王人美

简介

Wang Renmei (original name Wang Shuxi) was born and raised in Changsha, Hunan Province. Her father Wang Zhengshu was a mathematics teacher at the First Normal School of Hunan Province in Changsha. Her mother died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage when she was seven. After her father's death, she moved with her siblings to Wuhan, and later the family scattered to Wuxi. In 1928, she went to Shanghai and studied singing and dancing at the Shanghai Beautiful Girls' School founded by Li Jinhui. She toured Southeast Asia with the Chinese Song and Dance Troupe, then joined the Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe, becoming one of its "Four Heavenly Kings." She entered cinema in 1931 when the troupe merged with Lianhua Film Studio. She achieved great success with the film "Wild Rose" in 1932 and starred in "The Fishermen's Song" in 1934, which became the first Chinese film to win an international award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1935. In 2005, she was selected among the hundred outstanding actors of the century of Chinese cinema.