As the saying goes, "there is no separation between style and style".
In the eyes of many people, there is not much gap between the entertainment industry and the sports world.
This is because, whether it is an entertainment star or a sports star, they are all celebrities and they are all standing in the spotlight.
Therefore, many athletes in the sports industry will choose to cross the line to enter the entertainment industry and become an actor when they retire or end their sports careers.
In today's entertainment industry, there are many actresses who are athletes, but after entering the entertainment industry, with their super acting skills, people slowly forget her identity as an athlete.
Today, let's take stock of the four actresses who turned from athletes to actors:
One: Niu Li
Niu Li, who was born in Beijing in 1972, is 52 years old this year.
Niu Li was born into a military family, and her mother was a national team athlete when she was young, and after retiring, she also worked as a coach for the Beijing shooting team.
Niu Li was a picky eater when she was a child, so her physical fitness was not very good, so her mother sent her to swim to play a role in exercising.
After practicing swimming, Niu Li's talent is not high, there is neither speed nor strength in the water, and later the Beijing synchronized swimming team was established, and Niu Li's swimming team was selected to select members, although Niu Li's swimming level is not good, but her figure is good, so she was selected.
In 1983, at the age of 11, Niu Li joined the Beijing synchronized swimming team, and three years later she and her teammates won the first national women's synchronized swimming team championship.
After winning the national championship, in order to study hard and be admitted to a good middle school, Niu Li chose to quit the Beijing synchronized swimming team.
After going to middle school, Niu Li's mother wanted her daughter to practice shooting with her, so she contacted Niu Li with a shooting coach.
After the coach's test, it was finally found that Niu Li was suitable for pistol sports, and in this way, Niu Li became a shooting athlete again.
Because of her mother, a former member of the national team shooting team, Niu Li's level improved very quickly, and she won the championship of the Beijing Youth Pistol Competition after practicing shooting for less than six months, and was selected by the shooting team of the Guangzhou Military Region.
Less than a year after entering the Guangzhou Military Region, Niu Li won the championship in the all-army competition, and joined the party because of meritorious service.
But what Niu Li didn't expect was that just when her career was just right, her mother transferred her from the Guangzhou Military Region to the Beijing Military Region, but who knew that it didn't take long for the shooting team of the Beijing Military Region to be disbanded.
Niu Li has actually dreamed of being an actress since she was a child, but her mother first let her practice swimming and then shooting, and she has never had the opportunity to realize her dream.
When the shooting team of the Beijing Military Region was disbanded, Niu Li proposed to her mother that she wanted to apply for an art school, but to her surprise, her mother did not object.
In this way, in 1991, Niu Li was admitted to Beijing Film Academy and the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts at the same time, and finally considering her military status, Niu Li chose to study at the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
After graduating from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, Niu Li was assigned to work in the drama troupe, and in this way, she performed on the drama stage for six or seven years.
Until 2003, she appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the first time and cooperated with Huang Hong in the sketch "Washing Feet", after which she appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala many times, cooperating with Guo Donglin, Feng Gong and many other comedians.
In addition to sketches, Niu Li also has excellent performances in many film and television dramas such as "Breaking through the Guandong" and "Old Farmer".
Two: Tao Hong
Tao Hong, who was born in 1972 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, is also 52 years old this year.
Although Tao Hong was born in Wuxi, her parents were from Beijing, her father was an engineer and her mother worked in a library at the time, and the family returned to Beijing shortly after she was born in Wuxi.
When she was a child, Tao Hong's academic performance has always been very good, and her father's education for her is also an all-round development of "morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor", so Tao Hong's physical fitness is also very good.
In 1983, when Tao Hong was 11 years old, her parents wanted her to learn dance, on the one hand, they wanted her to have one more skill, and on the other hand, they also wanted to cultivate her temperament.
In this way, his parents took Tao Hong to the Dance Academy to sign up, but who knew that in the end, Tao Hong was not admitted to the Dance Academy, but was favored by the coach of the Beijing synchronized swimming team.
In this way, 11-year-old Tao Hong also became a member of the Beijing synchronized swimming team, the athlete's training is very hard, Tao Hong, who has a superior family since childhood, was not prepared at all.
But slowly Tao Hong was not only able to keep up with the pace of her teammates, her level was also the best in the team, and the training time also went from two hours to four hours at the beginning to six, eight hours, and ten hours.
