Lei Ling, female, Kunqu Dan player, was born in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province in 1971. She graduated from Hunan Art School in 1990 and joined Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe as an actor in the same year. She was awarded the fourth-class actor in 1995, and was promoted to the national second-class actor in 2004, a member of Hunan Dramatists Association and Vice Chairman of Chenzhou Dramatists Association.

Starring works

She starred in "Peony Pavilion·Travelling in the Garden·The Dream Interrupted·The Portrait·The Soul" and the"Phoenix Mountain". She also played Zhao Jingniang in "Winding & Cloud Gathering·Farewell to Jing Niang" and starred in the "Butterfly Dream", "Jade Hairpin", "Palace of Eternal Youth", "The Story of the White Rabbit·Snatching The Stick", "The Story of Pipa", " The Injustice to Dou E", "The Purple Hairpin" and other many excellent traditional plays.

Performance characteristics

She is beautiful in appearance, soft in body, delicate in performance and wide in drama. She is good at Guimen Dan, Zheng Dan and Liu Dan, and has a unique role experience in highly stylized movements, thus expressing the inner world of the characters, condensing and sublimating the taste of the world and life. She has graceful voice and is good at deep personage and consummate comprehensive ability.

Participating activities

In 1990, she was awarded the Outstanding Young Actor Award by the Provincial Department of Culture.

In 1994, she won the National Excellent Orchid Award of Kunqu Opera Young Actors Performance.

In 1994, she participated in the CCTV Drama TV Awards.

In 1996, she participated in the performance of CCTV Kyushu Theatre.

In 1997, she participated in the CCTV Drama Spring Festival Gala.

In 2002, she won the nomination award of "Promoting Kunqu Art Award" awarded by the Ministry of Culture of China in the performance of Chinese Kunqu Opera Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Actors of the UNESCO "Representative Works of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind".

In January 2004, she was awarded the Hunan Drama Hibiscus Award by the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture. In 2004, she participated in the CCTV Spring Festival Drama Gala and performed Kunqu Opera "The Purple Hairpin".

In July 2012, she won the 5th China (Suzhou) Kunqu Opera Performance Award.

In October 2012, she won the "Tian Han Performance Award"of the 4h Hunan Arts Festival.

In May 2013, the 26th China Drama Plum Blossom Award was unveiled in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Lei Ling, a young actor of Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe, won the Plum Blossom Award and became the only actor in our province who won the prize this year.