---
name: "Zhang Yuqi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zhang-yuqi"
fi1m_id: "zhang-yuqi"
imdb_id: "nm2514879"
tmdb_id: 74947
wikidata_id: "Q700315"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 August 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T16:00:06.018963+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."
---

# Zhang Yuqi

## Identity

Zhang Yuqi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zhang-yuqi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zhang-yuqi
- **IMDb ID:** nm2514879
- **TMDB ID:** 74947
- **Wikidata ID:** Q700315
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yuqi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q700315, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2514879/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74947

Actor. Born 8 August 1986 in Dezhou, Shandong, China.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 August 1986, Dezhou, Shandong, China
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Also known as:** キティ・チャン, 张爽, 张秀娟, Kitty Zhang, کیتی ژانگ یوکی
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yuqi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q700315, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2514879/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74947

## Fi1m on Zhang Yuqi

> Zhang Yuqi has a welcome appetite for bold parts, but she has not always been given much to play. *The Mermaid* is worth seeing, though its greedy antagonist tells us too little about what Zhang can do.

In *The Mermaid* (2016), Zhang Yuqi’s Ruolan has greed and heels, and scarcely anything else to play. Stephen Chow needs an antagonist, and the writing gives her little opportunity to be more than that. Her willingness to play boldly suits a comedy this broad, but it cannot make the part more interesting. We recommend the film for its silliness and comic timing, with reservations about its lurch into grimness. We would be wary of treating Ruolan as a fair measure of what Zhang can do.

Chow had introduced her as the young teacher Miss Yuen in *CJ7* (2008), a markedly different assignment from Ruolan’s predatory businesswoman. The intervening work matters more than a simple account of discovery and reunion would suggest. In Wang Quan’an’s *White Deer Plain* (2012), she took the demanding lead role of Tian Xiao’e in a literary adaptation. Peter Chan’s *Dearest* (2014) gave her Fan Yun, a mother who has lost a child. Those roles asked her to handle sensuality and distress, and give us good reasons to look beyond her association with Chow.

The reunion in *The Mermaid* revived her film career, though the film itself is hardly generous to its supporting players. Chow keeps stopping the jokes to show the harm done by sonar, and each interruption makes the comedy harder to resume. We sat with our shoulders up around our ears as the film turned grim, because it had pushed aside the silliness that made it enjoyable. In that setting, Zhang’s job is largely to make the villainy unmistakable, with little room for the dramatic work suggested by her parts for Wang and Chan.

Chen Kaige’s fantasy mystery *Legend of the Demon Cat* (2017) gave her Chunqin, another role away from the director who introduced her. Not all of that work is persuasive: *The Golden Monk* (2017) belongs among her less convincing comic outings. Put *Dearest* beside *The Mermaid* for a fuller introduction than Chow’s businesswoman can provide.

## Biography

Zhang Yuqi, also credited as Kitty Zhang, is a Chinese actress. She trained at the Affiliated Chinese Opera School of Shanghai Theatre Academy and made her screen debut in an uncredited role in the 2007 film *The Longest Night in Shanghai*. She was discovered by Stephen Chow after appearing in a Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisement.

Zhang is known for her roles in Chow's films *CJ7* (2008), in which she played Miss Yuen, and *The Mermaid* (2016), as Ruolan. Her other film credits include *Dearest* (2014) and *Legend of the Demon Cat* (2017). She has also appeared in television series.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Mermaid* (2016), Fi1m 71, as Ruolan — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mermaid.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Double Happiness* (2025), series, as Xu Kaixin
- *Invincible Swordsman* (2025), as Invincible East
- *Untouchable* (2024), as Su Xiao
- *女子推理社 电影版* (2023), Actor
- *South Sea Tomb* (2023), series, as Shirley Yang
- *Welcome to Milele* (2023), series, as Wu Mei
- *The Outsider* (2023), series, as Su Mo
- *Kunlun Tomb* (2022), series, as Shirley Yang
- *Mom Wow* (2022), series, as Zhou Nannan
- *My Country, My Parents* (2021), as Xiao Pang's Mother (segment "Duck Prophet")
- *Candle in the Tomb: The Worm Valley* (2021), series, as Shirley Yang
- *Bye 2020 Comedy Night* (2020), Actor
- *The Case Solver* (2020), series, as Gongshu Chun
- *Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Caverns* (2020), series, as Shirley Yang
- *The Sexy Guys* (2019), as Wen Jing
- *Legend of the Demon Cat* (2017), as Chunqin
- *The Golden Monk* (2017), as Yu Nu / Jade / Jingjing
- *Come Across Love* (2017), as Xin Li
- *Ice Fantasy Destiny* (2017), series, Actor
- *Ice Fantasy* (2016), series, as Luo Luo
- *The Mermaid* (2016), as Ruolan — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mermaid.md)
- *Lost in the Pacific* (2016), as Ruoxin
- *The Honey Enemy* (2015), as Xia Xiaoyu
- *Dearest* (2014), as Fan Yun
- *White Deer Plain* (2012), as Tian Xiaoe
- *Hsue-shen Tsien* (2012), as Jiang Ying
- *The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman* (2011), as Madame Mei
- *Curse of the Deserted* (2010), as Gigi
- *Fortune King Is Coming to Town!* (2010), as Wu Shanshan
- *Jump* (2009), as Phoenix
- *All About Women* (2008), as Tang Lu
- *Shaolin Girl* (2008), as Ming Ming
- *CJ7* (2008), as Miss Yuen
- *The Longest Night in Shanghai* (2007), as Chinese Hair & Makeup Artist

## Gallery

- ![Zhang Yuqi](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-51335419acc6.jpg) Zhang Yuqi — Kit Liew, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Zhang_Yuqi_%282008%2C_cropped%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kitty Zhang Yuqi at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. "Press conference at J.W.Marriott KL on 5 Feb 2008 with Sing Yeh, Lee Sheung Ching & Kitty](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-6f68da824535.jpg) Kitty Zhang Yuqi at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. "Press conference at J.W.Marriott KL on 5 Feb 2008 with Sing Yeh, Lee Sheung Ching & Kitty — Kit Liew, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/ZhangYuqi.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Zhang Yuqi](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-13d1431c3e01.jpg) Zhang Yuqi — Image via TMDB
- ![Zhang Yuqi](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-1793f7929c8c.jpg) Zhang Yuqi — Image via TMDB
- ![Zhang Yuqi](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-e71150462d8b.jpg) Zhang Yuqi — Image via TMDB
- ![Zhang Yuqi](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-d2c6150a2e1f.jpg) Zhang Yuqi — Image via TMDB
- ![Zhang Yuqi](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-8a67a03d59a7.jpg) Zhang Yuqi — Image via TMDB
- ![Zhang Yuqi](https://film.one/media/person/5719778/gallery-18195dec8571.jpg) Zhang Yuqi — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer 2009: Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer (nominated), for *All About Women*

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

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