Zhang Yi

Zhang Yi (; born 17 February 1978 in Harbin) is a Chinese actor best known for his roles in films Dearest, Cock and Bull and Operation Red Sea and television series Soldiers Sortie, My Chief and My Regiment and Feather Flies to the Sky. Biography Zhang has always wanted to become a television announcer, yet was unsuccessful in his attempts to attend the Beijing Broadcasting Institute for various reasons. In 1996, he was admitted to the Harbin Drama Theater at his own expense. In 1997, he applied for People's Liberation Army National Defence University、The Central Academy of Drama, and Shanghai Theatre Academy, but was not admitted. In the same year, he was admitted to the comrades-in-arms drama troupe of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region. Career Zhang made his drama debut and received widespread recognition as Comrade Shi Jin in the critically and commercially successful 2006 drama Soldiers Sortie, and continued to collaborate with writer Lan Xiaolong in upcoming military war dramas My Chief and My Regiment and The Line, which were both critical hits, scoring 8.9 and 9.2 on Douban respectively. Zhang was widely praised for his acting as a father desperate to find his abducted son in 2014 feature film Dearest, and received his first major acting award at the 30th Golden Rooster Awards. In 2016, he played a secret police who was willing to fight for a better world in wuxia film Brotherhood of Blades II, and also starred in Cao Baoping's black comedy Cock and Bull, which garnered him another Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 31st Golden Rooster Awards.