In 1999, 20-year-old Yin Tao was admitted to the Drama Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts with the best results in the country with the love and dream of acting. The young Yin Tao's eyes flashed with a vision for the future, and she firmly believed that she would eventually shine on this stage.
Three years later, in 2002, Yin Tao, who was about to graduate from school, ushered in the first important turning point in her life. After repeated selections, she successfully won the role of Bai Xuemei, the heroine of the graduation drama "I'm Waiting for You in Heaven".
With her pure and agile temperament and superb performance skills, Yin Tao has won many major awards in the theater industry in one fell swoop.
These include the Golden Lion Award, the highest academic award in the Chinese drama industry, the Cao Yu Script Award at the 8th Chinese Theatre Awards, the Performance Award at the 12th Wenhua Theatre Awards, and the 15th Shanghai Magnolia Theatre Awards.
However, the journey to stardom has not been easy. In 2003, on the filming site of "The Sky of History", Yin Tao suffered a major setback in her career. She faced the old drama bones Li Xuefeng and Zhang Fengyi, and suddenly found that she couldn't catch the drama of her predecessors, and repeated a line more than 20 times.
Zhang Fengyi even said bluntly at the scene: "Child, you have to speak human words" What made Yin Tao even more sad was that she heard Zhang Fengyi say: "I have cooperated with your military art many times, and none of them did not disappoint me!" "
This blow did not crush Yin Tao, but stimulated her stronger desire to learn. Since then, Yin Tao has developed a habit: even if his role is filmed, he will not leave the set.
She often moved a small bench to sit aside, carefully observed the performance skills of her predecessors, and studied this perseverance and tenacity with her heart, which laid a solid foundation for her future success.
As the old drama bone Li Xuejian said: "This girl has a good life." Yin Tao's experience tells us that the so-called good life is actually the perfect combination of hard work and opportunity. Her success stems not only from her talent, but also from her love and relentless pursuit of the performing arts.
Through unremitting efforts, Yin Tao's acting skills have become more and more sophisticated, and every role she portrays is lifelike and impressive. In "The Secret History of Yang Guifei", she played Yang Yuhuan, who captivated the country and the city, showing the elegance of a generation of beauties.
In "Yan'an Love", she incarnated as Su Zhen, a progressive young woman, vividly interpreting the blood and ideals of young people in the revolutionary era In "Wenzhou Family", she played Zhou Ali who walked the world for love, showing the tenacious and soft side of women, and in "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", Yin Tao transformed into Luo Yuzhu, a talented woman in the business world who experienced hardships, and portrayed a female image who rose up in adversity.
Yin Tao is a girl with a thousand faces with cunning acting skills, and she is able to switch between different roles with ease, showing deep acting strength. Her in-depth understanding and shaping of the role has been widely recognized in the industry, and has won the love of the audience.
Yin Tao's efforts have finally been rewarded with major awards. In 2006, she won the Golden Eagle Award for her role as Ami in "The Wrong Car". This award not only recognizes her early TV drama performances, but also shows her influence in the television industry.
In 2013, her role as Zhou Ayu in "Wenzhou Family" won her the Feitian Award for Outstanding Actress, a TV series about Wenzhou people starting a business, which allowed her to demonstrate her ability to manipulate complex roles.
In 2017, her role as Luo Yuzhu in "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" won her the Magnolia Award for Best Actress, and the success of this role not only proves Yin Tao's acting strength, but also shows her deep understanding of women of the times.
So far, Yin Tao has successfully completed the post-TV grand slam and ranks among the best actresses in China. It is worth mentioning that as of now, only five actresses have been able to accomplish this achievement in the post-TV grand slam, and Yin Tao is one of them, which is enough to prove her status and strength in the entertainment industry.
Yin Tao's love and dedication to acting is reflected in her choice of roles, she believes that actors need to have "blood, flesh, muscle, and rich roles", rather than "white lotus"-style roles, because she feels that "white lotus"-style roles are not real, and she prefers real characters.
This pursuit of truth makes each of Yin Tao's characters deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and resonates with the audience.
Not only that, Yin Tao is also very clear about his positioning. She said: "I'd rather play an eighty-year-old lady than an eighteen-year-old girl, because it takes acting skills to play an eighty-year-old, but it takes courage to play an eighteen-year-old."
At this age, I have to know what role I can't play, this is self-knowledge" This accurate perception of self has allowed Yin Tao to always maintain a high level in role selection, and has also won her the respect of the industry and the audience.
Yin Tao's major success is more about her unremitting professional attitude and artistic pursuits, rather than relying solely on talent. She has successfully proved that she is an excellent actor, and also shows the professional attitude and artistic pursuit that an actor should have.
Yin Tao has once again attracted widespread attention from the audience for her role as Zheng Juan in the 2022 TV series "The World". This masterpiece, which spans nearly half a century, carries the memories of too many people, and her performance gives depth and layers to the role of Zheng Juan, making the character one of the most distressing and admirable characters in the play.
Zheng Juan's life has been bumpy, but she has always maintained gentleness and tenacity. Yin Tao's deep understanding and vivid interpretation of this role are amazing. "Zheng Juan is seen by many men as the perfect wife, but this is actually a misunderstanding," she said.
She behaves extremely weak in front of outsiders, but she is extremely strong and tenacious inside, she never deliberately shows her strength, but quietly shows her tenacity, she does not rely on men to live, but lives her own style" These words not only reveal the essence of Zheng Juan's character, but also seem to tell Yin Tao's own attitude towards life.
