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= Ouyang Fenqiang = This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ouyang.

Ouyang Fenqiang (Chinese: 欧阳奋强, pinyin: ōuyáng fènqiáng, born March 5 1963）is a Chinese actor and director. He is best known for his role named Jia Baoyu in television series Dream of the Red Chamber. The role named Jia Baoyu he portraied is a classic version received wide recognition in China. As a director, his best known work is the television series Love in the Rainy Season. His other works also received several Chinese official awards like the “Flying Apsaras Awards”, the “Five One Project Awards”, the “Golden Eagle Awards” and the “Courser Awards”.

Biography
Ouyang Fenqiang was born and brought up in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He went to the prestigious E’mei Film Studio in the province when he was 14 .No director preferred him to be a role in their works during his first six years there because he looks either like an adult nor a child.

In 1983, he was chosen by a director named Wang Fulin to play the role of Jia Baoyu in the television series the Dream of the Red Chamber. To look more like a handsome man of ancient China, he had micro-plastic operation before shooting this television series.

Career
1984-1987

He participated into shooting the Dream of the Red Chamber.

1987-1991

After completing the television series Dream of the Red Chamber, he refused to continue his actor career. He studied in Shenzhen University for becoming a director and his dream came true afterwards. He once said in an interview that “[T]here [were] too many stars in Beijing, he [was] likely to disappear among those stars.” On the other hand, he thought Jia Baoyu was such a weighty role so it was hard to overtake this classic role afterwards.

1992-2014

After beginning to work as a directer, Ouyang Fenqiang directed over 30 TV series (more than 300 episodes). His works won all kinds of television drama awards in China, however, he was not satisfied with himself. In an interview, he said that “Many audience still recognized me as Jia Baoyu but not the director of whichever famous television drama.”

2015-2018

He attempted to direct different kinds of TV dramas and films like the genres of horror and fantasy.

Filmography
As an actor As a director

Personal Life
1981, he met with his present wife Jiang Li.

1996, his daughter Ouyang Wenxin was born.