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Chris Wu

BIOGRAPHY

Chris Wu is a Taiwanese actor and singer who trained at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, where the curriculum covers Chinese opera performance, acrobatics and martial arts. He began in music as a member of the idol group Super131, performing under the stage name Wu Zi Hao, and appeared on screen from 2012 in the series Sweet Sweet Bodyguard. After Super131 disbanded in 2014 he continued performing with former bandmates, completed military service between 2015 and 2017, and returned to work under the name Wu Cheng Yang. In 2017 he received the Model Star prize at the Asia Model Awards. He played the gang leader Tang Yi opposite Jake Hsu in the 2019 boys love series HIStory3: Trapped, which brought him attention outside Taiwan. His other screen credits include the films More Than Blue, Big Three Dragons, Your Name Engraved Herein and Organ Child, together with the series The Art of Position, Amensalism, Youngsters on Fire and What the Hell Is Love.

PROFILE DETAILS

Native Name
吳承洋
Former / Birth Name
吳子浩 (Wu Zi Hao)
Born
(Age 36)
Current Residence
Taipei
Gender
Male
Western Zodiac
Capricorn ♑
Nationality
Debut
2012 · Sweet Sweet Bodyguard (2012)
Years Active
2012 to present
Languages
Mandarin
Skills
Singing, Dancing, Acrobatics, Martial arts, Piano

FILMOGRAPHY: TV SERIES (1)

MUSIC CAREER

Wu was a member of the Taiwanese boy group Super131, which released two group albums in 2012 and 2014 with collaborative tracks alongside other artists. Over his career his work has been handled by several labels, including 美妙音樂, 新亞洲娛樂 AEG and Warner Music. He returned to music as a soloist and held his first personal mini concert, 吳承洋 x 起承 mini concert, on 22 December 2019 at CLAPPER STUDIO in the Syntrend complex in Taipei, rearranging almost every segment and performing songs he had never played live before. He continues to write songs privately.

Record Label
美妙音樂, 新亞洲娛樂 AEG, Warner Music

PERSONAL LIFE

Hobbies
songwriting, tricking
Favorite Animals
cats
Pets
a dog
Musical Instruments
piano
Sports
tricking, extreme martial arts, acrobatics, gymnastics, Chinese martial arts
Favorite Music
He says every style of music has something good in it, singles out Mandopop writers such as Mayday and Jay Chou, and admires the singing of JiaJia and Nicky Lee.
Personality
playful, teasing, disciplined, emotional

FUN FACTS

  • His birthday falls on the same calendar date as that of his HIStory3: Trapped co-star Jake Hsu, one year earlier.
  • His performing arts training included acrobatics and martial arts.
  • He plays the piano.
  • He sings and dances, skills he developed during his years in an idol group.
  • He describes himself as the sort of person who cries hard at the cinema and then feels awkward when the lights come up.
  • He shares his 30 December birthday with actor Jake Hsu, and both are Capricorns.
  • On his own account he says the aim of his tricking training is to reach a day with no fear at all left in the movement.
  • His first solo mini concert was held three days before Christmas in 2019.

TRIVIA

  • He trained at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts.
  • He was a member of the Taiwanese idol group Super131.
  • He performed under the stage name Wu Zi Hao before adopting Wu Cheng Yang.
  • He completed his compulsory military service between 2015 and 2017.
  • He received the Model Star prize at the Asia Model Awards in 2017.
  • He appeared in the 2020 feature film Your Name Engraved Herein.
  • He entered National Taiwan College of Performing Arts in the fifth grade and studied acrobatics, Peking opera, martial arts, gymnastics and classical dance through to high school.
  • During his school years he performed traditional acrobatics more than a thousand times in Taiwan and abroad.
  • He comes from a musical family, with a singer mother and a drummer father, and learned piano from childhood.
  • He trains in extreme martial arts, which he describes as a category similar to parkour, built on a tricking foundation.
  • He now teaches these skills to younger practitioners.
  • He won the Model Star Award at the Asia Model Awards on 27 June 2017.
  • He is a member of the music group Super131.
  • Named as a mentor or teacher in published interviews: Qi Xuan 奇軒, the Taiwanese tricking athlete he took as his master in extreme martial arts.

DREAMS & ASPIRATIONS

He writes songs privately and has said he would love to work with singer Della Ding, who encouraged him, adding that having her perform a song he wrote would be wonderful.

NOTABLE AWARDS

2017, Asia Model Awards, Model Star Award, Won

EDUCATION

National Taiwan College of Performing Arts

CAREER AT A GLANCE

Chris Wu holds one record in this catalogue: one leading role.

It dates from 2019.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What did Chris Wu train in, and from what age?

Chinese opera performance, acrobatics, martial arts, gymnastics and classical dance, at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts. He entered in the fifth grade and continued through to high school, and during those school years he performed traditional acrobatics more than a thousand times in Taiwan and abroad.

Why does he appear under two names?

He changed it after his group years. He performed with the idol group Super131 as Wu Zi Hao 吳子浩, and returned to work as Wu Cheng Yang 吳承洋 after the group disbanded in 2014 and he had completed military service between 2015 and 2017.

What is tricking, and who taught it to him?

An extreme martial arts discipline that he describes as similar to parkour, built on a tricking foundation. He took the Taiwanese tricking athlete Qi Xuan 奇軒 as his master in it, and he now teaches the skills to younger practitioners himself.

What is he training towards?

A day with no fear at all left in the movement. That is how he describes the aim of his own practice, which is an unusually precise thing for a performer to name as a goal, and it sits oddly against how emotional he says he is off the mat.

Where does the music come from?

His family. His mother is a singer and his father a drummer, and he learned piano from childhood. He went on to Super131, which released two group albums in 2012 and 2014, and he still writes songs privately.

What was his first solo concert?

吳承洋 x 起承 mini concert, on 22 December 2019 at CLAPPER STUDIO in the Syntrend complex in Taipei. He rearranged almost every segment of it and performed songs he had never played live before.

Who would he like to write a song for?

Della Ding, the singer, who encouraged him. He has said that having her perform something he had written would be wonderful, which is as far as his own songwriting has been made public.

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