# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/winston-chao
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:25:41.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/winston-chao"
name: "Winston Chao"
slug: "winston-chao"
description: "Winston Chao Wen-hsuan is a Taiwanese actor, film director, and voice artist. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose (1994), which was screened at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival, and Eat Drink Man Woman, and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997), Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011). His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace of Desire, the biographical mini-series The Legend of Eileen Chang (2004), the historical drama Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel Cold Nights, and the portrayal of Confucius (2011). He acted in the Indian Tamil film, Kabali (2016), in a villainous role opposite Rajinikanth. He has also appeared in the English-language films Skiptrace (2016) and The Meg (2018)."
tagline: "Taiwanese actor (born 1960)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/c5LTdq5lsDzIxfu2a6a4jZQe3nK.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.43
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.974292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152061/"
    handle:    "nm0152061"
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    title: "Winston Chao"
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    title: "Winston Chao"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump