Wang Quanzhen

Biography

Wang Quanzhen is a Chinese Yu opera performer born in 1963 in Zhengyang, Henan. At age 12, she entered the Henan Opera School to study acting, and after graduating in 1981, she joined the Henan Experimental Yu Troupe. She won first prize in the 1982 Henan Young Actors Competition and moved to the Henan Yu Opera First Troupe in 1983, where she received the "Asia Best Female Dan Role" title and the National Yu Opera TV Grand Prize Best Actress award. She transferred to the Third Yu Troupe in 1989, left the arts for business in 1992, and returned to the stage in 1999. She won the 19th China Theatre Plum Blossom Award in 2002 and the 16th Shanghai Bai Yulan Theatre Performance Award in 2006. She is a close disciple of Yu opera master Chang Xiangyu and the first postgraduate student in Yu opera.