Zhang Xiaolin's personal experience.

Zhang Xiaolin, a native of Shandong, 1960 1 14 (September 26th, Gengzi Year, Lunar New Year) was born and raised in Shanghai, but he has the characteristics of Shandong people: he is tall and straightforward, and his childhood ideal is to be a sports star. I was a Shanghai track and field athlete in middle school, majoring in 1 10 meter hurdles, and also won a gold medal in track and field. However, an accidental injury (1979) shattered his dream of becoming a sports star, and he had to bid farewell to sports. Then he was transferred from the sports team to the seventh woolen mill in Shanghai as a mechanic and stayed for nearly three years. By chance, he met a student of Shanghai Theatre Academy. Encouraged by a friend who studied drama, 1982, Zhang Xiaolin entered the examination room of the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy with insufficient confidence. Who knows, he was admitted to the Film Academy with excellent results.

Four years later, with a systematic knowledge of film performance art, Zhang Xiaolin graduated and was assigned to Shanghai Film Studio as an actor, and successively participated in the filming of films such as Daughter Classic (1986), Black Temptation, Boys and Girls, Cruel Desire, Shanghai Dancer (Up and Down) and TV series such as Grand Hotel. Especially in the late 1980s, in order to revitalize Shanghai's film and television industry, Shanghai film and television industry launched a number of "Shanghai style" films. Zhang Xiaolin not only has the appearance of Shandong people, but also has the agility and flexibility of Jiangnan people. Therefore, it naturally becomes the representative of "Shanghai School" movies. For example, in the movie "Cruel Desire", he played the murderer and pianist Liu Ke, and played a talented but headstrong murderer to life. This piece of seafood has a strong taste and is very popular with the audience. Zhang Xiaolin's work, which is truly the most outstanding "Shanghai-style student", is the TV series Grand Hotel, which is full of contemporary Shanghai real life. Zhang Xiaolin plays the reformer Ding Dawei in the play, and his real and delicate performance makes the young, promising and handsome Ding Dawei lively and interesting. Since then, the reputation of "Shanghai Xiao Sheng" has spread like wildfire.