Li Shengsu

Biography

Li Shengsu is a prominent Chinese Peking Opera actress from Hebei province, born on February 16, 1966. She began her artistic career at the age of ten when she joined the Baixiang County troupe to study acting. She specialized in qingyi and huashan roles and studied under renowned masters such as Liu Xiurong and Mei Baojiu. She served as the head of the Mei Lanfang Youth Troupe at the Shanxi Province Peking Opera Academy before transferring to the China National Peking Opera Company in Beijing. She has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Best Performance Award at the National Youth Peking Opera Competition in 1987, the Best Performance Award at the National Young and Middle-Aged Peking Opera Actors Television Grand Prix in 1991, and the Plum Blossom Award for Drama in 1996. Her teacher Mei Baojiu considered her his best student in 2009. In 2017, she won the Best Actress Award in the opera category at the China Gold Record Award for her work "Symphonic Peking Opera - Women of the Yang Family".