# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ying-ruocheng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:23:09.192Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ying-ruocheng"
name: "Ying Ruocheng"
slug: "ying-ruocheng"
description: "Ying Ruocheng was a Chinese actor, director, playwright and vice minister of culture from 1986 to 1990. He first came to the attention of Western audiences for his portrayal of Kublai Khan in the 1982 miniseries Marco Polo. He is best known for playing the part of the governor of the detention camp in the Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor, and the role of the Tibetan Buddhist Lama Norbu in Little Buddha. He also worked as a theater translator, director, and actor for the Beijing People's Art Theatre, particularly for his role as Pockmark Liu in Lao She's Teahouse and as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in 1983, directed by Arthur Miller."
tagline: "Chinese actor, translator (1929-2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Ying_Ruocheng.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1929-06-21"
deathDate: "2003-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.523336
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0948078/"
    handle:    "nm0948078"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%B1%E8%8B%A5%E8%AF%9A"
    title: "英若诚"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ياينج روتشينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Ruocheng"
    title: "Ying Ruocheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Ruocheng"
    title: "Ying Ruocheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%86%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "روچنگ اینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Ruocheng"
    title: "Ying Ruocheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%B1%E8%8B%A5%E8%AA%A0"
    title: "英若誠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%89%EB%A4%84%EC%B2%AD"
    title: "잉뤄청"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Ruocheng"
    title: "Ying Ruocheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Ruocheng"
    title: "Ying Ruocheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11394"
    title: "Ruocheng Ying"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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