Jiro Wang
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Jiro Wang nicknamed Da Dong meaning "Big East", was born on 24 August 1981. He is a Taiwanese
Taiwanese people
Taiwanese people may refer to individuals who either claim or are imputed cultural identity focused on the island of Taiwan and/or Taiwan Area which have been governed by the Republic of China since 1945...

 actor and singer, who started his career as a model. He is a member of Taiwanese Mandopop
Mandopop
Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for "Mandarin popular music." It is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Mandopop was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. As the name implies, Mandopop features songs...

 vocal quartet
Quartet
In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:...

 boy band
Boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...

 Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)
Fahrenheit is a Taiwanese boy band who has been active in Asia since 2005. The group debut with four members: Jiro Wang, Calvin Chen, Aaron Yan and Wu Chun. They are managed by Comic International Productions . The group's music is distributed by HIM International Music in Taiwan, by WOW Music in...

.

Biography

Jiro Wang was born August 24, 1981, in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. He graduated at Fu Shin Trade and Arts College with a degree in Advertising Design. After his graduation, he dedicated his life towards the entertainment business. He was first asked to join the entertainment business because he showed his looks at a competition. BMG, the label that signed him, planned to package him with Jay Chou
Jay Chou
Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills. Over the next two years, he was hired to compose for...

 and Jordan Chan
Jordan Chan
Jordan Chan Siu-Chun is a Chinese actor and musician from Hong Kong.Chan got his start by enrolling in the TVB Dancers' Training Class in 1985. Soon after graduation, he joined a few of the studio's troupes that would accompany popular singers during their live performances...

 to form a boy band called 3J, but, because of 9/11, BMG's stocks crashed and the 3J plan was scrapped. Jiro then decided to continue his career in the industry by working backstage, mainly in charge of fashion designing and other designing necessities, as well as commercial modeling. He was approached again around 2004, when his acting career began.

He speaks fluent Taiwanese and Mandarin and understands conversational English.

He used to play in an underground band named Karma as the lead singer. They have performed a song called "人間逃亡記" (Rénjiān táowáng jì) with lyrics composed by Jiro. After that, the band changed the name to Dong Cheng Wei
Dong Cheng Wei
Dong Cheng Wei is a Taiwanese rock band. It was an underground band that was formed during the band members' high school years. It gain certained amount of popularity because of the success of the lead vocal, Jiro Wang and the TV appearances on KO One, The X-Family, and K.O.3an Guo.- Television...

 (東城衛) without changing the members in the band. The band never received much popularity until Jiro joined Fahrenheit.

When he was 18, his father died, leaving him with his mother to pay the family's debt. This forced him into the commercial and modeling industry. The commercials he has appeared in include one for 蒙牛酸酸乳 Mengniu (a yogurt brand) as part of Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit features in ‘酸甜’ (Suan Tian) (among other songs) with the Taiwanese girl group
Girl group
A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...

 S.H.E.
Jiro will start acting in a new horror movie The House, director Hang-Sang Poon (who directed A Chinese Odyssey, Huo Yuanjia, CJ7, Ip Man) and special effects by Johnny (who worked for Batman 1-2, Troy) from 20th March. His co actress will be Dong Li Ya (Yaya).

Acting career

Wang is known as the male lead in the Taiwanese drama
Taiwanese drama
Taiwanese Drama refers to dramatic programming of television programming extended stories usually dramatizing relationships through the general range of ten to forty one-hour episodes. They are produced in Taiwan and have gained increasing popularity in the Mandarin-speaking community...

 KO One
KO One
KO One is a 2005 Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang, Calvin Chen, Aaron Yan and Danson Tang. It was produced by Comic International Productions and was first boardcast in Taiwan on cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 26 November 2005 to 27 May 2006.Before this drama was aired there...

(終極一班) (in which he plays the character Da Dong, from where he got his nickname as it is quite similar to his real name, Wang Dong Cheng) and its sequel The X-Family
The X-Family
The X-Family is a Taiwanese drama starring Pauline Lan, Jiro Wang, Danson Tang, Sunnie Huang, Calvin Chen, and Aaron Yan. It is a sequel to 2005 series KO One and was produced by Comic International Productions . The series started filming in June 2006 and wrapped in April 2007...

, as Ah Jin in It Started With a Kiss
It Started with a Kiss (TV series)
It Started with a Kiss is a Taiwanese drama starring Joe Cheng, Ariel Lin and Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit. It was based on the first 10 volumes of the Japanese manga series Itazura na Kiss written by Kaoru Tada...

and its sequel They Kiss Again
They Kiss Again (TV series)
They Kiss Again is a Taiwanese drama starring Joe Cheng, Ariel Lin, Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit and Danson Tang. It is the sequel to It Started With a Kiss which is based on the Japanese manga series Itazura na Kiss written by Kaoru Tada. It was produced by Comic International Productions and...

, as Jin Xiu Yi in the live-action Taiwanese drama, Hana-Kimi
Hanazakarino Kimitachihe
Hanazakarino Kimitachihe , is a 2006 Taiwanese drama starring Ella Chen of S.H.E, Wu Chun and Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit and Danson Tang. It was based on Japanese shōjo manga series Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, more commonly known as Hana Kimi, written by Hisaya Nakajo.This drama was produced by Comic...

(花樣少年少女), as Mars in ToGetHer
ToGetHer
ToGetHer is a 2009 Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit, Rainie Yang and George Hu. It was produced by Comic International Productions and directed by Linzi Ping...

(愛就宅一起), as Mi Qi Lin in Rolling Love
Rolling Love
Rolling Love is a 2008 Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit, Danson Tang, Genie Zhuo and Xiao Xun of Hey Girl. It was produced by Comic International Productions and directed by Mingtai Wang . The drama started filming on 30 October 2007 and wrapped on 21 March 2008...

(翻滾吧!蛋炒飯) and Shi Lang in Momo Love
Momo Love
Momo Love is a Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang and Calvin Chen of Fahrenheit, Cyndi Wang, Wong JingLun and Ken Chu of F4. It was produced by Comic International Productions and Gala Television and directed by Chu Yu-ning...

(桃花小妹).

On 3 May 2011, it was announced that Wang has replaced Wu Chun
Wu Chun
Wu Chun was born on 10 October 1979, birth name Goh Kiat Chun, is a Brunei-born Taiwanese actor, singer, former model and gym instructor....

 as male lead, "Night Tenjo", in a live-action adaptation of Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series Absolute Boyfriend
Absolute Boyfriend (TV series)
Absolute Boyfriend is a Taiwanese romance drama television series based on the original manga novel Absolute Boyfriend by Yuu Watase. Jiro Wang member of a Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit will play Night Tenjo's role while South Korean actress Ku Hye Sun will play Riiko Izawa.It was announced at a...

, with Korean actress Ku Hye Sun as "Riiko Izawa".

Music career

Wang was the first member to join Fahrenheit. He is the baritenor vocalist of the group. He is the one that usually has the rap part in most of the songs due to his fluency in the language. His publicized temperature is that of hot (热; ​) summer
Summer
Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice...

, at 95 fahrenheit.

Films

Year Title Chinese Title Role
2011 The Purple House 紫宅 Li Yi

Television Series

Year |English title |Co-stars
2002 聽笨金魚唱歌
2003 新麻辣鮮師 Spicy Teacher Rou Tian (桑田)
2004 第八號當舖 Pawnshop No. 8
Pawnshop No. 8
Pawnshop #8 is a Taiwanese television series produced in 2001 and focusing on two characters who share ownership on a pawnshop. The supernatural-tinged show currently airs on ImaginAsian in the United States. Critically acclaimed and well-received in numerous Asian countries, especially Mainland...

Ah Zhe
2005 惡作劇之吻 It Started with a Kiss
It Started with a Kiss (TV series)
It Started with a Kiss is a Taiwanese drama starring Joe Cheng, Ariel Lin and Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit. It was based on the first 10 volumes of the Japanese manga series Itazura na Kiss written by Kaoru Tada...

Jin Yuan Feng (金元豐) Kinnosuke Ikezawa Ariel Lin
Ariel Lin
Ariel Lin |Hakka]]: Lim2 Yi3 Sen2) was born 29 October 1982. She is a Taiwanese actress and singer, who won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the 43rd Golden Bell Awards...


