Yu Xiaoguang

Yu Xiaoguang
Yu Xiaoguang
于晓光
	Yu Xiaoguang
Born	Yu Liguang (于立桄); May 16, 1981 (age 43); Dandong, Liaoning, China
Alma mater	Central Academy of Drama; Lee Wei Song School of Music; Wuhan Sports University
Occupation(s)	Actor, composer
Years active	1995–present
Agent(s)	Beijing Fengchi Huameng Film and Television Media Co., Ltd BH Entertainment
Spouse	Choo Ja-hyun (m. 2017)
Children	1
	Musical career
Genres	Mandopop
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	于曉光
Simplified Chinese	于晓光
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yú Xiǎoguāng

Yu Xiaoguang (Chinese: 于晓光; born 16 May 1981), also known as Ethan Yu, is a Chinese composer and actor. Yu is a former swimmer and sprint canoer. In 2006 he made a crossover from sports to films. Yu made appearances on many television series, most notably My Kung Fu Girlfriend (2006), Fighting in Peking (2009), Mao Anying (2010), The Happy Time of the Spicy and Hot Girlfriend (2012), City and Country Life (2014), and Namchow Mechanic Heroes (2015).

Early life and education

Yu was born in Dandong, Liaoning, on May 16, 1981. At the age of 7, he entered a sports school to learn to swim and later became a member of the Liaoning swimming team. In the National Youth Swimming Championships, he won the championship two years (1995 and 1996) in succession. In 1997, he started to learn to canoeing and won the championship in the National Canoeing Championships.^[1] After his early retirement, he was accepted to Central Academy of Drama, where he majored in acting. In 2002, he pursued advanced studies in Singapore, he studied music under Lee Wei Song.

Career

Yu had his first experience in front of the camera in 2006, and he was chosen to act as a lead role in My Kung Fu Girlfriend, a comedy television series starring Wang Yang and Ma Su.^[2]

In 2007, Yu made his film debut in Crazy in Love, playing Brother Xi. That same year, he co-starred with Yao Chen and Zhang Jiayi in the historical television series Past Events.

In 2008, he appeared in the Game of Life and Death, I'm the Sun and Sailfish Qi yu.

In 2009, Yu portrayed Feng Mu [zh], a writer and critic, in the war television series Fighting in Peking.

Yu portrayed Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, in the 2010 biographical drama Mao Anying.^[3] That same year, he had key supporting role in Mother, which starred Siqin Gaowa and Song Chunli.^[4]

In 2011, two films and one television series he headlined, Wu Yunduo, Beginning of the Great Revival and A Cheng. He played Wu Yunduo, a Chinese ordnance expert during the Second Sino-Japanese War, in the biographical drama Wu Yunduo. He portrayed Liu Shaoqi in China Film Group and DMG Entertainment's production of Huang Jianxin and Han Sanping's Beginning of the Great Revival, alongside Liu Ye, Chen Kun, Li Qin, Huang Jue, and Liao Fan.^[5]

Yu starred in the romantic comedy television series The Happy Time of the Spicy and Hot Girlfriend, playing the boyfriend of Choo Ja-hyun's character.^[6]

In 2014, Yu portrayed Deng Zhifang, son of Deng Xiaoping, in Deng Xiaoping at History's Crossroads, created by CCTV and directed by Wu Ziniu. The drama received positive reviews and high ratings.^[7] That same year, he starred as Man Cang, reuniting him with co-star Che Xiao, who played his girlfriend Jing Mei, in the romantic television series City and Country Life. The series was one of the most watched ones in mainland China in that month.^[8]

Yu starred opposite Yu Rongguang, Choo Ja-hyun and Zhu Xiaoyu in 2015 television series Namchow Mechanic Heroes.

In 2017, Yu guest-starred on Billy Chung's Eternal Wave, an action film starring Aaron Kwok, Zanilia Zhao, Zoe Zhang, Zhang Han, and Simon Yam. That same year, he was cast in Hero, playing the son of Siqin Gaowa's and Gao Ming's characters.^[9]

Personal life

Yu married Korean actress Choo Ja-hyun on January 18, 2017.^[10]^[11] They first met while appearing in a Chinese drama The Happy Time of the Spicy and Hot Girlfriend in 2012.

