Recently, actor Ma Li has been in the spotlight, bringing a series of good news. She cooperated with Shen Teng again in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and presented a wonderful sketch performance. During the Spring Festival in the cinema, she co-starred with Lei Jiayin in the movie "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou, although the box office performance was only average, it exceeded 1 billion, ranking fourth in the Spring Festival file.
The success of this movie made the total box office of the movie starring Ma Li reach 18.1 billion, becoming the box office champion of actresses in Chinese film history. This achievement is a testament to her acting prowess and a testament to her multi-faceted acting talent.
Marie's success is not accidental. She was born in Dandong, Liaoning Province in 1982 from an ordinary family. However, her childhood was not peaceful, as her parents divorced when she was 8 years old, leaving her with the challenge of family changes.
Subsequently, her mother remarried, and her stepfather became an important pillar in her life, giving her fatherly care. Her stepfather's encouragement and support inspired her to pursue her dreams. Although she was a former sports student and excelled at various sports, she would have expected to become a sports practitioner, but in the end she chose the path of acting.
In 1996, Liaoning Culture and Art School rarely enrolled students in Ma Li's small county. Seeing this opportunity, Ma Li's stepfather decided to sign her up, despite her mother's opposition. Ma Li was very happy, she performed well in the exam, and she performed a non-physical performance perfectly. The invigilators were impressed by her acting talent, and she was finally accepted, and since then she has embarked on the road of acting.
Ma Li has risen all the way. In 2001, she was successfully admitted to the ** Drama Academy, which is the highest institution for acting majors, and she was undoubtedly full of hope for the future at that time.
However, she soon confronts the cruelty of reality. As soon as she arrived at the Chinese opera, she felt the pressure from her classmates. Although she has a youthful and beautiful appearance, she has low self-esteem compared to the beauties of Chinese opera. Despite this, she did not give up and firmly believed that her acting skills were solid and she would definitely become an excellent actor in the future.
However, the tricks of fate caught her off guard. Despite the fact that she has always been at the top of her professional classes, she was told that because her upper lip was too tall and looked like a monkey, she could not play the heroine of the graduation drama.
This experience had a great impact on Ma Li. She once thought that her appearance would not hinder her acting career, but the reality made her realize that her appearance may become a stumbling block to her career development.
At the same time, she is faced with an unexpected request from her mother, which makes her feel even more anxious. It turned out that she didn't know that the family was in financial trouble, and she always thought that even if her career was not going well, she could rely on her parents for support.
However, the support of her parents also became unreliable, and Ma Li realized that she had to rely on herself. Despite the difficulties faced by her acting career, she still does not give up and continues to accept various acting opportunities, including low-paying skewer jobs.
Luckily, her love of drama eventually brought her a turnaround. In 2005, during a drama performance, she attracted the attention of He Jiong and Shen Teng. Shen Teng's upcoming theatrical project was in need of an actress, so he invited Ma Li to collaborate.
This cooperation laid the foundation for her cooperation with "Happy Twist", and also opened her tacit cooperation with Shen Teng. Although she experienced a long period of no-name before becoming famous, in "Happy Twist", she gradually became a high-profile heroine.
In 2010, she cooperated with He Jiong to perform the sketch "Super Happiness Insoles" at the Lantern Festival Gala of Hunan Satellite TV, which received a good response. Although she has few other opportunities except for the stage of "Happy Twist", she still firmly believes that she will become an actor recognized by the audience.
Luckily, Mary soon saw the light of day. In 2013, she was able to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which was the second invitation, and the sketch was still played by Shen Teng as the leading actor, and the title of the play was still "Today's Happiness", but this time, the heroine was replaced by Ma Li.
This opportunity is very precious to Ma Li, and she must seize it. On the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Ma Li performed very well, and her exaggerated performance and the tacit cooperation between Shen Teng won bursts of applause from the audience.
After the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Ma Li's popularity has naturally improved, although it is not very high, but it is already better than before. You must know that before she appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, she was almost unknown, and she didn't even have the opportunity to have an affair with a male star.
