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).
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Filmography 27
A Touch of Sin
Ash Is Purest White
Mountains May Depart
Unknown Pleasures
Still Life
Platform
The World
Caught by the Tides
24 City
Shun Li and the Poet
I Wish I Knew
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang
Cry Me a River
The Hedonists
Useless
Walking on the Wild Side
Smog Journeys
Where Has Time Gone?
Our Ten Years
Black Breakfast
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Ten Thousand Waves
Revive
Remembrance
Torino Shadow31 credits on file
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LivingAwards 1
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Connected to Zhao 5
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About this person
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.
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