--- name: "Huang Jingyu" canonical: "https://film.one/person/johnny-huang" fi1m_id: "johnny-huang" imdb_id: "nm8361677" tmdb_id: 1816461 wikidata_id: "Q25324763" roles: ["Actor"] born: "30 November 1992" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-05T16:41:34.229799+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Huang Jingyu ## Identity Huang Jingyu - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/johnny-huang - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** johnny-huang - **IMDb ID:** nm8361677 - **TMDB ID:** 1816461 - **Wikidata ID:** Q25324763 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Jingyu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25324763, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8361677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1816461 Actor. Born 30 November 1992 in Dandong, Liaoning Province, China. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 30 November 1992, Dandong, Liaoning Province, China - **Active:** 2018–present - **Also known as:** Johnny Huang, Huang Jing Yu, 黄景瑜, Hoàng Cảnh Du, 黃景瑜, Хуан Цзин Юй, جانی هوانگ, جانی وانگ - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Jingyu, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25324763, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8361677/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1816461 ## Streaming the US now - **The Roku Channel:** [*Operation Red Sea*](https://film.one/film/operation-red-sea.md) (54) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Huang Jingyu > Huang Jingyu brings physical credibility and a relaxed delivery to action roles. We value those qualities, but *Operation Red Sea* gives him too little character to play once he has convinced us he belongs in the fighting. In *Operation Red Sea* (2018), Huang Jingyu plays the sniper Gu Shun with the physical credibility the assignment needs. The problem comes when the film needs us to care about him as well as believe he can do the job. We admired the action but struggled to care about Gu Shun, because the screenplay gives him so little individual detail. Huang helps make the fighting convincing; he has much less chance to establish a person we might remember once it stops. His acting debut was as Gu Hai in the web drama *Addicted* (2016), before *Operation Red Sea* took him into mainstream military action. Police and rescue projects followed, including *The Thunder* (2019) and *Bright Eyes in the Dark* (2023), making repeated use of his build and athletic background. Yet the work is not confined to uniforms: *Moonshine and Valentine* (2018) is a romance and fantasy drama. Han Han's racing comedy *Pegasus* (2019) gave him Lin Zhendong, a role he returned to in *Pegasus 2* (2024). Huang has described playing Gu Hai as close to playing himself. He said he spoke in his own way rather than sticking to the words, because the character's personality was so close to his own. His relaxed delivery makes competence look ordinary rather than performed for our benefit. That ease is worth preserving, but it need not mean casting him in the same sort of part indefinitely. Dante Lam's *Operation Red Sea* is the caution here, leaving Huang, Zhang Yi and Du Jiang to carry our interest through insistent fighting. The screenplay by Eric Lin Ming-Chie, Chen Zhuzhu and Feng Ji, with Lam also credited as writer, gives their faintly drawn characters too little help. That is not a failure we would lay solely at Huang's feet. Nor would we mistake a convincing sniper for a full account of what he can do. For another action role, we would want a script that gives him more to do between the fights. ## Biography Huang Jingyu, also known as Johnny Huang, is a Chinese actor and model. He was born on 30 November 1992 in Dandong, Liaoning Province, China, and attended Eastern Liaoning University. He began his career as a model before making his acting debut as Gu Hai in the 2016 web drama *Addicted*. In 2018, he played Gu Shun in the action film *Operation Red Sea*, directed by Dante Lam, which became the highest-grossing Chinese film of the year and earned him the Best Newcomer Award at the Asian Film Awards. Huang is also known for his roles as Lin Zhendong in *Pegasus* (2019) and *Pegasus 2* (2024), and for appearances in series such as *Moonshine and Valentine* (2018) and *The Thunder* (2019). