Li Xian

Li Xian (; born 19 October 1991) is a Chinese actor. He began his acting career by playing minor role in the film Feng Shui (2012). His first major role came as a red fox in the adventure fantasy film Soul Snatcher (2020). Xian had his small-screen debut in the web series City of Fantasy (2014). His breakthrough role came in the esports drama, Go Go Squid! (2019). Xian appeared in Forbes Asia 100 Digital Stars list and Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2020. Early life Li Xian was born on October 19, 1991, in Xianning and grew up in Jingzhou, Hubei. Xian was educated at the Jingzhou Middle School in Jingzhou. In 2009, he planned to study STEM in college, but he failed the annual college entrance examination. So he retook the test and was enrolled in acting major at Beijing Film Academy in 2010. For the convenience of entry, Xian changed his Chinese name from "晛" to "现", which means "present". Career 2011–2018: Career beginnings and breakthrough Xian began his acting career with a minor role in the director Wang Jing's film Feng Shui (2012) as a young Li Xaoli. He followed it with a role in the romantic teen film Singing When We're Young (2012). He made his small-screen debut in the first China's urban web series City of Fantasy (2014), in which he played a depressed young widower who rely on drugs to continue to live after his wife passed away named A Liang. Xian then appeared in the coming-of-age brotherhood web series, Who Sleeps My Bro (2016) as a troubled university student named Xie Xun. These part led him to being cast in the feature film adapted from the web series. He followed it with an appearance in the music video for the song I Am Jiang Xiaobai by Zhang Qi and the music video for the song Medals by Lu Han. Later, Xian was cast in the esports romance film Love O2O (2016), playing an online game developer team named Yu Banshan. In the same year, he was cast in hisfirst Chinese forensic web series Medical Examiner Dr. Qin as one of the investigative team criminal police captain, Lin Tao.