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Edison Song
宋柏緯
Song in November 2023
Born
Song Po-wei

(1994-11-04) 4 November 1994 (age 30)
Taiwan
Education
OccupationActor
Years active2014–present

Edison Song Po-wei (Chinese: 宋柏緯; born 4 November 1994) is a Taiwanese actor. He made his acting debut with a minor role in Partners in Crime (2014), and gained public recognition for his role as Ho Shih-jung in the PTS series Days We Stared at the Sun II (2017), for which he received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the 53rd Golden Bell Awards. He also landed starring roles in the films Killed by Rock and Roll (2018), Stand By Me (2019), Bad Education (2022), and Love Is a Gun (2023).

Early life

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Song was born on 4 November 1994 in Taiwan.[1] He has an older sister,[2] and grew up in Taipei.[3] In high school, he aspired to become a jazz musician and was a member of the school's rock music club,[4][5] but was discovered by a talent scout while accompanying his girlfriend to a casting audition.[6][7] He was initially cast in Shen Ko-shang [zh]'s Siren Song, a drama film adapted from Chang Kuei-hsing's novel of the same name, but the project did not materialize.[8] Due to his parents' objections to studying performing arts, Song attended and later graduated from Jinwen University of Science and Technology with a degree in international commerce.[9][8] However, he developed an interest in acting and persuaded his parents to support him,[9] beginning to film advertisements and music videos at the age of 19 while still at university.[4]

Career

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Song made his acting debut in 2014 alongside his girlfriend in the crime film Partners in Crime,[10][9] and he had a minor role as a student arguing with Austin Lin's character in the romance film At Cafe 6.[11] He began his acting career in earnest in 2017, starring as Ho Shih-jung, an idealistic high school student involved in social activism, in the PTS series Days We Stared at the Sun II [zh].[12] Director Cheng Yu-chieh approached Song after watching a 2015 short film Laser in which he starred, inviting him to join the project a year before production began.[13][14] Since Song did not participate in the Sunflower Student Movement, he prepared for his role by reading books and watching documentaries about the protest.[15] He subsequently landed starring roles in the homosexual-themed web series HIStory as Feng He, who falls in love with his stepbrother (played by Duke Wu),[16] as well as in the horror web series Ghost High School [zh].[17] Song received nominations for Best Leading Actor in a Miniseries for Ghost High School and Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries for Days We Stared at the Sun II in the 53rd Golden Bell Awards.[18] He also had supporting roles in the drama films The Gangsters Daughter [zh] and The App from Heaven [zh] that same year.[19][20]

Song interviewed by Elle Taiwan in March 2020

In 2018, Song starred as Xiaosi, the lead singer of the fictional band Dictator, in the drama film Killed by Rock and Roll [zh].[21] Han Cheung of Taipei Times remarked on his casting, noting that all the band members in the film were played by real-life musicians except for Song, whom he described as a "heartthrob".[21] In 2019, Song was cast as the male lead, Qu Shou-zhi, in the coming-of-age romance series Brave to Love [zh] alongside Gingle Wang.[22] He then took on another lead role as Mai-zi, a university student who develops a relationship with a junior played by Ivy Shao, in the romance film Stand By Me [zh].[23] Song appeared as one of the three leads in the fantasy series Moonlight Romance [zh],[24] and as part of a love triangle in the romance series I, Myself [zh], alongside Sun Ke-fang [zh] and Sam Lin.[25] He also had a supporting role as Huang Li-tse in the thriller series The Magician on the Skywalk [zh],[26] and made cameo appearances in the Netflix series Light the Night and the Disney+ series Women in Taipei.[27][28]

In 2022, Song played Yuan-shou, the chairman of a high school guitar club who is secretly loved by the female lead (played by Moon Lee), in the film My Best Friend's Breakfast.[29] That same year, he received his breakout role as Han, an enabler of a high school gang, alongside Kent Tsai and Berant Zhu in Kai Ko's crime film Bad Education.[30] John Berra of Screen Daily praised the "fresh-faced leads" and commended Song for distinctly portraying his character's enabling nature.[31] He also had a starring role as a friend of Sweet Potato (played by Lee Hong-chi) in the 2023 drama film Love Is a Gun, although John Berra of Screen Daily described his role as an "inconsequential cameo".[32] He is set to star in the upcoming horror series Bloody Smart [zh].[33]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2014 Partners in Crime Rui-teng (瑞騰) [34]
2016 At Cafe 6 Zhang Zheng-ting (張正延) [11]
2017 The Gangsters Daughter [zh] Sen (阿森) [19]
The App from Heaven [zh] Huang Hsing-che (黃星徹) [20]
2018 Killed by Rock and Roll [zh] Little Four (小四) [21]
2019 Stand By Me [zh] Mai-zi (麥子) [23]
2022 My Best Friend's Breakfast Yuan-shou (張元碩) [29]
Bad Education Han (韓吉) [30]
2023 Love Is a Gun Sweet Potato's friend [32]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2017 HIStory Feng He (豐河) Main role (season 1)[16]
Ghost High School [zh] Lai Guan-yin (賴冠霖) Main role[17]
Days We Stared at the Sun II [zh] Ho Shih-jung (何士戎) Main role[12]
2019 Brave to Love [zh] Qu Shou-zhi (瞿守治) Main role[22]
2020 Moonlight Romance [zh] You Tian-le (游天樂) Main role[24]
I, Myself [zh] Ting Chih-ming (丁志明) Main role[25]
2021 The Magician on the Skywalk [zh] Huang Li-tse (王立澤) Recurring role[26]
Light the Night Mountain climbing student Guest appearance[27]
2022 Women in Taipei Shen Hua-ching (沈華慶) Cameo[28]
TBA Bloody Smart [zh] TBA Main role[33]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2018 53rd Golden Bell Awards Best Leading Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film Ghost High School [zh] Nominated [18]
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film Days We Stared at the Sun II [zh] Nominated

References

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