Lü Yulai

Acting · Directing

Born April 8, 1982, Longchang, Sichuan Province, China

Actor, director and showrunner from Mainland China. Lu Yulai was born on April 8, 1982 in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Department of Drama and Literature at the Central Academy of Drama, and graduated from the Department of Directing, Beijing Film Academy. During student years Lu starred in the film debut "Peacock" and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Chinese Media Film Awards. In 2006 he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor in the 7th Chinese Film Media Awards with his starring movie " The Courthouse on Horseback". In 2009 Lu was awarded the 4th Chinese Forum Emerging Actor and Best Actor in Madrid Film Festival for starring in the movie "Soundless Wind Chimes". In 2010, he won the best TV movie actor in the 17th Beijing University Student Film Festival with the movie "Summer Without Cicadas". In 2012 Lu Yulai appeared in the historical film "The Last Supper".

Filmography

• 2025Fire on the Plain — Sun Tianbo
• I Know I Love You — Director, Writer
• 2022The Darker the Lake — Ming
• 2021Break Through the Darkness — Director, Screenplay
• A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower — Xie Baoluo
• 2020Complicity — Chen Liang
• Missing Persons — 陈建
• 2019Begin, Again
• 2019Life of Zhang Chu — Director
• 2018Blue Amber — Āfēng
• 2018Iceman: The Time Traveler — Patriot
• 2017Inside: A Chinese Horror Story — Cui Kai
• 2017Signature
• 2017大漠青春 — 田英普
• 2016Thailand's Love
• 2015Tales of Mystery — Tang Wei (segment 2)
• 2015The Road
• 2015Tomb Mystery — Gu Ye
• 2014Boss I Love You!
• 2014Forever Young
• 2014Who Is Undercover — Xiao Xiao
• 2013A Poet in Exile — Gu Cheng (voice)
• 2013Trap Street — Li Qiuming
• 2012Beijing Flickers — Wang Ming
• Refresh 3+7 — 杨光
• 2012The Last Supper — Zi Ying
• 2011Here, There
• 2011Ten Years from Now — Wu Yao Song
• 201011度青春之夕花朝拾 — 王凯
• 2010At That Summer — 谈阳
• 2010Merry-Go-Round — Young Lam San
• 2009No Matter What — Du Lei
• 2009Soundless Wind Chime — Ricky
• 2009匆匆 — Director
• 2008Knitting — Chen Jin
• 2008Shanghai Trance
• 2007The Red Awn
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film")
• 2006Courthouse on Horseback — 阿洛
• 2005Peacock — Di Di
• Mission for the Brave — Director
• The Elephant Queen — Director
• 红色密码 — Director