Portrait of Jackson Yee

Jackson Yee

Acting

Biography

Jackson Yee (born 28 November, 2000) is a Chinese actor and singer who graduated from The Central Academy of Drama. Already a major star across Asia by the age of 13, Yee gained international recognition with his film debut in the Oscar-nominated Better Days (2019), filmed at 17 and winning numerous Best Newcomer awards. Since then, Yee has starred in a string of record-breaking hits including A Little Red Flower (2020), The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021), China’s highest-grossing film of all time, Nice View (2022), Full River Red (2023), the top-grossing film of 2023, and Big World (2024). Yee's seven leading roles have amassed over US$2.8 billion at the box office (497 million admissions), earning him Best Actor nominations from all prestigious Chinese film awards. Jackson Yee is widely considered the leading figure in contemporary Chinese cinema, distinguished by his charisma, versatility and box office power. He topped the Forbes China Celebrity list in both 2020 and 2021, before the list’s discontinuation.

Born: November 28, 2000

Place of Birth: Huaihua, Hunan, China

Filmography

2025
Resurrection

as Monster / Qiu / Damned Dog / Man / Apollo

2025
She's Got No Name

as Blind Song

2024
Big World

as Liu Chunhe

2024
2023
At the Fair

as Hawker/ Watchmaker/ Postman

2023
Unknown Animal

as Zhuang Zhou/ 庄周

2023
Full River Red

as Sun Jun

2022
Hero

as Li Zhaohua

2022
Nice View

as Jing Hao

2021
Chinese Doctors

as Yang Xiaoyang

2020
A Little Red Flower

as Wei Yihang

2020
We Are Young

as Self - Mentor

2020
2019
2019
Better Days

as Xiao Bei

2017
Boy Hood

as Yin Ke

2017
Song of Phoenix

as Qu Yuan [Teen]

2017
GG Bond: Guarding

as 未来猪猪侠

2016
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Three Words

as brother Daguang

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The Belief

as Emperor Kangxi