On June 1, 2018, Yu's wife Chu Ja-hyun gave birth to a boy at a hospital in Seoul, South Korea.^[12]^[13]

Filmography

Film

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role
2007	Crazy in Love	意乱情迷	Brother Xi
2008	Sailfish Qi yu	旗鱼	Gao Ming
2011	Wu Yunduo	吴运铎	Wu Yunduo
2011	Beginning of the Great Revival	建党伟业	Liu Shaoqi
2017	Eternal Wave	密战	Big Cat

TV series

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role	Notes
2006	My Kung Fu Girlfriend	我的功夫女友	Du Runnan
2007	Past Events	百年往事	Zhang Xiaolu
2008	Game of Life and Death	生死博弈	Xiao Ke
2008	I'm the Sun	我是太阳	Shao Yue
2009	Fighting in Peking	狼烟北平	Feng Mu
2009	See A-Lang Again	又见阿郎	Zheng Guyi
2010	Sword Without Front	利剑无锋	Shen Hao
	Mao Anying	毛岸英	Mao Anying
	Mother	娘	Man Cang
2011	A Cheng	阿诚	Jiang Haisheng
2012	The Happy Time of the Spicy and Hot Girlfriend	麻辣女友的幸福时光	Luo Yin
	—	鹰巢之预备警官	Jin Rui
	—	一门三司令	Yang Tianhong
2014	Deng Xiaoping at History's Crossroads	历史转折中的邓小平	Deng Zhifang
	City and Country Life	满仓进城	Man Cang
	Moving Muzzle	移动的枪口	Lu Tianhong
2015	Beautiful Village Girl	美丽村姑	Ding Zhun
	Namchow Mechanic Heroes	南侨机工英雄传	Fang Tianhai
	Storm over Ordos	鄂尔多斯风暴	Ta La
2016	Ultimate Mission	终极使命	Gao Han
2017	Soma Flowers	索玛花开	Mu Xia
	Hero	英雄烈	Liang Tianci
	Her	咱家	Guo Hu
	The Dream is Getting Closer	梦想越走越近	Zhao Jiaping
	The Wolf Warriors	百战天狼	Ma Gaitian
2018	About Time	想停止的瞬間: About Time	Zhang Qiang	^[14]

Drama

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role	Notes
2013	Mao Zedong and His Elder Son	毛泽东和他的长子	Mao Anying

Music video appearances

Year	English title	Chinese title	Singer
2003	Hope	希望
2005	When You Want to Know Who Alone	孤独时候你想谁呢	Yaya Meng
2006	Message Board	留言信箱	Huang Yue

Variety show

Year	English title	Original title	Television	Notes
1 December 2010	Art Life	艺术人生	CCTV-3
6 August 2011	China Feelings	中华情	CCTV-4
1 September 2011	Avenue of Stars	星光大道	CCTV-1
25 February 2012	The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: Happy New Year	八仙过海闹新春	CCTV-8
9 August 2012	Best Live	最佳现场	BTV
22 November 2012	Fashionable Tourism	时尚旅游	Qinghai Television
1 May 2013	Thank God You are Coming	谢天谢地你来啦	CCTV-1
20 November 2013	The Most Unusual National Opera Fan	最炫国剧风	Shandong Television
16 December 2013	I Love My Family	我爱我家	BTV
1 September 2014	Film and Television Drama	影视风云	BTV
14 February 2015	A Letter to Home	一封家书	Shandong Television
12 March 2016	Family and Children	家游好儿女	Shandong Television
26 March 2017	Super Sound Wave	超强音浪	Shandong Television
10 July 2017	Same Bed, Different Dreams 2: You Are My Destiny	동상이몽 2 – 너는 내 운명	SBS	^[15]

Music (as composer)

Year	English title	Chinese title	Singer	Notes
2006	I Find Happiness That Year	找到幸褔那年	Tarcy Su
	Love is Never Wrong	爱一个人没错	Sun Ho
	7-27	7-27	Maggie Teng
2007	The Plight We Made	我们说好的	Jane Zhang	with Lee Wei Song.
	Secret Love	暗恋	Huang Xiaoming
	Scorpio Lover	天蝎情人	Huang Xiaoming
2008	Out of Tune	走音	Wong Jinglun
2008	Experimenting	试验品	Stephen Fung
2009	Blue Sky	天空蓝	Pace Wu
2009	Ban	伴	Tiger Huang
2011	Occasionally Ordinary	偶尔平凡	Hacken Lee	with Lee Wei Song.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Notes
2017	SBS Entertainment Awards	Hot Star of the Year	Same Bed, Different Dreams 2: You Are My Destiny	Won	with Choo Ja-hyun