Joe Cheng
Joe Cheng
Joseph Cheng, also known as Joe Cheng, was born on 19 June 1982. He is a Taiwanese model, actor and singer. Although he started his career as a model, Cheng is well known for his role as Jiang Zhishu in Taiwanese drama serial version of Japanese manga Itazura Na Kiss, It Started with a Kiss...

終極一班 KO One
KO One
KO One is a 2005 Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang, Calvin Chen, Aaron Yan and Danson Tang. It was produced by Comic International Productions and was first boardcast in Taiwan on cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 26 November 2005 to 27 May 2006.Before this drama was aired there...

Wang Da Dong (汪大東) Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen Yi Ru is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit. His stage name is a homophone of his birth name....


Aaron Yan
Aaron Yan
Aaron Yan is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer, commercial model and actor. He is the youngest member of Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band Fahrenheit.-Biography:Aaron Wu Geng Lin was born on November 20, 1986 in Taiwan....


Danson Tang
Danson Tang
Danson Tang was born on 2 September 1984. He is a Taiwanese actor and Mandopop singer, who started his career as a model before pursuing an acting career and later singing...

2006 花樣少年少女 Hanazakarino Kimitachihe
Hanazakarino Kimitachihe
Hanazakarino Kimitachihe , is a 2006 Taiwanese drama starring Ella Chen of S.H.E, Wu Chun and Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit and Danson Tang. It was based on Japanese shōjo manga series Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, more commonly known as Hana Kimi, written by Hisaya Nakajo.This drama was produced by Comic...

Jin Xiu Yi (金秀伊) Shuichi Nakatsu
Shuichi Nakatsu
Shuichi Nakatsu is a character in the manga series Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo. He's considered to be an important secondary character in the series.-Character:...

 
Ella Chen
Ella Chen
Chen Chia-Hwa , more commonly credited as Ella, is the oldest member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. Her name 'Ella', which means courage, was given after the personality test given by HIM Management Co....


Wu Chun
Wu Chun
Wu Chun was born on 10 October 1979, birth name Goh Kiat Chun, is a Brunei-born Taiwanese actor, singer, former model and gym instructor....

2007 終極一家 The X-Family
The X-Family
The X-Family is a Taiwanese drama starring Pauline Lan, Jiro Wang, Danson Tang, Sunnie Huang, Calvin Chen, and Aaron Yan. It is a sequel to 2005 series KO One and was produced by Comic International Productions . The series started filming in June 2006 and wrapped in April 2007...

Xia Lan Xing De Tian (夏蘭荇德‧天) / Wang Da Dong (汪大東) / Gui Long (鬼龍) / Zack  Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen Yi Ru is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit. His stage name is a homophone of his birth name....


Aaron Yan
Aaron Yan
Aaron Yan is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer, commercial model and actor. He is the youngest member of Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band Fahrenheit.-Biography:Aaron Wu Geng Lin was born on November 20, 1986 in Taiwan....


Danson Tang
Danson Tang
Danson Tang was born on 2 September 1984. He is a Taiwanese actor and Mandopop singer, who started his career as a model before pursuing an acting career and later singing...

惡作劇2吻 They Kiss Again
They Kiss Again (TV series)
They Kiss Again is a Taiwanese drama starring Joe Cheng, Ariel Lin, Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit and Danson Tang. It is the sequel to It Started With a Kiss which is based on the Japanese manga series Itazura na Kiss written by Kaoru Tada. It was produced by Comic International Productions and...

Jin Yuan Feng (金元豐) Kinnosuke Ikezawa Ariel Lin
Ariel Lin
Ariel Lin |Hakka]]: Lim2 Yi3 Sen2) was born 29 October 1982. She is a Taiwanese actress and singer, who won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the 43rd Golden Bell Awards...


Joe Cheng
Joe Cheng
Joseph Cheng, also known as Joe Cheng, was born on 19 June 1982. He is a Taiwanese model, actor and singer. Although he started his career as a model, Cheng is well known for his role as Jiang Zhishu in Taiwanese drama serial version of Japanese manga Itazura Na Kiss, It Started with a Kiss...


