Chow Yun-Fat

Chow Yun-Fat

Hong Kong actor
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Chow Yun-fat SBS (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 companies at the time.

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Chow Yun-Fat was born on Sunday, 8 May 1955 in Hong Kong, China. His full name at birth was Chow Yun-Fat. He is best known as an actor. Yun-Fat's country of citizenship (nationality) is Chinese. His religion is listed as Buddhist. He is 6' 1" (185 cm) tall with an athletic build. He has dark brown eyes and black hair (color). His net worth is reported to be $100,000,000 US dollars. Chow Yun-Fat is 69 years old and his zodiac star sign is Taurus.

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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
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8 May 1955
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Hong Kong, China
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I was lucky that Andy Tennant changed a lot of the dialogue. The original draft had language the way Rex Harrison speaks, talking in old Oxford English, it was almost like Shakespeare, but Andy modernized it.
  • Tri-lingual, speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
  • Won Taiwan Golden Horse "Best Actor" Awards Two Times: Hong Kong 1941, 1985. An Autumn's Tale, 1987.
  • Attempted suicide over the break-up after 5-year (1978-1983) romance with popular TV star Idy Chan.
  • Chosen one of 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
  • He helped Andy Lau in his movie career, after it almost crashed when he refused to sign a contract with TVB, which made him blacklisted from Hong Kong Television.

Chow Yun-Fat is known for his role in the film The Children of Huang Shi (2008) as Jack (Chen Hansheng).

He is also known for his role in the film Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) as Emperor Ping.

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