Meijuan Xi graduated from Shanghai Drama Academy acting institute. She was the member of CPPCC and NPC.As a renown theater actress, Xi won Plum Performance Award and Golden Lion Award for China Dream (1988), which are two most prestige stage awards in China.For Fake Daughter (1990), Xi crowned Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Then she played various characters in critical acclaimed films: a scientist wife in biography Jiang Zhu Ying (1992), an engineer in First Attraction (1993), Lindo's mother in The Joy Luck Club (1994), a gossip woman in The Strangers in Beijing (1995) and a kind country woman in A Tree (1996), for which she gained her second Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress nomination.Since mid-1990s, Xi focus on television series. In 1996, the drama series Sons & Daughters received favorable reviews and moving the nation. And Meijuan Xi won Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2002, she won Feitian Award for Outstanding Actress, for Red Carnation.Full Moon (2002), the only lead performance during 2000s for film, Xi won Shanghai Film Critics Award and her second Huabiao Award for Outstanding Actress.