Yuen Woo-ping
Gender: Male
Born: 1st January 1945 (currently 67 years old)
Nationality: China
Movies: Dance of the Drunk Mantis, Dreadnaught, Drunken Master, Drunken Tai Chi, Fist of Legend, Hero Among Heroes, House of Fury, In the Line of Duty 4: Witness, Iron Monkey, Last Hero in China, Legend of a Fighter, Magnificent Butcher, Mismatched Couples, Red Wolf, Shaolin Drunkard, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Tai Chi 2, Tai Chi Master, The Buddhist Fist, The Legend of Zu, The Miracle Fighters, The Miracle Fighters, The Tai Chi Master, Tiger Cage 2, True Legend, Wing Chun
Yuen Woo-ping (Chinese: 袁和平; pinyin: Yuán Hépíng; born 1945 in Guangzhou, China) is a Chinese martial arts choreographer and film director, renowned as one of the most successful and influential figures in the world of Hong Kong action cinema. He is one of the inductees on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong. Yuen is also a son of Yuen Siu-tien, a renowned martial arts film actor.
Yuen achieved his first directing credit in 1978 on the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, starring Jackie Chan, followed quickly by Drunken Master. The films were smash-hits, launching Jackie Chan as a major film-star, turning Seasonal Films into a major independent production company, and starting a trend towards comedy in martial arts films that continues to the present day.
Yuen went on to work with such figures as Sammo Hung in Magnificent Butcher (1979), Yuen Biao in Dreadnaught (1981), Donnie Yen in Iron Monkey (1993), and Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in Tai Chi Master (1993) and Wing Chun (1994).
Yuen's works, particularly his action choreography on Fist of Legend (1994), attracted the attention of the Wachowski brothers, who hired him as the martial arts choreographer on The Matrix (1999). The success
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