#5QuestionsWith Rhydian Vaughan: ‘I like slow exercises, the deep breathing ones’

Rhydian Vaughn

After making his name in Taiwanese movies, Eurasian actor Rhydian Vaughan now finds himself rubbing shoulders with Hong Kong and Chinese stars in mainland Chinese projects. Better known to Chinese-speaking fans by his Mandarin name Feng Hsiao-yueh, the Taiwanese-British film actor already has more than a dozen Mandarin-language movies and dramas to his name.

Born in Wales, Vaughan turned 27 this month. The handsome actor inherited his artistic genes from his parents: his Taiwanese mother is a performance artist, his British father a violinist. His grandfather is Tibetan, while his grandmother hails from Henan. Vaughan spent his childhood running around the rustic Taipei countryside, and even got sent to the legendary Shaolin Temple for a brief stint when he was six.