1986 participated in the filming of the feature film Pearl Krabs's Hair House. In the historical drama "Romantic Generation" in the same year, the southern girl peach was decorated as pure as water.
1987 She plays the hero's girlfriend in the urban crime drama Plainclothes Police directed by Lin. With this drama, she was nominated for the best actress in the 6th China Golden Eagle Award and awarded the Golden Shield Award by the Ministry of Public Security.
1988 cooperated with Lei Han in the feature film "Samsara" directed by Huang Jianxin, playing the innocent girl Yu Jing.
1990, at the invitation of Emei Film Studio, Tan Xiaoyan played the heroine's female ancient painter in The Journey to the West, a film adapted from Ai Wu's novel of the same name. In the same year, he joined the urban love drama Happy Family directed by Yinnan Ding, playing Yaping, a girl who was born in Taipei and married to Beijing.
199 1 starring in the family emotional film Chinese New Year, which was adapted from the stage play Chinese New Year, won the special prize of the jury of the 4th Tokyo International Film Festival, and 15 won the best feature film award in Hundred Flowers Award. After that, he went to the sea to do business and faded out of the entertainment circle.
From 65438 to 0993, Tan Xiaoyan began to organize and operate a film and television company. Because of her inexperience, two or three short films she invested in failed. At the end of the year, she resolutely went abroad to develop, went to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, the United States and other countries, and faded out of the film circle.
In 2000, Tan Xiaoyan returned to show business as a producer. In the same year, his biographical film Cai won five individual awards.
In 2003, she participated in the costume comedy "Li Wei Official 2" starring Xu Zongheng, playing Gu, a famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River.
In 2005, 18 February 18, the historical drama "Gou Jian, Yue Wang" was turned off in Anji, Zhejiang, and she played Mrs. Gou Jian.
In 2006, she played the wolf in the family drama "The Son Picks His Son's Wife and Children" of the Republic of China directed by Lin.
In 2008, he participated in Dragon TV's "Looking for Stars in 30 Years" series "The Final Work" and "China TV Drama Star Dream Festival-30 Years of Dramatic Change".
20 14 participated in the Mekong case, a detective drama adapted from 20 1 1 Mekong case.