Chow Yun-Fat
Gender: Male
Born: 18th May 1955 (currently 57 years old)
Nationality: China
TV programs: Hotel, Conflict, The Battle Among the Clans, The Legend of Master So, The Bund, The Super Power, The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Yang's Saga, The Radio Tycoon
Movies: A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow 2, Anna and the King, Bulletproof Monk, City on Fire, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Curse of the Golden Flower, Hard Boiled, Once a Thief, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, The Corruptor, The Killer, The Replacement Killers, Why Me?, An Autumn's Tale, Now You See Love, Now You Don't, God of Gamblers Returns, Wild Search, Tiger on Beat, Seventh Curse, All About Ah Long, Full Contact, God of Gamblers, Rich And Famous, The Eighth Happiness, A Better Tomorrow 3, The Children of Huang Shi, The Story of Woo Viet, Prison on Fire II, Prison on Fire, Waiting Alone, Hong Kong 1941, The Postmodern Life of My Aunt, Din lo jing juen, Pirates of the Caribbean films, Dragonball Evolution, Shanghai, Confucius, Love unto Waste, The Head Hunter, Triads: The Inside Story, Treasure Hunt, The Postman Fights Back, Witch from Nepal, A Hearty Response, Fractured Follies, Peace Hotel, The Occupant, City War, 100 Ways to Murder Your Wife, Code of Honor, The Greatest Lover, The Flaming Brothers, Diary of a Big Man, Tragic Hero, Cherry Blossoms: When Tat Fu Was Young, The Romancing Star, Let the Bullets Fly, Women, Love in a Fallen City, The Monkey King, The Postman Strikes Back, Spiritual Love, A Better Tomorrow 2, A Better Tomorrow 2, An Autumn's Tale, An Autumn's Tale, God of Gamblers II, God of Gamblers
Chow Yun-fat, SBS (born May 18, 1955) is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for "Best Actor" and two Golden Horse Awards for "Best Actor" in Taiwan.
Chow was born in Hong Kong, to a mother who was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer, and a father who worked on a Shell Oil Company tanker. Of Hakka origins, he grew up in a farming community on Lamma Island in a house with no electricity. He woke up at dawn each morning to help his mother sell herbal jelly and Hakka tea-pudding on the streets and in the afternoons he went to work in the fields. His family moved to Kowloon when he was ten. At seventeen, he quit school to help support the family by doing odd jobs including bellboy, postman, camera salesman, and taxi driver. His life started to change when he responded to a newspaper advertisement and his actor-trainee application was accepted by TVB, the local television station. He signed a
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