Timmy Xu is a Chinese actor, singer, and songwriter. In 2016, he debuted as the character Bai Luoyin in the Chinese BL web series Addicted. He was the first artist to achieve the top spot on the Billboard China V chart and Mandarin chart within the same week. He was the first solo artist from mainland China to hold a concert in South Korea, and to be officially invited as a guest to the Billboard Music Awards in 2017.
Xu made his comeback to the small screen in 2018 and a year later he was nominated for best actor for his lead role in My Girlfriend. In early 2023, Ping Pong: The Triumph and his role received positive reviews. The character Xu played awarded him Annual Attention Actor and Most Breakout Actor. Moreover, Xu's first foray in performance art was an enormous success. For three consecutive months he performed weekly in a total of 33 plays across nine major mainland Chinese cities in Cao Yu's Thunderstorm and Wan Fang's After Thunderstorm. Xu was praised by Wan Fang for his outstanding performance in interpreting a unique perspective of the character and in her own words "the best Zhou Ping".