Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose and Eat Drink Man Woman, and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997), Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011). His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace of Desire, the biographical mini-series The Legend of Eileen Chang (2004), the historical drama Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel Cold Nights (Han ye, 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011).
His character in Kabali (2016), Tony Lee, has a mentor whose name is Ang Lee. This is the same name as director Ang Lee, who discovered Chao and cast him in The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994).
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Cooperates with the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and donates to the organization every time he plays Yat-sen Sun.
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His father was a teacher and an expert on Yat-sen Sun.
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He had been an airline steward for seven years and had never acted in a film when Ang Lee cast him as his lead in The Wedding Banquet (1993). They spent three to four hours every day to teach him how to act. Lee later cast him again in Eat Drink Man Woman (1994).
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Grew up in Taiwan, but his parents are from Laiyang, Shandong, China.
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