Dong Chengpeng

Dong Chengpeng (simplified Chinese: 董成鹏; traditional Chinese: 董成鵬; born January 12, 1982), commonly known by his stage name Da Peng, is a Chinese actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He received widespread recognition in China for his directorial debut in the 2015 film Pancake Man, which achieved 1.16 billion yuan ($178.16 million) in China. The movie also gave him increased recognition in the United States. In 2023, the film Johnny Keep Walking!, starring him, grossed more than 1.29 billion yuan ($179.31 million) in China.

In 2018, Da Peng won the Best Live Action Short Film Award at the 55th Golden Horse Awards for his film A Final Reunion. In 2023, he won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival for his leading role in the film Dust to Dust, for which he was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor on February 6, 2024.

Da Peng's directorial works include Pancake Man, City of Rock, A Final Reunion, The Reunions, One and Only, and Post Truth. In his acting career, he played roles in films by renowned Chinese directors, such as Feng Xiaogang's I Am Not Madame Bovary, Tsui Hark's Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (produced by Stephen Chow), Yuen Woo-ping's The Thousand Faces of Dunjia, and Cheng Er's Hidden Blade.

In the early 2010s, Da Peng made his name on China's new streaming platforms. In 2012, when he was the presenter of the talk show "Da Peng Debade" (meaning 'Da Peng Yakking'), he was widely covered by the U.S. mainstream media for his distance interactions with Conan O'Brien. In the same year, he became a star in China with a hit web series called "Diors Man", which ran for four seasons. As of July 2015, the series accumulated more than 3.6 billion views.