You Zhou

Biography

You Zhou was born on May 23, 1991 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. He began his artistic career in 2008 when he was selected as a book model for author Rao Shuman after participating in a book model casting competition, and served as a model for her novels including The Left Ear, The Hourglass, Over, The Secret Fruit, and The Secret. He officially entered the acting world in 2013 through the TV series A Family Has a Treasure. In 2014, he starred in the advertising micro-film How Watson Defeats Holmes. In 2015, he appeared in the drama unit series Painful Seventeen and the TV series The Left Ear. In 2016, he starred in the TV series Abnormal Events Collection and appeared in the film Qinghe Boys' High. In 2017, he joined the talent agency Dongshen Future, starred in the film Lobster Cop and the TV series Youth Parabola, and became a regular host of the reality show Twenty-Four Hours Season 2 on Zhejiang Television. In 2018, he won the Best Emerging Actor award at the 13th Chinese Youth Film Forum for his film Mirror Man: Tomorrow's Youth, and starred in the film The Big Shot and the TV series My Babylonian Lover. In the summer of 2018, his acting career temporarily stalled. In 2019, he starred in the campus drama The Winds of Youth and the film Stray Horse. In 2020, he starred in the TV series If Life Could Be Like the First Meeting. In 2022, his short film Alone was selected as the opening film of the Super Short Film category at the 16th FIRST International Film Festival.