Biography
Zhao Tao started out as a dancer, and is now an internationally renowned actress. She earned a degree in Chinese Folk Dance from the Beijing Dance Academy, and was teaching at Taiyuan Normal College when she was discovered by China's leading art film director, Jia Zhang Ke, She soon became his muse, starring in several of his films including Still Life, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. Zhao and Jia married in 2012. Zhao won the David di Donatello Award (the Italian Oscar) for Best Actress for her starring role in Shun Li and the Poet.
Actress
Movies | |
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2024 |
Caught by the Tides |
2018 |
Ash Is Purest White |
2017 |
Where Has the Time Gone? |
2015 |
Mountains May Depart |
2013 |
A Touch of Sin |
2011 |
Li and the Poet |
2010 |
Ten Thousand Waves |
2006 |
Still Life |
2004 |
The World |
2002 |
Unknown Pleasures |
2000 |
Platform |
Documentaries | |
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2011 |
3.11 Sense of Home |
2010 |
I Wish I Knew |
2008 |
24 City |
Short | |
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2015 |
Smog Journeys |
2009 |
Remembrance |
2008 |
Cry Me a River |
2007 |
Ten Years |