张家声

简介

Zhang Jiasheng (1935–2021) was a prominent Chinese voice actor and theatre performer of Hui ethnicity, born in Cangzhou, Hebei Province. In 1950, he enrolled in the Beijing National Hui Academy, and after graduating worked as a secondary school teacher. In 1956, responding to the State Council's call for in-service cadres to pursue university education, he applied to and was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1960 and being assigned to the Central Experimental Theatre. Zhang Jiasheng dedicated his artistic career primarily to the recitation of poetry and literature, narration for television films, theatrical acting and directing, participating in the creation of over one hundred works. His voice was described as "round and rich, high and bright, magnetic and captivating," and he delivered scripts and narration with a distinctive rhythm that earned him great audience affection. In 1991, he was named "Nation's Favorite Broadcasting Artist" by the China Radio and Television Society, and in 1999 he received the "National First Prize for Full-Length Novel Broadcasting." One of the most notable moments of his career was the 1981 broadcast of the novel "How the Steel Was Tempered" on national radio, which brought him over a thousand letters from listeners, including 23 from people who had contemplated suicide, expressing that his performance inspired them to change their outlook on life. He served as a first-class actor at the National Theatre Company of China and passed away on October 4, 2021.