It only looks at actresses born in the 80’s. However, for some reason it doesn’t include Fan Bing Bing or Yuan Shan Shan, who are pretty successful on the big screen. The box office accumulation doesn’t just take into account if the actress was first billed, it seems to accumulate all recent works. Also the average box office is misleading since some actresses don’t have that many movies and if one of them was really successful, it drives up the average, e.g. Zhao Liying/Sandra Ma. While others who have a lot of movies can have a lower number. I just took the general information and organized it by total box office amount.
Bai Baihe (1984)
Total Box Office: ¥5.73 billion
Average Box Office: ¥520 million
Douban Average Score: 6.15
Representative Works: “Love is Not Blind”, “Demon Hunt”, “Go Away Mr. Tumor”
Yang Mi (1986)
Total Box Office: ¥3.34 billion
Average Box Office: ¥220 million
Douban Average Score: 4.96
Representative Works: “Tiny Times” series
Jing Tian (1988)
Total Box Office: ¥1.98 billion
Average Box Office: ¥220 million
Douban Average Score: 4.33
Representative Works: “Great Wall”
Liu Yifei (1987)
Total Box Office: ¥1.98 billion
Average Box Office: ¥132 million
Douban Average Score: 5.13
Representative Works: “The Forbidden Kingdom”
Angelababy (1989)
Total Box Office: ¥1.73 billion
Average Box Office: ¥133 million
Douban Average Score: 5.01
Representative Works: “Running Man”
Ni Ni (1988)
Total Box Office: ¥1.68 billion
Average Box Office: ¥210 million
Douban Average Score: 5.40
Representative Works: “The Flowers of War”
Yang Zishan (1986)
Total Box Office: ¥1.67 billion
Average Box Office: ¥280 million
Douban Average Score: 6.00
Representative Works: “So Young”
Ma Sichun (1988)
Total Box Office: ¥1.66 billion
Average Box Office: ¥550 million
Douban Average Score: 5.9
Representative Works: “Soul Mate”
Zhao Liying (1987)
Total Box Office: ¥1.22 billion
Average Box Office: ¥304 million
Douban Average Score: 5.33
Representative Works: “Duckweed”
Tang Yan (1983)
Total Box Office: ¥800 million
Average Box Office: ¥159 million
Douban Average Score: 5.1
Representative Works: “A Chinese Odyssey 3”
Liu Shi Shi (1987)
Total Box Office: ¥410 million
Average Box Office: ¥68 million
Douban Average Score: 5.63
Representative Works: “Brotherhood of Blades”
Bai Baihe gets the best box office results and she also has the best Douban scores. She also currently has the second highest all time grossing Chinese movie. YangMi does pretty good too when it comes to box office results. Angelababy gets Running Man as her best known work since there was a movie about the show.
Most of these ladies have upcoming movies this year or early next year. They are slowly making strides as a new generation of successful movie stars. Some upcoming works:
Bai BaiHe for Monster Hunt 2
Yang Mi for Reset
Jing Tian for Fist and Faith
Liu YiFei for Once Upon a Time
Ni Ni for Wukong
Zhao Liying for Monkey King 3
Tang Yan for The Three-Body Problem
Liu Shi Shi for The Liquidator
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If three body problem of tang yan released or yet to release?
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not yet released, not even promos so it could take some time
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It is a shame they didn’t include 90s. Zhou Dongyu is such a strong name holder 😛 I enjoy Bai Baihe and Ni Ni’s performances the most. Angelababy also have her moments ~
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Yep, I think Zhou Dongyu is going to dominate the next generation when it comes to movies.
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which is funny, because I would assume her image would not fit a whole lot of roles, but I guess when you get praise like she has been lately, roles will just be created for you
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Yes she is like in every movies lol. Most of her movies are good too.
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I really like Bai Baihe – she blends heart and gumption with the occasional wit so well!
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I have never known Yuan Shanshan was a movie star. She was always linked to Yu Zheng for me.
Bai Baihe is doing so well. Hopefully the scandal won’t affect her too much.
I feel like the 70s actresses have set the bar too high. Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi, Shu Qi etc are all movie legends.
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I dont think everyone on this post qualifies as a movie star. I would say most are trying to be one. Yuan Shanshan has at least one very successful movies, Jian Bing Man, so I expected she would be mentioned.
Yep, Bai Baihe has the best numbers out of all actresses in recent years. It does seem that way and they are still doing really good.
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Her numbers aren’t that good though, especially she has been pretty doing only movies… while most of the actresses in this list does both
Her husband’s are much better though.
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they are not, except for that one movie. But she would still place a bit higher than some others on this list.
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I believe YANGMI has the highest mega box office with Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms….is your data pre-TMOPB??? It is still currently circulating ALL OVER THE WORLD..
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3l3w is a drama, this is about movies aka the big screen.
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