Guo Degang | |
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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 |
Official Website | http://www.guodegang.org/ |
Guo Degang (Chinese: 郭德纲; pinyin: Guō Dégāng) is a Chinese xiangsheng actor. His master was Hou Yaowen.
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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.[1]
Guo played a supporting role in a 2007 film Getting Home.