 7 albums and the second largest shareholder of Alibaba Pictures.

Born

1976

March 12

Died

Living

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1970s

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1976 Born

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538 Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
1088 Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
1158 German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
1391 Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).

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The world in 1976

When Zhao arrived

april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Dale Murphy 1956– American baseball player Dave Eggers 1970– American author and screenwriter George Berkeley 1685–1753 Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (born 1685) John Aubrey 1626– English historian and philosopher (died 1697) Mary Karadja 1868–1943 Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (died 1943) Pádraig Faulkner 1918–2012 Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (born 1918) Steve Finley 1965– American baseball player Thomas Arne 1710–1778 English composer (died 1778)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Alan Carr 1976– English comedian, actor, and screenwriter Alan Faneca 1976– American football player Anna Friel 1976– English actress Antoine Walker 1976– American basketball player Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira 1976– Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer Brett Kimmorley 1976– Australian rugby league player and sportscaster Chauncey Billups 1976– American basketball player Dan Cloutier 1976– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Daniel Whiston 1976– English figure skater

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