# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ouyang-yuqian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:42:03.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ouyang-yuqian"
name: "Ouyang Yuqian"
slug: "ouyang-yuqian"
description: "Ouyang Yuqian was a Chinese playwright, Peking opera actor and writer, film screenwriter and director, and drama educator. He is considered by drama historians as one of the three founders of the modern Chinese spoken drama, together with Tian Han and Hong Shen. He was also one of the top Peking opera performers, regarded as a southern counterpart of Mei Lanfang."
tagline: "Chinese playwright, film director and actor (1889-1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ouyang_Yuqian6.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1889-05-12"
deathDate: "1962-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.38
  momentum:             10.17635299157504
  historical:           8.093522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  204
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1924436/"
    handle:    "nm1924436"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AC%A7%E9%98%B3%E4%BA%88%E5%80%A9"
    title: "欧阳予倩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اويانج يوكيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouyang_Yuqian"
    title: "Ouyang Yuqian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouyang_Yuqian"
    title: "Ouyang Yuqian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouyang_Yuqian"
    title: "Ouyang Yuqian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouyang_Yuqian"
    title: "Ouyang Yuqian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AC%A7%E9%99%BD%E4%BA%88%E5%80%A9"
    title: "欧陽予倩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%96%B4%EC%9A%B0%EC%96%91%EC%9C%84%EC%B2%B8"
    title: "어우양위첸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2169354"
    title: "Ouyang Yuqian"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump