- Born
- Birth nameWei Feng
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Feng was born in an affluent family of Shanghai. He displayed his interests in acting and performance from a young age. Influenced by his mother, an art enthusiast, Feng entered the Shanghai Theater Academy and studied acting. After he graduated in 2001, Feng chose an acting career and worked as a television actor for ten years before rising to fame overnight with his performance in a period drama, Gong (2011).
Feng soon turned his focus to film, and intends to pursue a diverse mix of roles. In White Vengeance (2011), he gives a distinctive performance by playing a tragic hero, Xiang Yu. Feng challenges himself in Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013) with intensive Kung Fu fight scenes. In the award-wining biopic The Golden Era (2014) directed by Ann Hui, Feng plays a controversial left-wing writer, Xiao Jun, and develops a love-hate relationship with one of China's greatest modern writer, Xiao Hong. Feng also displays his comedian talents in box-office hits like Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012) and The Continent (2014). Handpicked by director Jean-Jacques Annaud, he stars the Chinese-French corporation Wolf Totem (2015), which is adapted from the renowned best-seller of the same name. Feng played a college student went to inner Mongolia during the Cultural Evolution.
Feng also develops an interest in fantasy films after filming The Monkey King 2 (2016), in which he plays the famous Monk Tang Sanzang, along with megastar Li Gong and Aaron Kwok, going on the journey to the West. He stars China's first Sci-Fi movie, The Three-Body Problem: I (2017), based on the first translated novel winning the Hugo Award. Further, Feng takes producing duties behind the scenes in the fantasy TV shows that he stars, such as Ice Fantasy (2016) and The Starry Night, the Starry Sea (2017).
Shaofeng Feng is now one of the leading actors of his generation by keeping a balance between commercial hits and artistic films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Frontal Cortex
- SpouseLiying Zhao(September 2018 - April 23, 2021) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenXiang Xiang
- Light-brown colored eyes
- Adept at crying scenes
- frequently works in front of a green screen
- Establishes a deep bond with the wolf actor C-Saw when filming Wolf Totem (2015) in Inner Mongolia. After C-Saw retired and moved to a Canadian ranch, Feng adopts him and provides life-long financial assistance.
- While his role in Wolf Totem (2015), Chen Zhang, is age 21, he was actually 35 when shooting the film.
- Likes Julia Roberts and her performance in Notting Hill (1999). He visited Notting Hill in London when shooting the Chinese remake of My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), which also stars Julia Roberts.
- Before starting his film career, he was a television actor for ten years, making his appearances in more than than 100 television episodes but received little attention.
- When filming The Golden Era (2014), Feng learned his co-actress, Tang Wei, fasted to simulate her character's state of hunger that depicted in the scripts. He also tried to do the same and fast, but ended up fainted and failed.
- I prefer myself to be a boring person in real-life, so I can turn all my passion into the characters I portray.
- People craving money are not indeed greedy; I am a greedy man, and want much more than that.
- I choose to live for myself, and I will pay for whatever it costs.
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