Huang Hong (; born May 25, 1960) is a Chinese skit and sitcom actor and writer. He is also less successful as a TV series and movie producer and director.

Career

Born in

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, he joined the

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(PLA) when he was only 13. He studied

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at Liaoning University and performance at the

People's Liberation Army Academy of Art The Military and Cultural Institute of National Defense University, People's Liberation Army (), previously the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art (, colloquially known as Junyi 军艺), is an academic institute of the PLA National Defense U ...

. Huang was a regular sketch comedy performer on the CCTV New Year's Gala, appearing on the show almost uninterruptedly for over two decades between 1989 and 2012, during which he became a household name in China. Some of his skits including '' Anti-family plan Guerrilla'', ''

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''. The director and the leading actor of films ''A Father With His 25 Children'' (2001) and ''Sunny Courtyard'' (2007). He became the head of the

August First Film Studio August First Film Studio, or Bayi Film Studio (Chinese: 八一电影制片厂; pinyin: ''Bāyī diànyǐng zhì piàn chǎng)'', is the only military film studio in China. It was founded on August 1, 1952 to film It is a comprehensive film studi ...

in 2012. In March 2015 he was removed from the position of unknown reasons, though the media speculated about his involvement in corruption. He has been linked by Chinese-language media to disgraced general Xu Caihou. However, later his return to the stage indicate that all accusations were false.

Personal life

Huang's father Huang Feng () is a ''kuaishu'' performing artist. Huang has two elder brothers. In 1986, at the age of 26, Huang got acquainted with Duan Xiaojie (), an actress in Shenyang Mass Art Center. They married on October 8, 1989. Their daughter, Huang Zhaohan (; nickname: Huang Doudou ), was born in 1994.

References

1960 births Living people Liaoning University alumni People's Liberation Army Academy of Art alumni Male actors from Heilongjiang Chinese male voice actors Chinese male film actors Chinese male television actors Members of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference {{China-actor-stub