Portrait of Yao Chen

Acting

Yao Chen

Career

Active from 1997 to 2025, busiest in 2010 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles
22
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score59/100
Highest rated
Poster for My Own Swordsman
My Own Swordsman
GoodWatch score88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 18 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.3 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.5 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 3.0 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 6.0 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.5 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.7 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Yao Chen Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Nostalgia
    2.4, average 3.8
  • Mystery
    2.6, average 4.0
  • Crime
    2.5, average 3.6
  • Scare
    1.5, average 2.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Chinese Cinema 3
  • Character-Driven 3
  • Visual Spectacle 3
  • Romantic Comedy 3
  • Character Study 3
  • Found Family Dynamics 2
  • Social Commentary 2
  • Contemporary Chinese Cinema 2
  • Workplace Rivalry 2
  • Coming-of-Age 2
  • Martial Arts 2
  • Character-Driven Narrative 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

60
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

20 titles · average score 69
Fight for Beauty
Fight for Beauty (2025)

TV show · as Qiao Yang

After Typhoon
After Typhoon (2025)

as Chen Shunan

Living the Land
Living the Land (2025)
GoodWatch score 66

Executive Producer

The King of Stand-up Comedy
The King of Stand-up Comedy (2024)

TV show · as 气氛组组长

Flaming Cloud
Flaming Cloud (2023)

as Yuexia Xu

Our Inn
Our Inn (2023)

TV show

If You Are the One 3
If You Are the One 3 (2023)
GoodWatch score 52

as Mang Guo

Rock it, Mom
Rock it, Mom (2022)

TV show

Mozart from Space
Mozart from Space (2022)

as Niu Yuxia

Vacation of Love
Vacation of Love (2021)

TV show · as Xu Keyi

Minning Town
Minning Town (2021)
GoodWatch score 85

TV show · as Wu Yuejuan

The Eight Hundred
The Eight Hundred (2020)
GoodWatch score 74

as He Xiangning

2010s

26 titles · average score 55
All Is Well
All Is Well (2019)
GoodWatch score 80

TV show · as Su Mingyu

Send Me to the Clouds
Send Me to the Clouds (2019)
GoodWatch score 65

as Sheng Nan

Lost, Found
Lost, Found (2018)
GoodWatch score 68

as Li Jie

Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back
Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017)
GoodWatch score 58

as Minister

Everybody's Fine
Everybody's Fine (2016)

as Qin Guan

MBA Partners
MBA Partners (2016)
GoodWatch score 41

as Lu Zhenxi

Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (2015)
GoodWatch score 54

as Shirley Yang

Divorce Lawyers
Divorce Lawyers (2014)

TV show · as Luo Li

Firestorm
Firestorm (2013)
GoodWatch score 56

as Yan Bing

Control
Control (2013)
GoodWatch score 56

as Jessica

My Own Swordsman
My Own Swordsman (2011)
GoodWatch score 53

as 郭芙蓉

If You Are the One 2
If You Are the One 2 (2010)
GoodWatch score 59

as Mang Guo

2000s

13 titles · average score 67
Lurk
Lurk (2009)
GoodWatch score 82

TV show · as 王翠平

Sophie's Revenge
Sophie's Revenge (2009)
GoodWatch score 57

as Lily

All's Well, End's Well 2009
All's Well, End's Well 2009 (2009)
GoodWatch score 42

as Bucktooth Jane

卫生队的故事
卫生队的故事 (2009)

TV show · as 小姚

防火墙5788
防火墙5788 (2008)

TV show · as Song Yuxiu

Two Stupid Eggs
Two Stupid Eggs (2007)

as Yan Zi

Behind The House
Behind The House (2007)

TV show · as 顾丽丽

My Own Swordsman
My Own Swordsman (2006)
GoodWatch score 88

TV show · as Guo Fu Rong

Big Movie
Big Movie (2006)

as Luo Qian

都市男女
都市男女 (2003)

TV show · as 苏青青

神鞭
神鞭 (2003)

TV show · as Zhan Jiarong

Story of The Cooking Class
Story of The Cooking Class (2002)

TV show · as 小姚护士

1990s

1 title
湖南卫视春节联欢晚会
湖南卫视春节联欢晚会 (1997)

TV show