Yu Yi (于毅)
Chinese actor born in Qingdao, lead of the Soul Ferry franchise, who gave voice and likeness to the young Wuming in the AIGC film Butterfly Dream.
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- 27
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- Active since
- 2026
Image: ghyculturemedia.com
- Nature
- Human
- Department
- Acting
- Based in
- Qingdao, Shandong
- Active since
- 2026
- 1 credit
Biography
Yu Yi (于毅) was born on 21 August 1978 in Qingdao, Shandong, and graduated from the television art class of 2001 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He became known in 2003 as Qiu Shi in the drama Boy and Girl, and in 2004 appeared in the musical Snow Wolf Lake with Jacky Cheung. In 2013 he won best supporting actor at the 11th Zuolin Awards.
He is best known as Zhao Li in the Soul Ferry series, which began in 2014, and also acted in The Dog-Beating Stick and Hot Hearts Black Earth. In the 2026 Soul Ferry: Ten Years he plays Zhao Li and a new lookalike character, Zhao Hengzhi.
For the 2026 AIGC films, he, Liu Zhiyang and Xiao Yin authorised their images and did the voice acting of their young selves as the series' three leads, with performance transferred onto AI characters. His image from the 2017 film Soul Ferry: Yellow Spring was used for the character Wuming.