The veteran actor Shen Wei, who was good at playing the villain, passed away the night before (9th) at the age of 71. In an interview with the media, his friend Yang Yi confirmed the news of his death, saying that Shen Wei passed away peacefully. It is reported that Shen Wei passed away at Guanghua Hospital, and his death will be taken over by the “Rongguang Society”.
Shen Wei joined the film industry in 1970, and in 1985, he won the Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards with the film “Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers”. He played the role of the two-headed snake in the play, and he had a realistic expression in a scene where he was trapped in a burning car. It turned out that the director set the fire without notice, and he quarreled with the director McDonald followingward. For decades, Shen Wei has performed in hundreds of films, and he has also joined TVB and participated in dramas such as “Knife Horse Dan”, “Swordsman”, “The Big Trouble in Guangchanglong”, and faded out in the late 1990s.
In 2017, he made two mainland dramas before his comeback, and one of them, “Layout”, co-starred with Zeng Jiang. Zeng Jiang passed away at the end of April this year.
In 2019, Shen Wei fell into a coma for a while in Beijing due to pneumonia and respiratory system failure, which resulted in organ function damage.