葛优的父亲是著名演员葛存壮。“文革”时期,葛优中学毕业以后便到北京昌平插队,因为身体单薄而被分去养猪。为了回城,葛优开始投考各类艺术团体,却屡试不中。在父亲的点拨下,1979年,他以小品《喂猪》叩开全总文工团的大门,当上话剧演员。这年他22岁。1993年,葛优主演张艺谋执导的《活着》获戛纳影帝,接着和冯小刚多次合作,成为中国贺岁电影支柱、当之无愧的百姓影帝。 Ge You’s father is a famous actor Ge Cunzhuang. “Cultural Revolution ” period, Ge You high school graduation will go to Changping, Beijing, the queue, because the body is thin and was divided to raise pigs. In order to return to the city, Ge You began to test various art groups, but not tried again and again. In his father’s advice, in 1979, he sketched the door of the total work group to feed the drama actress. This year he is 22 years old. In 1993, Ge You starring Zhang Yimou directed by “Cannes” won the Cannes cinemas, and then Feng Xiaogang and many times to cooperate, become the pillars of Chinese Lunar New Year film, a well-deserved people movie actor.