Chow Yun-Fat
Acting
- Born:
- 1955-05-18
- Place of birth:
- Hong Kong, China
Biography
Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese: 周潤發, born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the five Hong Kong action heroic bloodshed films: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Once a Thief and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films, the third largest film company at the time.
Known For
Filmography
Intermission
Cold War 1994
Detective Chinatown 1900
The Do Show
One More Chance
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
Project Gutenberg
Duckweed
鲁豫有约一日行
Cold War II
From Vegas to Macau III
Office
From Vegas to Macau II
From Vegas to Macau
The Monkey King
The Last Tycoon
The Assassins
Voice
Beginning of the Great Revival
Let the Bullets Fly
Shanghai
Confucius
Dragonball Evolution
The Children of Huang Shi
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
The Making of Stranglehold
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower'
Curse of the Golden Flower
Waiting Alone
Bulletproof Monk
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Chow Yun Fat Goes Hollywood
The Test of Time: The Genesis of Hard Boiled
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Anna and the King
The Corruptor
The Replacement Killers
Peace Hotel
God of Gamblers' Return
Treasure Hunt
Full Contact
Hard Boiled
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
Prison on Fire II
Once a Thief
Pioneers of Television Gala
God of Gamblers II
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
God of Gamblers
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
Triads: The Inside Story
Everybody Loves Somebody
Wild Search
The Killer
All About Ah-Long
Celebrity Talk Show
City War
Goodbye My Friend