# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhao-tao
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:24:44.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhao-tao"
name: "Zhao Tao"
slug: "zhao-tao"
description: "Zhao Tao is a Chinese actress. She works in China and occasionally Europe, and has appeared in 10 films and several shorts since starting her career in 1999. She is best known for her collaborations with her husband, director Jia Zhangke, including Platform (2000) and Still Life (2006). With Shun Li and the Poet (2011), she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at David di Donatello. She received two Golden Horse Award nominations for Mountains May Depart (2015) and Ash Is Purest White (2018). In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #8 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century."
tagline: "Chinese actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zhao_Tao_as_Member_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_(53348116601)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.97538666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955504/"
    handle:    "nm0955504"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%B5%E6%B6%9B_(%E6%BC%94%E5%91%98)"
    title: "赵涛 (演员)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BE_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BE"
    title: "Чжао Тао"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "زاو تاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "زاو تاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88"
    title: "ژائو تائو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B6%99%E6%BF%A4"
    title: "趙濤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%90%EC%98%A4%ED%83%80%EC%98%A4"
    title: "자오타오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zh%C3%A0o_T%C4%81o"
    title: "Zhào Tāo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BE_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BE"
    title: "Чжао Тао"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Tao"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82680"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24044"
    title: "Zhao Tao"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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