Danson Tang
Danson Tang
Danson Tang was born on 2 September 1984. He is a Taiwanese actor and Mandopop singer, who started his career as a model before pursuing an acting career and later singing...

2008 翻滾吧!蛋炒飯 Rolling Love
Rolling Love
Rolling Love is a 2008 Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit, Danson Tang, Genie Zhuo and Xiao Xun of Hey Girl. It was produced by Comic International Productions and directed by Mingtai Wang . The drama started filming on 30 October 2007 and wrapped on 21 March 2008...

Mi Qi Lin (米麒麟) Danson Tang
Danson Tang
Danson Tang was born on 2 September 1984. He is a Taiwanese actor and Mandopop singer, who started his career as a model before pursuing an acting career and later singing...


Genie Zhuo
Genie Zhuo
Genie Chuo was born on 20 January 1986. She is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer and actress, and also known as Genie Zhuo, "Xuan Xuan" or "Xiao Mi" .-Biography:...


Xiao Xun
Xiao Xun
Xiao Xun is a singer and actress. She is in the Taiwanese girl band Hey Girl. Her specialties are playing piano, singing, and acting. Her interests are playing piano, singing, and reading novels. Her wish is to spend a carefree life with the person she loves....

2009 愛就宅一起 ToGetHer
ToGetHer
ToGetHer is a 2009 Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang of Fahrenheit, Rainie Yang and George Hu. It was produced by Comic International Productions and directed by Linzi Ping...

Zhuang Jun Nan (莊俊男) aka Mars Rainie Yang
Rainie Yang
Rainie Yang , born June 4th, 1984, is a Taiwanese singer, Golden Bell Awards actress and talk show host.-Career:Yang began her career in 2000, as a member of Taiwanese quartet girl group 4 in Love, where she was given the stage name of Rainie, matching the weather theme of each member. The group's...


George Hu
George Hu
George Hu was born on 24 July 1982 in New York City, New York. He is an American-born actor of Taiwanese descent based in Taiwan. He is managed by First Media Corporation . In 2009, he became a member of the music band "Wu Hu Jiang" , co-working with leader Benji, Bo Yan, Shao Xiang and Si Wei...

終極三國 K.O.3an Guo
K.O.3an Guo
K.O.3an Guo is a Taiwanese drama starring George Hu, Xiu, Kirsten Ren and three out of four members of Fahrenheit as special guests, who starred in the prequels. The title is pronounced as "K.O.-san-guo". It is the third installment of the Zhong Ji series; preceded by KO One and The X-Family...

Wang Da Dong (汪大東) / Sun Ce (孙策) George Hu
George Hu
George Hu was born on 24 July 1982 in New York City, New York. He is an American-born actor of Taiwanese descent based in Taiwan. He is managed by First Media Corporation . In 2009, he became a member of the music band "Wu Hu Jiang" , co-working with leader Benji, Bo Yan, Shao Xiang and Si Wei...


Shu Chen
Dong Cheng Wei
Dong Cheng Wei is a Taiwanese rock band. It was an underground band that was formed during the band members' high school years. It gain certained amount of popularity because of the success of the lead vocal, Jiro Wang and the TV appearances on KO One, The X-Family, and K.O.3an Guo.- Television...

桃花小妹 Momo Love
Momo Love
Momo Love is a Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang and Calvin Chen of Fahrenheit, Cyndi Wang, Wong JingLun and Ken Chu of F4. It was produced by Comic International Productions and Gala Television and directed by Chu Yu-ning...

Shi Lang (史朗) Cyndi Wang
Cyndi Wang
Cyndi Wang was born on 5 September 1982. She is a Taiwanese singer and actress. Her birth name is Wáng Jūnrú .Wang has released eleven albums, nearly all of which carries her name...


Wong JingLun
Wong JingLun
Wong Jinglun , also known as Jing Wong, was born on 23 July 1983. He is a Taiwan-based Singaporean singer and actor. He is managed by Univerises Entertainment Marketing Limited , along with Show Luo, Elva Hsiao and Nick...


Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen Yi Ru is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit. His stage name is a homophone of his birth name....


Ken Chu
Ken Chu
Ken Chu |F4]]. Educated in Singapore , he speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English.-Biography:Chu was working as a waiter in Taiwan when he was discovered by Cai Zhiping, the creator of the boy band F4...

2011 陽光天使 Sunshine Angel
Sunshine Angel
Sunny Girl is a 2011 Taiwanese drama starring Wu Chun and Rainie Yang It is produced by Comic International Productions The drama started filming in May 2010 and wrapped on 21 September 2010. It was filmed on location in Taiwan, China and Japan. It is slated for broadcast in 2011...


Jiro (guest star) Rainie Yang
Rainie Yang
Rainie Yang , born June 4th, 1984, is a Taiwanese singer, Golden Bell Awards actress and talk show host.-Career:Yang began her career in 2000, as a member of Taiwanese quartet girl group 4 in Love, where she was given the stage name of Rainie, matching the weather theme of each member. The group's...


Wu Chun
Wu Chun
Wu Chun was born on 10 October 1979, birth name Goh Kiat Chun, is a Brunei-born Taiwanese actor, singer, former model and gym instructor....

絕對達令 Absolute Boyfriend
Absolute Boyfriend (TV series)
Absolute Boyfriend is a Taiwanese romance drama television series based on the original manga novel Absolute Boyfriend by Yuu Watase. Jiro Wang member of a Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit will play Night Tenjo's role while South Korean actress Ku Hye Sun will play Riiko Izawa.It was announced at a...


(in production)
Chen Naite (陳奈特) / Night Tenjo (零壹式) Ku Hye Sun

TV shows

  • 2010: Super King (终藝大國民): begins 19 June 2010 : CTS
    Chinese Television System
    Chinese Television System is a broadcast television station in Republic of China .-History:Founded on October 31, 1971, CTS started off as a joint venture between the ROC's Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education. At the time of its establishment, CTS was the only VHF-supported...

  • 2011: Absolute Boyfriend
    Absolute Boyfriend
    is a six volume manga series by Yuu Watase, first serialized in Shōjo Comic. Chuang Yi licensed it for an English language release in Singapore, with the first volume released in March 2005...

     : Taping still on-going. This series will begin in April 2012.

Guest appearances

Wang also performed in numerous MVs and commercials before his rise to stardom. He appeared in Fish Leong
Fish Leong
Fish Leong is the stage name of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian Chinese singer in the Mandarin pop scene who has had much success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan...

's (梁靜茹) 分手快樂 MV when he was 19. After the debut of Fahrenheit, he acted opposite follow HIM International Music
HIM International Music
HIM International Music is a Taiwanese independent record label and artist management company established in 1999. It was previously known as Grand Music International Inc....

 artist, Liu Li Yang
Liu Li Yang
Jeno Liu Liyang is a Chinese singer and actress. Jeno first found popularity in the third season of a singing contest in China, Super Girls or Super Voice Girl. Polling over 350 thousand votes, she emerged as the champion of the Guang Zhou district competition, and was subsequently crowned 2nd...

, in her music video Smiling Tears. He is also seen in various MV's of S.H.E
S.H.E
S.H.E is a Taiwanese girl group whose members are Selina Jen, Hebe Tien, and Ella Chen. The name of the group is an alphabetism derived from the first letter of each member's name. Since releasing their first album Girls Dorm , S.H.E has recorded 12 albums with sales totalling over 15 million, and...

 and fellow co-star Genie Zhuo
Genie Zhuo
Genie Chuo was born on 20 January 1986. She is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer and actress, and also known as Genie Zhuo, "Xuan Xuan" or "Xiao Mi" .-Biography:...

's "Never Ending Rainbow" .

Publications

  • 9 June 2010 : Van Gogh And Me - All About Jiro (梵谷與我:汪東城的字‧畫‧像) - ISBN 9789866606878. Jiro visited Amsterdam, Holland for this book

External links

Fahrenheit@HIM International Music Fahrenheit: Official Japan Site Jiro's Official Fahrenciti Blog Jiro's Wretch Blog Jiro's Weibo microblog
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