Yang Ni Ao, better known as “Yang Zi” and also known as Andy Yang is a Chinese actress and model who was born on 6 November 1992 (age 28) in Fangshan, Beijing, China. Along with Zheng Shuang, Zhou Dongyu, and Guan Xiaotong, she is recognized as one of the “Four Dan Actresses of the post-90s Generation” by Southern Metropolis Daily. We will talk about Yang Zi’s full family name, nickname, nationality, age at birth, place of birth, height, weight, gender, occupation, agent, acting career, marital status, education, and family in this post.
Bio, education and family
On November 6, 1992, Yang Niao was born in Beijing, China’s Fangshan District. Her mother Ma Haiyan was a homemaker, while her father Yang Yunfei was a firefighter who specialized in emergency rescue and disaster relief. To support China’s successful Olympic bid, her father gave her the name Yang Niao. Her love of acting prompted her parents to take her to several auditions at a young age. At the age of six, she made her screen debut in Ru Chi Chu Shan. Yang attended Beijing No. 55 High School and Beijing Fangshan District Xingcheng Primary School. She received acceptance to the Beijing Film Academy in 2010. May 22, 2014, saw her graduate from Beijing Film Academy with a performance major.
You can read this article to learn about Yang Zi’s current partner and their relationship. As per web investigation and database recoding, she was actually in a relationship with actor Qin Jun Jie from November 2016 until August 2018. She is not married in 2023, though, and she is not dating anyone at the moment.
Career
Yang made her acting debut as Zhou Qiong in Ru Ci Chu Shan in 1999. Yang played the little Consort Donggo in the Xiaozhuang Epic in 2002. Yang starred as elementary school student Ran Dongyang in the young romantic comedy Girl’s Diary, which debuted on major motion pictures in May 2004. For her role in the movie, she was nominated for a Tongniu Film Awards Best Child Actor. Yang became well-known in 2005 when she starred as Xia Xue in the widely watched Mainland Chinese sitcom Home with Kids. When the show debuted in China, it garnered the highest ratings and was named the Best Children’s Television Series at both the Flying Apsaras and Golden Eagle Awards. Since then, Yang has gained widespread recognition in China. She portrayed young Bing Yue in the historical costume drama Young Kangxi in March. She did not appear in the following editions, although she returned to the role of Xia Xue in the 2006 sequel Home with Kids 2.
Yang’s debut solo album, Home with Snow (called after her character in Home with Kids), was released in June 2008. Yang performed the voice of Ma Xiaotiao in the 2009 comic animation series Mo’s Mischief: Teacher’s Pet, which was based on the children’s book series of the same name by Yang Hongying. Yang starred in her first major role in the youth drama Girl Rushes Forward that same year. Yang was featured in Boy’s Diary, a friendship drama, in 2010. After that, she was accepted into the Beijing Film Academy’s Performance Institute. Based on Geling Yan’s novel Stepmother, she acted in the family drama Love Comes Knocking on the Door in February 2011. She was able to successfully overcome the stigma of being a “child star” because to her role as a rebellious adolescent.
Yang played a compassionate nurse in the medical drama Angel Heart, which debuted in May 2012. She starred in the horror mystery thriller Insistence in August, which brought her the 14th Golden Phoenix Award for Best Newcomer. She also gave a performance of “The Quiet Rubble,” which is part of the official soundtrack. Yang portrayed the title character in the historical comedy-drama King Rouge in February 2013. She acted in the family drama Dad Comes Home in April. She starred in the romantic drama Flowers in Fog in August, which was written by the well-known Taiwanese author Chiung Yao.
Yang starred in her debut military drama, Battle of Changsha, which was directed by Kong Sheng, the winner of the Magnolia Award, in March 2014. The World War II Battle of Changsha, which took place in 1939, served as the background for the show. Yang portrayed Hu Xiangxiang, a field hospital nurse with a range of temperaments from a cheerful and brilliant youngster to a woman dealing with the aftereffects of motherhood and marriage. The drama, which debuted on CCTV-8 in the middle of July 2014, was a critical hit and won the title of Best Drama of 2014 on the popular streaming platform Douban. Yang became a regular cast member of the youth motivational reality show We Are Young in May.
Yang became a regular cast member of Dragon TV’s star travel reality series Sisters Over Flowers in April 2015. She starred in the adolescent romance Where Are All the Time in August. Yang starred in the historical drama Yangko Dance in October. The plot, which was based on the Haiyang Yangge folk dance, follows a man who becomes entangled in the complexities of love, family, and retaliation. The series achieved a total of 10 billion online views within 21 days of its broadcast, and it went on to become the Provincial Television Prime Ratings Champion in Jiangsu Television and Tianjin TV. It also maintained the top 5 places throughout the broadcast. Reviews for Yang’s portrayal of the patriotic and nice young woman were favorable. She co-starred in the horror mystery online series The Ferryman that same month.
Yang appeared in the urban romance drama Ode to Joy in April 2016. The story follows five young ladies who have various social and educational backgrounds but a shared objective. In addition to receiving positive reviews from critics and viewers, Yang became well-known for her depiction of the simple-minded girl from a small village named Qiu Yingying in the drama. Yang’s performance earned her nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the 23rd Shanghai Television Festival and Best Actress at the China TV Golden Eagle Award. In June, she starred in urban romantic drama Perfect Wedding, where she portrayed the character of a wedding coordinator.
She played Lu Xueqi, one of the two female leads in Noble Aspirations, the TV adaptation of Zhu Xian’s Xianxia novel, in July. The drama achieved financial success and set a record for the most views any Chinese drama at the time, with 23 billion views on the internet. As a result, Yang’s fame grew and she was nominated for Best Actress in the old drama category at the 22nd Huading Awards. She had a supporting role in the August movie Crying Out in Love, which was adapted from the romance book Socrates in Love by Japanese author Kyoichi Katayama. She made a comeback as Lu Xueqi in the second season of Noble Aspirations in December. Her role in the historical romance comedy drama Legend of Dragon Pearl debuted in May 2017. In the sequel to Ode to Joy, Yang played Qiu Yingying once more.
