Winston Chao
Acting
Born June 9, 1960, Taiwan
Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. 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 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 (Han ye, 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Winston Chao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- Bloody Smart
- 2026活色生香
- 江南·十二场欢聚
- 2024Daughter's Daughter — Old Johnny
- Lost in Baimu — Lin Yong
- 廉石传说
- 2021Be Somebody
- 2021I Dreamed A Dream
- Palace of Devotion — Zhao Ting Mei
- Dear Designer
- Everybody Stand By
- 2019Pegasus — Wan Heping
- Lost in 1949 — Qiao Mogeng
- 2018Piano Lesson — A.I.
- 2018The Meg — Zhang
- 2018金牌律师之生死劫 — Ye Xun
- 2018钢琴课
- The Legend of Kaifeng — 宋真宗
- 2016Chinese Wine — 华老板
- 2016Kabali — Tony Lee
- 2016Skiptrace — Victor Wong
- 2016Xuan Zang — Emperor Taizong of Tang
- Da Shun — 唐尧
- Legend of Mi Yue — Mi Shang / King Wei of Chu
- Lonely Gourmet: Taipei — Wu Lang
- 2015Surprise — Murong Hao
- 2015Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal — Zhang Daoxian
- 2015情战
- The Last Emperor
- 往日情怀 — Ichiro Miura
- Legend of SouthWest Dance and Music — 异牟寻
- Return of the Heiress — Pan Weisen
- 2013The Palace — Kangxi Emperor
- 2012Great Rescue
- Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties — Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui
- Solitary Gourmet — 伍郎
- Stand By Me
- 20111911 — Sun Yat-sen
- Defend Army Soul
- The Legend of Wu Zetian — Li Zhi (Middle-aged)
- Tian Xing Jian — Zhou Zixuan
- Confucius
- 潇湘路一号
- Archrivals — 文为均
- Cold Nights — Wang Wen Xuan
- 大国医
- Archrivals — 文为均
- 2007Road to Dawn
- Tang Paradise — 李隆基
- 大爆炸
- 2005Those were the Days — Hu Weichen
- Harmony — 王鸿图
- 国宝
- 2002The Touch — Yin's Father
- 钱王
- 孙中山 — 孙中山
- Palace of Desire — 薛绍/张易之
- 家园 — 林怀中
- 1998A Little Life-Opera — Sanpeng
- 1998Burning Harbor — Sato
- 1997Destination: 9th Heaven — Chin Ching
- 1997Intimates — Wah
- 1997Island of Greed — Minister Feng
- 1997The Soong Sisters — Sun Yat Sen
- 千秋家国梦 — 许拜庭/许崇智
- 1996In a Strange City
- Lei Yu
- 1996Thunder Cop
- 1996Tonight Nobody Goes Home — Chen Siming
- 1995Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- 1995I Want to Go on Living
- 1995Xiu Xiu — Li Zhao
- 1994Eat Drink Man Woman — Li Kai
- 1994In Between — Wong Man Fai
- 1994Red Rose White Rose — Tung Zhenbao
- 1993The Wedding Banquet — Gao Wai-Tung
- 1993Top Cool
- The Legend of Nezha — Master Tai Yi