After four years of training for the Beijing synchronized swimming team, in 1987, at the age of 15, she was selected for the national synchronized swimming team, and in the same year she also won the second place in the synchronized collective swimming of the 6th National Games with her teammates.
Synchronized swimming has always been the strength of European and American countries, or directly the strength of Russia, but the young Tao Hong and his teammates are also unwilling to admit defeat, which is also the reason why many athletes have achieved good results, that is, they must have the spirit of not admitting defeat.
In 1990, 18-year-old Tao Hong won the third place in the individual synchronized swimming event at the National Synchronized Swimming Championships, and a year later Tao Hong and his team won the sixth place in the synchronized collective swimming at the World Swimming Championships.
It can be said that with the efforts of Tao Hong, the strength of the Chinese synchronized swimming team has steadily improved, but Tao Hong's age is not young, in the synchronized swimming project, with the development of athletes, she will also affect the performance of athletes.
After participating in the 7th National Games in 1993 and winning the synchronized swimming collective championship with his teammates, the 21-year-old Tao Hong chose to retire.
After retiring, when Tao Hong was thinking about what he was going to do, he was unexpectedly selected by Jiang Wen, the director who was preparing to make the movie "Sunny Days", and made a cameo appearance in this movie.
Through this experience, Tao Hong also decided to apply for art academies, and finally she was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama as promised.
After graduating from the Central Academy of Drama, Tao Hong has starred in film and television dramas such as "Black Eyes", "Spring Splendid Pig Bajie", "Spring Grass" and other film and television dramas, and also won honors such as Huabiao Award for Best Actress, Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, Feitian Award for Best Actress, Golden Eagle Award for Audience's Favorite Actress Award and so on.
At the same time, Tao Hong also fell in love with actor Xu Zheng and married because of his appearance in "Spring Splendid Pig Bajie".
Three: Left Xiao Qing
Zuo Xiaoqing, born in Changsha City, Hunan Province in 1977, is 47 years old this year.
Zuo Xiaoqing was born into a family of intellectuals, and her father, Zuo Hanzhong, was an art master and an editor.
Born in such a family, Zuo Xiaoqing's parents paid great attention to the cultivation of their daughter, when Zuo Xiaoqing was young, her parents enrolled her in painting, dance, calligraphy and other interest classes, and Zuo Xiaoqing's cultural class results have always been very good.
When he was in the fifth grade of primary school, Zuo Xiaoqing, who was not yet 10 years old, was selected by his physical education teacher to join the school's gymnastics team.
Rhythmic gymnastics is to show the beauty of women's limbs, which requires athletes to maintain training while also strictly controlling their figures.
Although Zuo Xiaoqing has been influenced by art since she was a child, she seems to be very weak, but in fact, her body is full of strength, as long as it is something she believes in, she must do it well.
As mentioned earlier, in addition to training, rhythmic gymnastics must strictly control the body, that is, weight, which requires athletes not to eat too much.
In this regard, the coach stipulates that the weight must be measured every day, and as long as the weight increases, the penalty will be run, and the minimum is 10 laps to start, so for gymnastics and dance players, weight control is the most cruel.
Once the team was on vacation, Zuo Xiaoqing's mother went home and made a big table of dishes, she ate more, who knew that when she returned to the team the next day, she weighed six taels, so the coach punished her for running 60 laps, a lap of 400 meters, and 60 laps is 24,000 kilometers.
Zuo Xiaoqing gritted his teeth and ran away, with this perseverance In 1989, 12-year-old Zuo Xiaoqing was selected for the national rhythmic gymnastics team.
Entering the national team also indicates that Zuo Xiaoqing will leave his hometown and go to Beijing, which is a big challenge for Zuo Xiaoqing, who was only 12 years old at the time.
But for the sake of his own future, Zuo Xiaoqing still resolutely went to Beijing, when he first arrived in Beijing, because he was not familiar, every time the team was on vacation, Zuo Xiaoqing stayed alone in the dormitory.
Later, after getting acquainted, Zuo Xiaoqing rarely went out for a walk, because she devoted almost all of her time to training, which also made her grades improve very quickly.
