Wei Hai-min (; born 1957) is a Taiwanese Peking opera singer-actress who plays Dan roles. A winner of Taiwan's and China's Plum Blossom Prize, Wei is widely recognized a Peking opera superstar. She is the first student of Mei Baojiu, who is one of the most well-known Peking opera masters in the world.
Wei Hai-min shot to fame in the 1980s with Wu Hsing-kuo's Contemporary Legend Theatre, known for adapting Western classics into Peking opera. In the 1990s she became the leading diva of the newly-founded GuoGuang Opera Company. In 2009 she worked with Robert Wilson on a Peking opera adaptation of , where she played an androgynous character — rare for female performers in this genre.
Year | English title | Original title | Role | Notes | |
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1977 | Orthodox Chinese Kung Fu | 名門正派 | |||
1978 | The 72 Desperate Rebels | 七十二煞星 | Liu Mei'er | ||
1995 | Confucius | 孔子傳 | Nan Zi | Voice role | |
2014 | Design 7 Love | 相愛的七種設計 | Mark's aunt | ||
2018 | Kafka's Lovers | XOXO卡夫卡 |