Li Xian

Li Xian (born 19 October 1991) is a Chinese actor.

Li Xian was born on October 19, 1991, in Xianning and grew up in Jingzhou, Hubei.

Xian was educated at the Jingzhou Middle School in Jingzhou.

In 2009, he planned to study STEM in college, but he failed the annual college entrance examination.

So he retook the test and was enrolled in acting major at Beijing Film Academy in 2010.

For the convenience of entry, Xian changed his Chinese name from "晛" to "现", which means "present".

He began his acting career by playing minor role in the film Feng Shui (2012).

Xian began his acting career with a minor role in the director Wang Jing's film Feng Shui (2012) as a young Li Xaoli.

He followed it with a role in the romantic teen film Singing When We're Young (2012).

Xian had his small-screen debut in the web series City of Fantasy (2014).

He made his small-screen debut in the first China's urban web series City of Fantasy (2014), in which he played a depressed young widower who rely on drugs to continue to live after his wife passed away named A Liang.

Xian then appeared in the coming-of-age brotherhood web series, Who Sleeps My Bro (2016) as a troubled university student named Xie Xun.

These part led him to being cast in the feature film adapted from the web series.

He followed it with an appearance in the music video for the song I Am Jiang Xiaobai by Zhang Qi and the music video for the song Medals by Lu Han.

Later, Xian was cast in the esports romance film Love O2O (2016), playing an online game developer team named Yu Banshan.

In the same year, he was cast in hisfirst Chinese forensic web series Medical Examiner Dr. Qin as one of the investigative team criminal police captain, Lin Tao.

Xian received his first starring role in the thriller detective web series Tientsin Mystic as the god river who solves complicated case by his logical reasoning and judgement, Guo Deyou.

To better depict the character, he learned the Mengzi dialect, freediving, snorkeling, and deep diving.

He won a The Actors of China Awards for Outstanding Actor for the first time for the role in 2017.

Xian then appeared in the film The Founding of an Army (2017), Luo Ronghuan.

In 2018, Xian starred in the romance television series Only Side by Side with You as a special forces agent, Chang Jianxiong.

He gained 20 pounds in 45 days for the role.

Xian then made a special appearance in the web series urban drama Women in Shanghai as a fresh graduate who looking for a job in Shanghai named Chen Xiaowei.

Also that year he was starring in film Nuts as intelligence university student, Xu Zicong.

His breakthrough role came in the esports drama, Go Go Squid! (2019).

Xian's breakthrough role came in the esports romantic comedy television series, Go Go Squid! (2019) based on the Mo Bao Fei Bao's novel ''Stewed Squid with Honey.

'' He portrayed Han Shangyan, a passionate young man, who had dedicated his life to winning a world championship for China.

The series was the most-streamed series in 2019.

Xian was awarded The Actors of China Award for outstanding actor in 2019 and 2020 as well as his first nomination for the Huading Award for Best New Actor in 2019 for the role.

Xian contributed to the soundtrack song For Future (Gei Wei Lai), which appeared on Billboard China Social Chart as well as Billboard China Top 100 for 10 weeks and peaked at Top 7.

Xian then made a special appearance as an air traffic controller in the Chinese film The Captain, which was directed by Hong Kong's Andrew Lau Wai-keung and is based on a real-life mid-air crisis aboard a Sichuan Airlines flight.

In 2019, during the broadcast of his drama Go Go Squid!, Xian's Baidu Index, WeChat Index, and Weibo all ranked first in follower growth.

His followers on Weibo grew quickly from 5 million to 20 million.

Xian is one of Baidu’s Top 10 most-searched celebrities of 2019.

His first major role came as a red fox in the adventure fantasy film Soul Snatcher (2020).

Xian appeared in Forbes Asia 100 Digital Stars list and Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2020.

Xian was awarded Best Choice of Multi-Screen Communication for Influential Actor in 2020 for the role.

Also that year he was starring in n the live action costume drama Sword Dynasty. He started sword training and physical training three months prior to the start of filming.

Xian received a nomination at the Busan International Film Festival Asia Contents Award for best actor for the role.

In 2020 Xian participated for the first time in the CCTV New Year's Gala where he performed "Hello 2020".