Born in Bengbu in 1988, Ma Sichun trained at the Beijing Film Academy and emerged as one of mainland China's leading young actresses of the mid-2010s. She won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for the friendship drama Soul Mate (2016) alongside Zhou Dongyu, and reunited with director Derek Tsang on the acclaimed Better Days (2019). She also anchored the romance Us and Them (2018) directed by Rene Liu. On television she led the hit period drama Nirvana in Fire II (2017). Her screen presence is grounded and emotionally direct, well suited to melancholy contemporary roles. Read more