When Yin Tao created the role of Zheng Juan, she paid attention to the portrayal of details. Zheng Juan's image when she appeared for the first time was very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, she wore two braids, lowered her eyes, sat on the kang and stringed sugar gourds, and the sunlight outside the house poured on her, looking quiet and beautiful.
This picture perfectly presents the image of Zheng Juan, who is "like the woman in the villain book "Red Dream Building", although charming and delicate, her eyes are full of fear".
Yin Tao very accurately portrayed the background color of Zheng Juan's life - forbearance. She understands that Zheng Juan has been accustomed to enduring hardships since she was a child, so Zheng Juan's expression is always humble and supple. Although Zheng Juan has been abandoned since she was a girl and has experienced hardship, she rarely frowns because of this, and most of the time is gentle and silent.
What can make her mood swing more is not the hardships and difficulties of life, but when she feels happiness.
In the TV series, Zheng Juan's emotional reaction resonated strongly with the audience.
When she heard Bingkun's father question her: "Zhou Bingkun, you are so ambitious, why don't you dare to marry someone else?" Make the family wait so long! and Bingkun solemnly promised her: "Can we say to the outside world in the future that Nan Nan was born to me and Zheng Juan." Zheng Juan's emotions collapsed instantly, she felt both aggrieved and relieved, and tears flowed uncontrollably.
Yin Tao vividly expressed this complex emotion, allowing the audience to deeply feel Zheng Juan's inner turmoil.
The hit broadcast of "The World" made Yin Tao's superb acting skills highly praised by the audience and industry insiders again. A large number of viewers have said that "next year's after-viewing will be Yin Tao", which shows Yin Tao's excellent performance in this play.
This success is not only an affirmation of Yin Tao's persistence and hard work for many years, but also marks that her acting career has climbed to a new peak.
Yin Tao is always glamorous in the spotlight, but her private life is full of twists and turns. In her early years, despite the opposition of her parents, she resolutely married the rich second-generation Shen Juncheng, a marriage that she had been carefully protecting and hiding in the past, so few people knew about it.
But this relationship, which she described as a "hidden marriage", was not as happy as she expected, and this marriage only lasted for more than a year, and finally ended in failure, which brought a lot of blows to the young Yin Tao.
After the divorce, Yin Tao generously admitted this past in the show. She admitted that she was "too child's play" at the time, and this failed marriage experience made Yin Tao deeply realize her immaturity.
Although this experience was short, it had a profound impact on Yin Tao's life, making her think more deeply about relationships and marriage.
After Yin Tao's divorce, her love life once became the focus of public attention. It is rumored that she and her partner Li Guangjie fell in love because of the play, and the two played husband and wife in "Wenzhou Family", and their tacit performance caused a lot of speculation.
However, this scandal finally ended with Li Guangjie's sentence "Oh it's all over", and how the truth is always a mystery.
After Yin Tao experienced the failure of marriage and the twists and turns of feelings, her attitude towards feelings and marriage became more mature. She is no longer as anxious to get married as she was when she was younger, but is more focused on her own feelings and quality of life.
Regarding the discussion of the outside world, she confidently said: "I can marry at any time" This confidence and freedom is the precipitation after she has experienced the ups and downs of life.
It wasn't until 2020 that Yin Tao was photographed again going home hand in hand after dinner with actor Zhao Da, and the intimacy of the two showed that the relationship was stable, but Yin Tao did not deny it or make it public in a high-profile manner, but chose to deal with her feelings in a low-key manner, showing her more mature and stable attitude towards relationships.
Yin Tao's emotional experience, through the impulsiveness of her youth and her calmness now, all reflect her growth as a woman. She no longer pins all her value on marriage, but pays more attention to self-development and self-realization.
This transformation is reflected not only in her private life, but also in her career choices.
Yin Tao said in an interview: "A child's life is a life, isn't our life a life?" This sentence not only expresses the voice of Zheng Juan she played in "The World", but also can be seen as Yin Tao's own life insight.
She used her own experience to tell us that a woman's life should not be defined by marriage, but should be brave enough to pursue the life she wants.
Now Yin Tao is 42 years old, and the years seem to favor her very much. Recently, she was on the hot search because of a back photo, and netizens exclaimed: "42-year-old Yin Tao looks more like a 24-year-old than 24-year-old me." "
This is not only a compliment to her well-maintained, but also a recognition of her positive attitude towards life.
From Yin Tao's Weibo, we can see her colorful life: acting in dramas, insisting on regular fitness, traveling and surfing, etc., which shows that she manages her life very carefully, is not limited by age, and is still full of love for life and the spirit of exploration.
In the face of the pressure brought by age, Yin Tao has her own unique opinions. She once said: "The way for actresses to overcome age anxiety is very simple, that is, not to compete with the years." This is not only her attitude towards her acting career, but also her insight into life.
She chooses to embrace the changes that time brings, and in the process, she continues to improve herself.
Yin Tao's choice of roles also exposes her attitude. She said: "I'd rather play an 80-year-old lady than an 18-year-old girl, because it takes acting skills to play 80, but it takes courage to play 88."
At this age, I have to know what roles I can't play, and this self-knowledge is very important" Yin Tao's accurate understanding of herself has always maintained a high level in her career.
Yin Tao's story shows us that a woman's life should not be defined by marriage, age, or social roles. She has achieved great success in her career with her hard work and talent, and even after the failure of her marriage, she has maintained her love and positive attitude towards life.
Yin Tao uses her own behavior to interpret what is the real "open life" - that is, always maintain enthusiasm, move forward bravely, pursue your own life, not be bound by age and social expectations, and truly live your own life.