Back in 2012, Ma Li accompanied her friend Xie Nan to watch a drama, and happened to be photographed by a reporter appearing with Wu Jing, which led to an inexplicable scandal between them. However, surprisingly, the headline of the report was "Wu Jing's private meeting with a red-haired beauty", and her name was not even mentioned. It can be seen that Ma Li's popularity was low at that time.
It wasn't until 2015 that Ma Li's career really took off. She first appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the third time, and then participated in the comedy competition reality show "Happy Comedian", and finally won the championship.
Although at this time, Ma Li's popularity has increased, especially her tacit partnership with Shen Teng has been recognized, but she always feels that there is still some distance between her identity and the identity of "actor". Until the end of September 2015, the movie "Charlotte Troubles" starring her was released and hit 14A high box office result of 4.1 billion.
Since then, Ma Li has begun to rise rapidly in the entertainment industry. However, surprisingly, she almost missed the opportunity for Charlotte's Troubles. The investor had expressed doubts about her box office appeal, but fortunately, the chosen heroine abruptly resigned before filming began, and finally gave Ma Li the opportunity to play "Ma Dongmei".
Ma Li went all out, although the film was not favored by the outside world, and was not even supported by promotional programs, she finally appeared on the stage of "Happy Camp" by contacting He Jiong privately.
Despite the huge success of her first starring film, Ma Li remained a newcomer to the showbiz and soon ran into a dilemma: audiences only liked to watch movies starring her with Shen Teng.
After "Charlotte's Troubles", Ma Li participated in many movies, many of which did not star with Shen Teng. Although the movie "Iron Fist of Shame" starring her and Allen did well at the box office, one of the scenes, "Come Here", is still the most memorable scene for the audience.
Of course, Ma Li knows that the first-class partnership effect with Shen Teng cannot be ignored, but the interference of external factors and her need for personal transformation have gradually reduced her chances of cooperating with Shen Teng.
What makes it difficult for the audience to accept is that in the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong City" released in 2018, the actress who cooperated with Shen Teng was not Ma Li, and we later learned that Ma Li was temporarily replaced.
This was undoubtedly a huge blow to her, but it also prompted her to accelerate the pace of transformation, realizing that working with more male actors was crucial to her career expansion.
Since then, we have seen a more diverse choice of Ma Li, who has participated in comedy movies, cooperated with actors such as Song Xiaobao and Qiao Shan, and is still able to create excellent performances.
In addition, she also partnered with Zhang Yu to show black humor in the movie "Siberian Tiger", and surprisingly, Ma Li rarely appears in TV series.
In 2022, she only played a supporting role in the TV series "Beyond", but won the "Best Supporting Actress" award at the Golden Eagle Awards for her outstanding performance.
This award fully affirms Ma Li's acting skills, and also proves that she is not only suitable for comedy, but also can still shine independently after leaving Shen Teng.
Despite this, Ma Li did not completely "break" with Shen Teng, after all, their cooperation has always been one of her trump cards. The film "Lonely on the Moon", released at the end of 2022, proves this once again.
The film has a box office of more than 3.1 billion, making Ma Li firmly on the throne of "the highest-grossing actress in Chinese", and more importantly, her acting career is still booming.
In 2023, Ma Li was invited to star in the movie "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou, this time she played the heroine and performed on the same stage with a group of powerful actors, showing Zhang Yimou's high recognition of her.
Being able to star in Zhang Yimou's film this time is an important milestone for Ma Li, sending a clear signal to the outside world that she has the ability to create diverse characters, not just comedy.
In addition, Ma Li's box office performance also proves that she does not rely solely on cooperation with Shen Teng to succeed. The total box office of this movie exceeded 18.1 billion, making her firmly at the top of the box office list of Chinese film actresses, which means that she has entered a new stage of her acting career.
In the future, she no longer has to worry about her career prospects, she just needs to continue to work hard to improve her acting skills and have the courage to try different types of roles, so that she can become a more well-rounded actor and have more strength to develop independently.
Ma Li's experience has taught other stars a profound lesson: no matter what kind of difficulties they encounter, as long as they continue to improve their strength and actively try, they can always find a turning point in adversity.