Background and career
Zhou Dongyu (Chinese: 周冬雨; born 31 January 1992) is a Chinese actress. She rose to fame for her role in Zhang Yimou's film Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010). She is also known for her roles in Soul Mate (2016), for which she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress, Us and Them (2018), and Better Days (2019), for which she won both the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress and Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress.
Zhou was named by Southern Metropolis Daily as one of the "Four Dan actresses of the post-90s Generation". She ranked 71st on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2017, 7th in 2019, and 3rd in 2020.