References

^ 于晓光拍戏间隙回母校重温皮划艇艰苦快乐时光. Sohu (in Chinese). 2011-07-22.
^ 《我的功夫女友》热播于晓光早期青涩造型曝光. 163.com (in Chinese). 2009-09-01.
^ 《毛岸英》央视热播男一号于晓光走红(图). 163.com (in Chinese). 2010-10-26.
^ 电视剧《娘》于晓光苦用功与斯琴高娃结母子缘. Sohu (in Chinese). 2009-05-25.
^ 于晓光《建党伟业》再次饰演刘少奇. sina (in Chinese). 2011-04-01.
^ 《麻辣女友》高潮迭起于晓光荧幕初吻献秋瓷炫. Tencent (in Chinese). 2012-06-07.
^ 《邓小平》热播张嘉译零片酬于晓光学演技. Sohu (in Chinese). 2014-08-14.
^ 于晓光主演《满仓进城》收视夺冠. 163.com (in Chinese). 2014-12-09.
^ 于晓光领衔《英雄烈》潮服引领“谍战剧”时尚. 163.com (in Chinese). 2016-10-19.
^ K. Lee (2017-08-22). "Chu Ja Hyun and Yu Xiaoguang Are The Hottest New Couple On TV". soompi.com.
^ K. Lee (2018-03-19). "Chu Ja Hyun And Yu Xiaoguang To Leave "Same Bed Different Dreams 2"". soompi.com.
^ L. Kim (1 June 2018). "Chu Ja Hyun and Yu Xiaoguang are now parents!". soompi.com. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
^ "Actor couple Choo Ja-hyun, Yu Xiaoguang have first baby". koreaherald.com. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
^ '어바웃타임' 이상윤X우효광, 한-중 사업가의 포스 넘치는 미팅 현장 공개. Tenasia (in Korean). Tenasia. May 19, 2018.
^ "'You Are My Destiny' with Choo Ja-hyun and Yu Xiaoguang Is Gaining International Popularity". popkorea.com. 2017-07-24.

External links

[1] 于晓光拍戏间隙回母校重温皮划艇艰苦快乐时光. Sohu (in Chinese). 2011-07-22.

[2] 《我的功夫女友》热播于晓光早期青涩造型曝光. 163.com (in Chinese). 2009-09-01.

[3] 《毛岸英》央视热播男一号于晓光走红(图). 163.com (in Chinese). 2010-10-26.

[4] 电视剧《娘》于晓光苦用功与斯琴高娃结母子缘. Sohu (in Chinese). 2009-05-25.

[5] 于晓光《建党伟业》再次饰演刘少奇. sina (in Chinese). 2011-04-01.

[6] 《麻辣女友》高潮迭起于晓光荧幕初吻献秋瓷炫. Tencent (in Chinese). 2012-06-07.

[7] 《邓小平》热播张嘉译零片酬于晓光学演技. Sohu (in Chinese). 2014-08-14.

[8] 于晓光主演《满仓进城》收视夺冠. 163.com (in Chinese). 2014-12-09.

[9] 于晓光领衔《英雄烈》潮服引领“谍战剧”时尚. 163.com (in Chinese). 2016-10-19.

[10] K. Lee (2017-08-22). "Chu Ja Hyun and Yu Xiaoguang Are The Hottest New Couple On TV". soompi.com.

[11] K. Lee (2018-03-19). "Chu Ja Hyun And Yu Xiaoguang To Leave "Same Bed Different Dreams 2"". soompi.com.

[12] L. Kim (1 June 2018). "Chu Ja Hyun and Yu Xiaoguang are now parents!". soompi.com. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

[13] "Actor couple Choo Ja-hyun, Yu Xiaoguang have first baby". koreaherald.com. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

[14] '어바웃타임' 이상윤X우효광, 한-중 사업가의 포스 넘치는 미팅 현장 공개. Tenasia (in Korean). Tenasia. May 19, 2018.

[15] "'You Are My Destiny' with Choo Ja-hyun and Yu Xiaoguang Is Gaining International Popularity". popkorea.com. 2017-07-24.

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