Chen Yao

Biography

Chen Yao is a Chinese actress born on October 31, 1994, in Panzhihua, Sichuan Province. She graduated from the Performance Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 2013. Her path to acting began in high school when an arts school teacher persuaded her to pursue performance instead of science, leading her to abandon her dream of studying medicine and enroll in the Beijing Film Academy, where she was successfully admitted. While studying at the academy, she was selected by Tangren Media to play the role of Yue Qiluo in the web drama "Wu Xin Fa Shi," which aired in 2015 to widespread acclaim. Chen Yao rose to fame through her outstanding portrayal of the powerful century-old female demon and won the Best Supporting Actress in a Web Drama award at the Jin Gu Duo Awards. In 2016, she appeared in the historical fantasy drama "Qing Qiu Hu Shuo" as the optimistic three-tailed red fox Hua Yue, and took on the lead role in the drama "To Our Youth." In 2017, she cross-gender played the scheming young master Xiao Ding Mao in "Wu Xin Fa Shi II." In 2022, her contract with Tangren Media expired and she joined Zhongshi Tongcheng Company.