Pu Cunxin

Pu Cunxin
Pu at an AIDS awareness event in 2010
Chinese name	濮存昕
Pinyin	Pǔ Cúnxīn (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Buk6 Cyun4jan1 (Cantonese)
Born	(1953-07-31) 31 July 1953 Beijing, China
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986 - present
Spouse(s)	Wan Ping (1981 - present)
Ancestry	Lishui, Jiangsu

Pu Cunxin, also transliterated as Pu Quanxin (Chinese: 濮存昕) is a Chinese actor who serves as Chairman of China Theatre Association since July 2015. He is or was a member of the Beijing Experimental Theater Troupe.

Life

Pu had a rough childhood. He could not walk normally because he had poliomyelitis when he was 2 year old. Pu's classmates always made fun of him, called him "Pu cripple". At the age of 9, Pu received a surgery for his leg, finally he can walk normally. He was sad about his nickname, but he had never given up his life or blamed anyone, he worked hard on everything to prove that he is as good as his peers. He said," I can walk normally without walking stick after 9 years old. I wanted to leave the school as soon as possible so that none can ever call me 'Pu Cripple'. It was obvious hurts me. But the most important thing is I have to face myself, now I can run and play basketball just like others." The reason of him being an actor is because of his father. Pu' father (Su min, Chinese name: 苏民) was a famous actor in Beijing. Pu always followed his father to the theater when he performances. Pu fall in love with acting day by day, finally he became an actor himself.

Book

Pu wrote an autobiography in 2008 called “I know where the light is” (Chinese: 我知道光在哪里) In the autobiography, he wrote 3 session about his childhood, how he became an actor and after he became an actor.

Philanthropy

Pu is not only an actor, he is also famous for philanthropy. Pu has been contribute to philanthropy for many years. Back in 2002, he received a reward from Moving China (a program held by China central Television (cctv) annually) as one of the person most inspired China during that year, because he has made great contribution to promoted preventing AIDS. Pu also found “Pu Cunxin Loving fund” helping children in poor area for their education or medical treatment. Some famous people like Pu are leading Chinese philanthropy, by doing so, they can remind more and more people to get involve in Philanthropy. The other thing about Pu is, he has represented many public service advertising(PSA). He encourages people to do things that good for the public, and he is doing that as well. In 2013, he finished his eleventh times blood donation at the age of 60. When he was leading the blood donation, many people followed and donated their blood as well.

Filmography

Films

Year	English Title	Original Title	Role
1991	Bell of Purity Temple	清涼寺的鐘聲	Master Mingjing
1993	The Blue Kite	藍風箏	Lin Shaolong
1998	Shower	洗澡	Liu Daming
1999	Agreed Not to Separate	說好不分手	Teng Yuanfeng
2005	A Bright Moon	一輪明月	Master Hongyi
	Lu Xun	魯迅	Lu Xun
2008	Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon	三國之見龍卸甲	Zhuge Liang
2011	Love for Life	最爱
2014	The Galaxy on Earth	天河

External links

• Pu Cunxin at the Internet Movie Database
• Pu Cunxin at the Chinese Movie Database

Cultural offices
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