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简介

Xu Xiulin is a Chinese stage, film and television actress, born in Beijing in 1940. She attended Beijing Girls' No. 13 Middle School and graduated in 1964 from the Acting Department of the Beijing Institute of Arts. After graduation, she was assigned to the Workers and Miners Team of the Beijing Cultural Troupe. During the Cultural Revolution, the cultural troupe was disbanded, and she was transferred to the Beijing People's Art Theatre and then sent to the "May 7" cadre school for labor reform. After the Cultural Revolution, she became active on the stage again, and during the first national actor rating, she was exceptionally rated as a National First-Class Actress for her outstanding performance. In 1995, director Feng Xiaogang cast her in the film "A Story of Ruined Hopes" (一地鸡毛), after which she became active in film and television, mostly playing roles of "mothers" and "mothers-in-law." Her most representative work is the TV series "The Happy Life of Zhang Damin the Big-Mouthed" (贫嘴张大民的幸福生活), for which she won the Audience's Favorite Supporting Actress award at the 18th China TV Golden Eagle Awards.