| Wang Wenjuan | |||||
| Birth Date: | 19 December 1926 | ||||
| Birth Place: | Sheng County, Zhejiang, China | ||||
| Death Place: | Huadong Hospital, Shanghai, China | ||||
| Occupation: | Yue opera performer | ||||
| Known For: | Young dan roles | ||||
| Style: | Wang school (founder) | ||||
| Children: | 1 | ||||
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Wang Wenjuan (; 19 December 1926 – 6 August 2021) was a noted performer in Yue opera. She was well known for playing the title role Lin Daiyu in the 1962 film of Dream of the Red Chamber,[1] [2] an adaptation of a work by Cao Xueqin.
Wang Wenjuan was born in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province. In 1947, she and Lu Jinhua founded a yueju troupe called Shaozhuang Troupe (Chinese: 少壮越剧团) in Shanghai. In 1961, she married Sun Daolin who was a famous Chinese director.[3] She died on 6 August 2021 in Huadong Hospital, Shanghai.[4]