During this time, she won the national all-around championship, the foreign invitational championship, and the best result was the championship of the Four Continents Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships (because rhythmic gymnastics was not yet in the Olympic Games, which was the highest level of rhythmic gymnastics).
Rhythmic gymnastics, like synchronized swimming, will plummet once the athlete gets older, after all, both need to strictly control their weight and figure.
Therefore, after winning the biggest award in the field of rhythmic gymnastics at that time, Zuo Xiaoqing began to think about the next step, that is, what to do after retiring.
Coincidentally, she was also selected by Jiang Wen to make a cameo appearance in the movie "Sunny Days" (Tao Hong's role is "Yu Beibei", and Zuo Xiaoqing's role is "Zhang Xiaomei").
Like Tao Hong, it was also because of this cameo experience that Zuo Xiaoqing decided to apply for art academies, and finally in 1995, 18-year-old Zuo Xiaoqing was successfully admitted to Beijing Film Academy.
After that, Zuo Xiaoqing successively starred in film and television dramas such as "Never Look Back", "Chinese-Style Marriage", "Houhai is Not the Sea", "In the Silent Place" and so on.
She also won the Most Potential Actress Award at the First China TV Drama Festival, the Golden Eagle Award for the Audience's Favorite Actress Award and other honors.
Four: Liu Xuan
Liu Xuan, who was born in Changsha City, Hunan Province in 1979, is 45 years old this year.
Liu Xuan's mother was a gymnast when she was young, but at the beginning, Liu Xuan's parents did not think about letting their daughter also engage in sports in the future.
But Liu Xuan's body has been relatively weak since she was born, so when she was 5 years old, her parents sent her to the bodybuilding class of the Children's Palace, wanting to make her body stronger.
After going to elementary school, Liu Xuan still insisted on training in the bodybuilding class of the Children's Palace, of course, while training, her cultural class results have always been among the best in the class.
After training in the Children's Palace for about three years, Liu Xuan was selected by the Hunan Provincial Gymnastics Team at the age of 8 and became a professional gymnast.
After training for about four or five years with the Hunan provincial team, 13-year-old Liu Xuan won the uneven bars championship at the National Gymnastics Championships in 1992 and was selected by the national team.
After entering the national team, Liu Xuan trained harder, and at the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, she won the team championship and the individual uneven bars runner-up.
In 1995, Liu Xuan won three gold medals in the women's balance beam, floor exercise, and women's individual all-around in the China Cup International Gymnastics Competition, which made everyone look forward to her performance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
But who knows, when Liu Xuan won the first place in the preliminaries and entered the final with the original one-arm big loop of uneven bars in the Athens Olympics, the International Sports Federation banned this action the next day.
In the team competition, Liu Xuan dropped the bar directly in the uneven bars competition, which he is best at, resulting in the Chinese team not winning a medal in the team competition.
After the Atlanta Olympics, Liu Xuan thought about retiring, but at this time, the Hunan team hoped that she could hold on for another year and represent the Hunan team in the 1997 National Games.
At the same time, due to the retirement of Mo Huilan, the captain of the national team gymnastics team, Liu Xuan was appointed as the new captain of the national gymnastics team, and the burden on her body was heavier.
The greater the pressure and the fact that Liu Xuan's age is gradually getting older, he does not have an advantage among gymnasts, so in 1999, Liu Xuan once again had the idea of retiring.
In the end, under the persuasion of her coach and parents, she chose to continue to persist for another year.
In 2000, when Liu Xuan was selected for the Chinese women's gymnastics Olympic list at the age of 21, many people questioned why they wanted to let such an old athlete participate in the Olympics.
But Liu Xuan won the championship in the balance beam final of the Sydney Olympics with a score of 9.825, conquering the referee and slapping those who doubted it.
In 2001, Liu Xuan retired and entered the Department of Journalism of Peking University, where Liu Xuan's planned coaches, referees, and sports reporters could be used.
But who knew that because of her beautiful appearance, a director came to her door in the year she retired and invited her to star in a TV series, so Liu Xuan entered the showbiz.
She has starred in film and television dramas such as "My Beautiful Homesickness" and "Women's Boxing", and won the Bronze Award for the Most Popular Actress at the Golden Rooster Award just after her debut.
The above are the four stars who have turned from athletes to actors, and everyone also knows that actor who was born as an athlete, welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss!