---
name: "Tang Wei"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tang-wei"
fi1m_id: "tang-wei"
imdb_id: "nm2325018"
tmdb_id: 38280
wikidata_id: "Q270687"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 October 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T21:35:49.453805+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."
---

# Tang Wei

## Identity

Tang Wei

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tang-wei
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tang-wei
- **IMDb ID:** nm2325018
- **TMDB ID:** 38280
- **Wikidata ID:** Q270687
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Wei, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325018/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38280

Actor. Born 7 October 1979 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 October 1979, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
- **Also known as:** 湯唯, 汤唯, 탕웨이, Wei Tang, تانگ وی, تانگ وِی
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Wei, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270687, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325018/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38280

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Decision to Leave*](https://film.one/film/decision-to-leave.md) (82)

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## Fi1m on Tang Wei

> Tang Wei plays women who are choosing their words, and she lets us watch the choosing. In *Decision to Leave* the gap between what she means and what comes out is the whole film; the films around her have not always been worth the care.

In *Decision to Leave* (2022), Song Seo-rae answers a detective's questions in Korean she has learned, and when a word will not come she hands the job to her phone, which reads her Chinese aloud in a flat synthetic voice. Tang Wei plays every line as a decision. You can see her weigh the word, use it and then watch the man across the table to find out what it has done. She is never quite saying what she means, and the space between the two is where Park Chan-wook's film lives. It is the best thing in a film we rated highly, and the thing we remember.

She has been playing women under pressure to keep something back since Ang Lee's *Lust, Caution* (2007), where she was Wong Chia Chi and also Mrs Mak, and learned the dialect and the manners of the period to be both. Chinese screens did not see her again until *Crossing Hennessy* (2010), a Hong Kong romantic comedy, and the same year *Late Autumn* found her a Korean audience she has kept. After that the career divides neatly. There are the romantic leads of *Finding Mr. Right* (2013) and its sequels, which audiences took to more warmly than critics did. There is Ann Hui's *The Golden Era* (2014), in which she played the writer Xiao Hong and which critics also argued over. There is *Blackhat* (2015), an English-language part that few people noticed, and Bi Gan's *Long Day's Journey Into Night* (2018), an arthouse film with no interest in being easy.

The pattern is plain enough. She is at her best when a director gives her a secret and the time to guard it: Hui, Park, and the two-named woman of *Lust, Caution*. The commercial films were hits, and critics were cooler on them than audiences were. We have not reviewed them, but charm is the one thing she can do without visible effort, and the effort is the point.

We should own something about *Decision to Leave*. The second half moves the story to a foggy town and sets up a second case with phones, watches, recordings and deleted files, and we lost the thread twice. The first time we did not mind. The second time we were irritated, and the irritation was specific: Tang Wei was on screen, choosing her words, and we were doing arithmetic. What she does needs the camera to wait on her face while she decides. The plot kept looking at its watch.

Start with *Decision to Leave*, and when the case gets busy, watch her instead of it.

## Biography

Tang Wei (Chinese: 湯唯) is a Chinese actress. She was born on 7 October 1979 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

She rose to international prominence with her role in *Lust, Caution* (2007), directed by Ang Lee. Subsequent notable performances include *Late Autumn* (2011), *Finding Mr. Right* (2013), *The Golden Era* (2014), *Long Day's Journey Into Night* (2018), *Decision to Leave* (2022) as Song Seo-rae, and *Wonderland* (2024).

Tang Wei is the first non-Korean recipient of Best Actress awards at the Baeksang Arts Awards (twice), Blue Dragon Film Awards, Chunsa Film Art Awards and Buil Film Awards. She received the Trophée Chopard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Decision to Leave* (2022), Fi1m 82, as Song Seo-rae — [page](https://film.one/film/decision-to-leave.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Wind, One Brilliant Day* (2026), Actor
- *Wonderland* (2024), as Bai Li
- *Decision to Leave* (2022), as Song Seo-rae — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/decision-to-leave.md)
- *Ming Dynasty* (2019), series, as Sun Ruowei
- *The Whistleblower* (2019), as Zhou Wen
- *Push and Shove* (2019), Actor
- *Long Day's Journey Into Night* (2018), as Wan Qiwen / Kaizhen
- *Finding Mr. Right 2* (2016), as Jiao
- *Office* (2015), as Sophie
- *A Tale of Three Cities* (2015), as Chen Yuerong
- *Only You* (2015), as Fang Yuan
- *Monster Hunt* (2015), as Pawn Shop Owner
- *Blackhat* (2015), as Chen Lien
- *The Golden Era* (2014), as Xiao Hong
- *She Recognized the Storm: Xiao Hong and Her Golden Era* (2014), Actor
- *Finding Mr. Right* (2013), as Jiajia
- *Diors Man* (2012), series, Actor
- *Speed Angels* (2011), as Hong Xiaoyi
- *Dragon* (2011), as Yu
- *Beginning of the Great Revival* (2011), as Tao Yi
- *Late Autumn* (2011), as Anna
- *Crossing Hennessy* (2010), as Oi-Lin
- *Lust, Caution* (2007), as Wong Chia Chi / Mrs. Mak
- *红旗渠的儿女们* (2007), series, Actor
- *Silent Tears* (2006), series, as 尚丽
- *Policewoman Swallow* (2006), as Tian Yan
- *后海前街* (2004), series, Actor
- *屌丝男士2*, as 屌丝女神-文艺女神
- *The Brigands of Rattlecreek*, Actor
- *How A Peacock Burns It’s Feathers*, series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Tang Wei during a photoshoot for Marie Claire Korea in August 2022](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-0d112dcf6252.png) Tang Wei during a photoshoot for Marie Claire Korea in August 2022 — Marie Claire Korea, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/220804_Tang_Wei_Photoshoot_for_Marie_Claire_Korea.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tang Wei (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-45d43a9c7c33.jpg) Tang Wei (2008) — Chloe from Reading, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Tang_Wei2.jpg/1280px-Tang_Wei2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tang Wei](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-a765e910b931.jpg) Tang Wei — K-POPIT 케이팝잇, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/20250425_Tang_Wei_%E6%B1%A4%E5%94%AF_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tang Wei at the 2008 BAFTAS](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-8f1d067c03be.jpg) Tang Wei at the 2008 BAFTAS — Chloe from Reading, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Tang_Wei_2008_BAFTAS.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tang Wei](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-1a8fd7df27c4.jpg) Tang Wei — Image via TMDB
- ![Tang Wei](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-ba628ddc6eb6.jpg) Tang Wei — Image via TMDB
- ![Tang Wei](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-b9abb20e5b88.jpg) Tang Wei — Image via TMDB
- ![Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei at BIFF Square in South Korea. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-ff3a8fdc713b.jpg) Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei at BIFF Square in South Korea. (2011) — Jens-Olaf Walter, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Takeshi_Kaneshiro_and_Tang_Wei_at_BIFF_Square%2C_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tang Wei](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-f8e91e0fef2c.jpg) Tang Wei — Image via TMDB
- ![Tang Wei](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-fc637dbbdb80.jpg) Tang Wei — Image via TMDB
- ![Tang Wei](https://film.one/media/person/4127110/gallery-db848fc26e11.jpg) Tang Wei — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer 2007: Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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