Po Yen-hua - Taiwanese actress in Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars

Po Yen-hua

BIOGRAPHY

Po Yen-hua (Chinese: 柏妍樺; known professionally as Bobo; born March 1, 2000) is a Taiwanese actor signed to iStar Entertainment. She came to acting by an unusually indirect route: she read Electronic Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and was on course for a career in the technology sector when modelling work in her third year pulled her towards performance.

She left that track in 2022, forgoing a graduate degree and an engineering salary against her family’s objections, and spent her first years in the industry supporting herself with cram-school maths teaching, coffee-shop shifts, house cleaning, leaflet distribution and removals work. Her early professional record is built on commercials and print campaigns, Galaxy Tab S8, Corona, Mouser Electronics, OB Select, Stayreal, Reebok and Columbia, alongside the 2022 short Together Together Together.

Her first substantial screen role was in a sixty-episode Taiwanese daily drama, a job she has described as a trial by fire in which she only began to understand her own craft around the fifty-fifth episode. She followed it with the ghost character A-Lien in a period drama, a seventeen-year-old frozen in 1945 and waiting eighty years for a first love, for which she researched twentieth-century Taiwanese history in depth; the veteran actor Ko Shu-yuan coached her through the shoot. Her TMDB-listed credits are Our Wife Lina (2023), Our Honorary Photo Studio (2024), the film Mudborn (2025) as Hsiao-Chao, and the 2026 BL series Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars, in which she plays Bai Mei-lin. She has also been announced in the ensemble of the GL series Her Lips, Her Kiss. She stands 162 cm (5’4″).

PROFILE DETAILS

Native Name
柏妍樺
Real Name
Po Yen-hua (Yen-Hua Po)
Nickname
Bobo
Pronouns
she/her
Born
(Age 26)
Gender
Female
Western Zodiac
Pisces ♓
Chinese Zodiac
Dragon 🐉
Height
162 cm (5'4")
Profession
Nationality
Agency / Label
iStar Entertainment (星發現娛樂股份有限公司) (current)
Years Active
2022-present
Languages
Mandarin Chinese

PERSONAL LIFE

Hobbies
Skateboarding, People-watching, Film appreciation

EDUCATION

Studied Electronic Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. She left the programme in 2022 to pursue acting full time rather than continue to a graduate degree.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Who is Po Yen-hua?

Po Yen-hua (柏妍樺), who works professionally as Bobo, is a Taiwanese actor born on March 1, 2000. She is signed to iStar Entertainment and appears in the 2026 BL series Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars.

What role does Po Yen-hua play in Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars?

She plays Bai Mei-lin in the 2026 Taiwanese BL series.

What did Po Yen-hua study before acting?

She read Electronic Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and was headed for a technology career before modelling work in her third year led her into acting. She left that path in 2022.

How tall is Po Yen-hua?

Her agency, iStar Entertainment, lists her height as 162 cm (5’4″).

What are Po Yen-hua's screen credits?

Her listed credits include Our Wife Lina (2023), Our Honorary Photo Studio (2024), the film Mudborn (2025) as Hsiao-Chao and Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars (2026) as Bai Mei-lin. She has also been announced in the ensemble of the GL series Her Lips, Her Kiss.

What was Po Yen-hua's hardest role?

She has said her first substantial role, in a sixty-episode daily drama, was the steepest learning curve of her career, and that she only felt she understood the craft around the fifty-fifth episode. She later played a ghost character frozen at seventeen in 1945, for which she researched twentieth-century Taiwanese history.

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Sources

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Sources consulted: TMDB person record, TMDB combined credits, IMDb, iStar Entertainment official artist page, Chew People magazine interview (2025), Chinese Wikipedia, official Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars cast billing.

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