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Operation Red Sea* (2018), Fi1m 54, as Gu Shun — [page](https://film.one/film/operation-red-sea.md) ## Complete filmography (37) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Forging Justice* (2026), series, as Chen Yizhong - *Our Dazzling Days* (2026), series, as Zhang Xiaoman - *Pegasus 3* (2026), as Lin Zhendong - *The Punishment* (2025), series, as Qin Feng - *Axe2Grind* (2025), as Jake - *Love Song in Winter* (2024), series, as Jiang Chenyi - *The First Shot* (2024), series, as Zheng Bei - *Lost Identity* (2024), series, as Ou Xiaoan / 欧孝安 - *Formed Police Unit* (2024), as Yu Weidong - *Pegasus 2* (2024), as Lin Zhendong - *Bloodthirst* (2023), as Charlie - *Bright Eyes in the Dark* (2023), series, as Lin Luxiao - *The Procurator* (2023), as Li Rui - *Chasing the Undercurrent* (2022), series, as Chang Zheng, Qin Feng - *Ace Troops* (2021), series, as Gao Liang, Theme Song Performance - *Lucky With You* (2021), series, as Hou Jue - *My Dear Guardian* (2021), series, as Liang Muze - *Something Just Like This* (2020), series, as Duan Ran - *Oversize Love* (2020), as Han Bing - *With You* (2020), series, as Lu Chaoyang - *Attack of the Unknown* (2020), as Dallas - *Wild Grass* (2020), as Wu Feng - *Love Designer* (2020), series, as Song Lin - *Lost in Russia* (2020), as Driver Da Long - *Mao Zedong 1949* (2019), as Chen Youfu - *The Thunder* (2019), series, as Li Fei - *Pegasus* (2019), as Lin Zhendong - *Moonshine and Valentine* (2018), series, as Helan Jingting - *Operation Red Sea* (2018), as Gu Shun — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/operation-red-sea.md) - *The Master Of Lion Dance* (2017), Actor - *Addicted* (2016), series, as Gu Hai - *Love Song in Summer*, series, as Li Zechuan - *Guns and Kidneys*, as Amon - *Abyssal Sentience*, series, as Chu Nanfei - *Winner*, series, as Lu Yunxiang - *Sea of Dreams*, series, as Jiang Xingbei - *斗贼*, series, as Ping Sange ## Gallery - ![​160409 深圳 音乐风云榜 -黄景瑜- 4P (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/5739366/gallery-aabb003ec556.jpg) ​160409 深圳 音乐风云榜 -黄景瑜- 4P (2016) — jinn, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/160409_%E6%B7%B1%E5%9C%B3_%E9%9F%B3%E4%B9%90%E9%A3%8E%E4%BA%91%E6%A6%9C_-%E9%BB%84%E6%99%AF%E7%91%9C-_4P_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![​160409 深圳 音乐风云榜 -黄景瑜- 4P (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/5739366/gallery-04cbbbd87ece.jpg) ​160409 深圳 音乐风云榜 -黄景瑜- 4P (2016) — jinn, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/160409_%E6%B7%B1%E5%9C%B3_%E9%9F%B3%E4%B9%90%E9%A3%8E%E4%BA%91%E6%A6%9C_-%E9%BB%84%E6%99%AF%E7%91%9C-_4P_%283%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![​160409 深圳 音乐风云榜 -黄景瑜- 4P (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/5739366/gallery-e7ed481d60be.jpg) ​160409 深圳 音乐风云榜 -黄景瑜- 4P (2016) — jinn, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/160409_%E6%B7%B1%E5%9C%B3_%E9%9F%B3%E4%B9%90%E9%A3%8E%E4%BA%91%E6%A6%9C_-%E9%BB%84%E6%99%AF%E7%91%9C-_4P_%284%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Huang Jingyu](https://film.one/media/person/5739366/gallery-919bbe385252.png) Huang Jingyu — Jingyu yam, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Huang_Jingyu.png/1280px-Huang_Jingyu.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Huang Jingyu](https://film.one/media/person/5739366/gallery-0784413e97b6.jpg) Huang Jingyu — Image via TMDB - ![Huang Jingyu](https://film.one/media/person/5739366/gallery-aabd786fdb34.jpg) Huang Jingyu — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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