Career
Ge You's father, Ge Cunzhuang, came from an older generation of film actors. Since the 1950s, he has played a large number of characters, largely villains. His iconic works include ''Little Soldier Zhang Ga'', ''Red Flag Composition'', ''Daqing Artillery Team'' and so on. He also had a great influence on the improvement of Ge You's performance. Ge You's mother Shi Wenxin was a script editor at the Beijing Film Studio, He Cong, his wife, is an art teacher at Fuwai No. 2 Primary School, and his younger sister Ge Jia is also an editor of the North Film Pictorial. Overall, a filmic family. After graduating from middle school, Ge You went to the suburbs of Beijing to farm pigs. At the age of 25, he joined the Art Troupe of the National Federation of Trade Unions and became a drama actor. In 1984, Ge You played a small role in ''Sheng Xia and His Fiancee''. In 1988, Ge You participated in the film ''The Troubleshooters'' adapted from Wang Shuo's novel ''The Troubleshooters'', and was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for this film. In 1992, he participated in the TV series comedy ''Stories From The Editorial Board'' launched by Beijing TV. In the 10 years since then, Ge You played more than 20 different figures. The most successful one of these is the film '' To Live'' directed by Zhang Yimou in 1993 and adapted from the novel '' To Live'' by Yu Hua. In the film, Ge You plays the "Fugui" from youth to old age, vividly showing a minor character who has tasted the enjoyment and suffering of the world to the audience, and also brought his acting skills to the fullest. Thus he was the first Chinese man to win the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 . In addition, in ''Steel Meets Fire'' (director He Qun, 1991), he played the puppet army captain, full of human warmth and strength of character, jumping out of the traditional villain constraints. After that, he played the lustful and sanctimonious older brother-in-law in Huang Jianzhong's ''Filmography
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ge, You 1957 births Male actors from Beijing Living people Chinese male film actors Chinese male television actors 20th-century Chinese male actors 21st-century Chinese male actors Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners