Tao Hong

Acting

Tao Hong

Born 1972-01-15 · Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China

Tao Hong, born on January 15, 1972, in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, is a talented Chinese actress and former synchronized swimmer. Before her acting career, she was a champion in synchronized swimming, representing China in various international competitions, including the 1991 World Aquatics Championships. Tao transitioned to acting in the 1990s and quickly gained recognition for her performances. She has starred in acclaimed films such as Colors of the Blind (1997), which earned her multiple awards, and Forgetting to Know You (2013). On television, she is well-known for her roles in series like Sunny Piggy (2000) and The Red (2014). Internationally, she appeared in the Academy Award-winning film The Red Violin (1998). Tao Hong is also married to actor and director Xu Zheng, and the couple has collaborated on several projects.

Acting credits

The Red Violin poster
7.3

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.

The Red Violin

1998

My People, My Country poster
6.6

Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.

My People, My Country

2019

In the Heat of the Sun poster
7.8

Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals with free rein over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."

In the Heat of the Sun

1994

Cloudy Mountain poster
7.1

The opening of the new tunnel, which took ten years to build, coincided with a series of serious cataclysms. The lives of 160,000 people depend on the actions of two people, a father and a son.

Cloudy Mountain

2021

Lost in Thailand poster
6.4

The story of two rival business managers, Xu and Bo, who are fighting over a revolutionary new in-house technology for control of their company. If Xu wins, his future will be secured.

Lost in Thailand

2012

No Man's Land poster
7.0

Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.

No Man's Land

2013

Guns and Roses poster
6.3

The film tells the story of a group of Chinese youths who robbed a bank of the “Manchuguo”, a puppet regime formed in China’s northeastern provinces by Japanese invaders in the 1930s and ’40s.

Guns and Roses

2012

Lost in Hong Kong poster
5.7

When Xu Lai goes on vacation with his wife and extended family, he gets a chance to meet his former lover. However, his brother-in-law foils his plans and he becomes a suspect in a murder case.

Lost in Hong Kong

2015

My Beauty Boss poster
3.2

A man’s life is turned upside down when he discovers the mysterious woman he’s dating and his new boss are the same person, forcing him to uncover the truth behind her double life.

My Beauty Boss

2010

How Long Will I Love U poster
6.6

Gu Xiaojiao, a young girl from 2018 and Lu Ming, a man from 1999, discover that they have both woken up in the same bed at the same space-time. More surprisingly, they realize that they can time travel by exiting the bedroom door. The fun begins when they start to plan a number of changes within these two eras. However, they do not know that their destiny is in the hands of a mysterious person.

How Long Will I Love U

2018

My Country, My Parents poster
6.0

This anthology drama presents four short films honoring Chinese families, spotlighting the struggles of key groups across four pivotal eras: the revolution, construction, reform and opening up, and the new era, while highlighting their perseverance, dedication to ideals, and commitment to passing on the national spirit through generations.

My Country, My Parents

2021

Aspirin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aspirin

2006

Adoring poster
7.3

This movie tells 6 stories of how people interact with their pets to find love.

Adoring

2019

The Victims poster
5.7

Ten years ago, on a summer night, police officer Yuan Wenshan received a robbery and murder case. During the gradually deepening investigation process, the suspects present that night emerged one by one. However, the truth of the case was far from simple on the surface. Three cases went hand in hand, and a conflict of interests and righteousness intensified. What were the people involved in it? Is it a struggle between emotions and laws, or is it driven by desire? At a moment when the case had a slight appearance, Yuan Wenshan discovered an important clue that he had overlooked.

The Victims

2024

极度险情 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

极度险情

2002

Fortune King Is Coming to Town! poster
3.8

"Here Comes Fortune" is about the God of Fortune coming down from heaven to spread some love and wealth to humans in need. The movie is developed by talking about stories which took place in three cities: Shenyang, where a kind-hearted teacher is willing to give up a billion dollars in order to save her adopted daughter; Shanghai, a love story about 533, a female God of Fortune falling in love with a blind pianist; and Beijing where an ugly duckling story of Xu Jie, the boring introverted office lady.

Fortune King Is Coming to Town!

2010

Sky of Love poster
7.3

Xiao Jia, a university student, secretly admires her class monitor, Wen Tao. In a twist of an event, Xiao Jia accidentally gets hold of a radiophone. One day, as she daydreams of Wen Tao, the radiophone connects to Jia Hui and they start communicating through the radiophone. From their conversations, they discover that they are actually studying in the same school and plan to meet up, but both of them miss the date and finally find out that they exist in two different worlds.

Sky of Love

2003

Zhu Bajie: The Spring Years poster
NR

The film tells the fantasy love story of Zhu Bajie and Xiaolongnu when they met each other on an adventure journey, and finally worked together to defeat the cat demon and protect the people of Chunshui Town

Zhu Bajie: The Spring Years

2021

Mr. Nian poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Mr. Nian

2016

People Mountain People Sea poster
5.1

A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.

People Mountain People Sea

2012

You Deserve To Be Single poster
6.0

Li Zheng and Li Ying are two brothers the owners of a dating agency called "True Love Club". The business is going very well, but everything changed when Xiao Feng is passed by a sweet love, who is interested in the agency to prove the relationship with their supposed "future wife", the beautiful psychiatrist Fei. What they do not know is that this regular case ends up in an unexpected and fun mess.

You Deserve To Be Single

2010

No Lonely Angels poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

No Lonely Angels

2002

Bright Heart poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bright Heart

2001

Unfinished Girl poster
7.0

He Wei and Xiao Feng are a perfect couple. Xiao Feng has a younger sister, Xiao Ke, who needs regular life-sustaining medicine. One day, Xiao Ke accidentally discovers that the man who murdered her parents is her sister's husband, He Wei. Xiao Feng becomes pregnant and when she has to leave town on business, Xiao Ke invites He Wei back to her home.

Unfinished Girl

2007

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