Tong Yao

Known for Acting

8/11/1985(Age 40)

Kunming, Yunnan province, China

Biography

Tong Yao graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and is an actress from Mainland China.

Known For (43 credits)

7.0

With Love With You

2025

A successful career woman, Wang Yan, and her rebellious younger sister, Wang Lingjun, navigate the challenges of city life, including workplace conflicts and complex relationships. Through their struggles, the sisters confront their differences, rediscover themselves, and ultimately find mutual redemption.

6.3

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Cesium Fallout

2024

Hong Kong’s historic first radiation disaster blockbuster! After a fire accident triggers a radiation leakage, the entire city suddenly finds its survival hanging by a thread. In order to tackle the impending catastrophe, expert Simon Fan joins the emergency crisis response team led by Acting Chief Executive Cecilia to tackle this catastrophic disaster. With the lives of 7 million people on the line, the fire brigade is tasked with stopping the spread at all costs by entering the radiation zone. Facing this unprecedented calamity, will Hong Kong wake up to an overnight annihilation?

8.3

Tender Light

2024

The dim light and shadow wake up the dark night, everything is silent, and there is no place to hide the heartbeat. In the lights of the town, Nanya and Zhou Luo encountered a touch of warmth.

7.3

Simple Days

2024

Gu Moli and Zhu Jincao struggled all the way from their hometown to set up a family of two in Shanghai. The marriage brought another problem that should not have been a problem - how they get along with their parents.

8.5

Life is a Long Quiet River

2022

Feng Xiaoqin, a determined daughter-in-law, and her wary sister-in-law Gu Qingyu grapple with family tensions and personal struggles after a sudden tragedy. Through conflict and self-discovery, the two women move from rivalry to understanding, coming together to face life’s challenges and protect their family’s future.

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We Will Grow Old Together

2022

We Will Grow Old Together is a true expression of intimacy by director Wen Ye, condensing memories in the night. Darkrooms, living rooms, cloakrooms, bedrooms, everything in the room witnessed their past. Incarnate and slice every night to restore the truest love.

7.0

Beyond

2022

After Beijing won the bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, former speed skater Zheng Kaixin builds the Qingdao speed skating team, searching for new talent. Passionate roller skater Chen Mian joins, determined to prove himself. As he rises through the ranks, past conflicts and Olympic dreams collide, shaping the future of China’s ice sports.

6.7

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Face's a Verb

2021

An anthology film of seven short films made during the Training Camp of FIRST Film Festival 2021.

9.2

The Rebel

2021

After ten years of knowledge and choice, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Lin Nansheng has grown into a true Communist Party member. And at the critical moment of the War of Liberation, he made outstanding contributions to the party and the country.

7.5

Nothing But Thirty

2020

Wang Man Ni is a strong-spirited lady who prides herself for having both beauty and brains and believes that she deserves better than what she has. As she falls in love with a man, she marries him immediately, yet later finds out that their differences are taking a huge toll on their relationship. Gu Jia was the homemaker behind her husband’s success from a nerdy programmer to the CEO of a company. She was also the perfect image of a full-time housewife. When another woman threatens her marriage, she doesn’t back down and tries hard to save her relationship with her husband. Zhong Xiao Qin is an ordinary woman with an ordinary job, married to a man with a stable career. She is also a casual writer. One day, the unthinkable happens when the copyrights for her novels are suddenly sold at an exorbitant price, thus turner her into the breadwinner of the family. As a power imbalance is seen between Zhong Xiao Qin and her husband, their marriage is also shaken.

9.0

Get Married or Not

2020

Tells about the love life of a woman aged over 35 years and has decided not to want to get married. His friend who is none other than the powerhouse of the company and owner of the beauty salon trapped between rescuers and applicants.

7.3

Imperfect Love

2020

The drama is shot from the perspective of women and tells a story about finding light in the darkness and embracing hope in motherhood. Lin Xu Zhi is a woman who doesn’t have a past. She was adopted and is still scarred from being abandoned by her birth mother. She’s an elementary school teacher that realizes one of her female students is receiving abuse from her mother. Her maternal instincts kick in, and she impulsively decides to bring the girl into her own care. In caring for the young girl, named Xiao Ou, two broken souls find solace in each other.