Guo Degang

Guo Degang
Chinese name	郭德綱 (traditional)
Chinese name	郭德纲 (simplified)
Pinyin	Guō Dégāng (Mandarin)
Born	January 18th, 1973 Tianjin, China
Occupation	Xiangsheng actor
Spouse(s)	Wang Hui
Official website	http://www.guodegang.org/

Guo Degang (Chinese: 郭德纲; pinyin: Guō Dégāng) is a Chinese comedian and xiangsheng actor. His master was Hou Yaowen.

Biography

Guo Degang was born in Tianjin. He began to learn the art of storytelling, pingshu (评书), when he was 8 years old.

Guo went to Beijing in 1995 and established Deyun She (德云社), a xiangsheng performance theater, in 1996. He started in teahouses and achieved nationwide fame.

Guo played a supporting role in a 2007 film Getting Home.

Filmography

Films

• The 601st Phone Call (2006)
• Getting Home (2007)
• The Founding of a Republic (2009)
• Mars Baby (2009)
• Eaters (2009)
• Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
• The Love of Three Smile: Scholar and the Beauty (2010)
• The Warring States (2011)
• Marry a Perfect Man (2012)
• The Unfortunate Car (2012)
• Just Another Margin (2014)
• Mystery (2014)

Television series

• Dreaming Tang Dynasty (2012)
• Great Family 1912 (2012)
• King Rouge (2013)

External links

• Guo Degang at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Blog of Guo Degang
• Official website of Deyun She