Age: 33
female
Yang Zi, otherwise known by the English name Andy Yang, is an actor and singer born in Beijing, China who got her start as a child. In 2014, she graduated from Beijing Film Academy (BFA). In 2002, Yang Zi made her debut in “Ru Ci Chu Shan” (如此出山) and in 2004, she made her big-screen debut in the film “Girl's Diary” (女生日记). In 2012, Yang Zi won the Best Newcomer Award at the 14th Golden Phoenix Awards for the thriller film “Insistence” (守株人). Yang Zi won the Best Actress in Modern TV Series award at the 26th Huading Awards and Outstanding Actress (Emerald Category) at the 6th The Actors of China Award Ceremony. At the 2019 iQiyi All-Star Carnival, she won the iQiyi Scream Goddess and earned the Favourite Supporting Actress award at the 16th Guangzhou Student Film Festival for her work on "The Bravest" (烈火英雄). She won three consecutive Weibo Queen titles at the 2019, 2020 and 2024 Weibo Awards Ceremonies and was awarded TV Drama Actress of the Year at the 2023 Tencent All-Star Night. On November 15, 2021, Yang Zi announced the expiration of her contract with H&R Century Pictures Co., Ltd and established her own personal studio the following day.
Red Riding Hood, here called Rosa, survived the wolf attack that killed her grandmother. The event convinces her of the evil of the grundwirgen, speaking animals whom her grandmother had tried to teach here were just as much people as humans, but whom her mother had raised her to hate. Her mother’s point proven right, she sets off on a quest to rid the world of grundwirgen, teaming up with Goldie (whom she rescued from bears, and whom she later realizes is a thief and a con artist). But by the time readers meet Rosa, she’s left that life long behind, and now accompanies Hou Yi, the famous archer of Chinese lore, on a quest to keep people safe from unthinking monsters. (Hou Yi is traditionally described as male; here she is female, and she complains that Westerners from Rosa’s lands “insist on calling me a man.”)
