Биография "Rainie Yang"
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Career
Yang began her career as a member of the all-girl singing group 4 in Love, where she was given the stage name of Rainie, matching the weather theme of the member’s names. The group’s popularity in the music industry was mediocre and they achieved limited success.[citation needed] After the group disbanded, Yang continued to pursue a career in the entertainment industry as a TV host, hosting shows such as the «Guess Guess Guess» variety show. After playing supporting roles in several dramas (including the mega hit Meteor Garden), she landed the lead role (as Qi Yue) in the CTV drama Devil Beside You opposite Mike He in 2005. Devil Beside You proved to be very popular, allowing Rainie’s career to take off. The same year, she released her debut album, My Intuition, featuring her hit songs «Ai Mei» and «Li Xiang Qing Ren», which were both theme songs from Devil Beside You. My Intuition made Chinese entertainment history as the only debut album to reach platinum status, selling 1.5 million copies in South-East Asia.
In 2006, she released her follow-up album, Meeting Love, which also sold very well. On January 8, 2007, Yang recorded her last «Guess Guess Guess» show due to her busy schedule and focus on her music/acting career.[citation needed] Hoping to portray herself as a «serious» actress, Yang co-starred in the arthouse and lesbian-related film Spider Lilies alongside Isabella Leong. However, after co-starring in Spider Lilies, Yang returned to her previous cute image by becoming the lead actress in the drama Why Why Love (co-starring Mike He and Kingone Wang), which aired during the summer of 2007. She subsequently released her third album, My Other Self (otherwise known as Anywhere Door in Taiwan), on September 7, 2007. It features the theme songs from Why Why Love, «Que Yang» and «Wan Mei Bi Li».
On April 23, 2008, while filming the idol drama Miss No Good in Sanchih, Yang fell heavily from the stairs, and was sent to Mackay Memorial Hospital. The stairs were located between the third floor, where the dressing room was located, and the first floor, where the film set was located. The crew originally thought the falling object was a light frame, but upon hearing a groan, they realized it was her. After an X-ray examination, doctors diagnosed Yang’s injury as a spinal contusion. After leaving the hospital, producer Angie Chai took Yang to a Chinese massage therapist.[citation needed] Miss No Good, starring Yang and Wilber Pan, was aired during the fall/winter of 2008 and was met with much success.
She next appeared in GTV’s ToGetHer (2009), which stars herself, Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit, and George Hu.
Recently, Yang has finished filming The Child’s Eye in 3D in Thailand, an upcoming horror flick starring Yang and Elanne Kong. She is now spending the latter half of 2009 filming her next drama, Shanghai Sweetheart with Show Luo, in Gao Xiong.
Controversy
In 2003, Yang mistook the eight-year Second Sino-Japanese War as having been eleven years in length during a television program. After learning the actual length of the war, she responded with «Only eight years?» Internet postings exaggerated the incident to include her mistaking the death toll of the Nanking Massacre. Reports of her blunder generated anger in China, leading to the boycotting of Hunan Satellite Television’s airing of Devil Beside You, in which she acted. Upon learning of the widespread boycott, Hunan TV replaced the show’s airtime with Green Forest, My Home.
On April 3, 2007, Yang wrote a public apology letter to her fans, and said in an interview: «I left school early and entered the society. In the future I am willing to read diligently when I have time. I believe in the future I will have a deeper understanding of history…I apologize to everyone…I will work hard to do my job well in the future.»
