Hai Qing

Hai Qing (Chinese: 海清; pinyin: Hǎi Qīng; born 12 January 1978) is a Chinese actress who has appeared in such films as Sacrifice (2010), Finding Mr. Right (2013), Operation Red Sea (2018), and Return to Dust (2022). For her role in the 2009–10 television series A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era, she was nominated for numerous TV awards, including a Flying Apsaras Award for Best Actress and a Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress, which she both won. Hai ranked 36th on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 46th in 2014, and 57th in 2015. In 2015, she became the first UN Women National Ambassador for China. Hai was born in 1978 in Gulou District, Nanjing. She began acting in television shows at the age of seven, before joining the Jiangsu Provincial Theater School at age twelve. In 1997, she was accepted to the Beijing Film Academy and shortly afterwards appeared in her first feature film, Jade Goddess of Mercy. Hai returned to the small screen a few years later, appearing in a number of supporting roles, before joining the cast of A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era. As the character Guo Hai-ping, Hai went on to receive three award nominations: two at the Golden Eagle Awards and one at the Flying Apsaras Awards.In 2015, while attending a United Nations HeForShe banquet, Hai was appointed the first UN Women goodwill ambassador for China by Assistant Secretary-General Lakshmi Puri. In this role, she became involved in the UN's "Step It Up for Gender Equality" campaign to end violence against women and help empower women in China.