Chow Yun-Fat
Born May 18, 1955 · Hong Kong, China
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Curse of the Golden Flower
Hard Boiled
A Better Tomorrow
The Killer
Let the Bullets Fly
Dragonball Evolution
The Replacement Killers
The Monkey King
Once a Thief
The Seventh Curse
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
God of Gamblers
A Better Tomorrow II
Anna and the King
Detective Chinatown 1900
The Corruptor
God of Gamblers II
Bulletproof Monk
Prison on Fire
Project Gutenberg
Shanghai
Cold War II
City on Fire
Confucius
From Vegas to Macau III
God of Gamblers' Return
The Last Tycoon
The Assassins
All About Ah-Long
The Romancing Star II
Cold War 1994
Beginning of the Great Revival
The Children of Huang Shi
From Vegas to Macau
Full Contact
From Vegas to Macau II
The Eighth Happiness
Tiger on the Beat
Duckweed
Prison on Fire II
Flaming Brothers
City War
An Autumn's Tale
Scared Stiff
Peace Hotel
Spiritual Love
Treasure Hunt
One More Chance
TV Shows
Chinese Folklore
A House is Not a Home
Hotel
鲁豫有约一日行
Look Back at TVB Anniversary Awards Over the Years
The Giants
Celebrity Talk Show
Conflict
Vanity Fair
The Good The Bad The Ugly
The Bund
Everybody Loves Somebody
The Shell Game
The Brothers
The Smiling Proud Wanderer
The Fate
The Radio Tycoon
The Super Power
Mystery Beyond
The Battle Among the Clans
The Yang's Saga
Angels And Devils
Teenager
笑傲江湖 (數碼修復版)
The Maverick
Good Old Times
The Shell Game (II)
The Legend of Master So
The Killer
Hero's Blood Road
This Generation
播音人 (數碼修復版)
The Cheap Detective
The Do Show
Dream Of The Red Chamber
The First Love
蘇乞兒 (數碼修復版)
I Am Woman
Hong Kong Story II
The God of Aqua
C.I.D.(Series 2)
The Landlord
Disco Fever
Man From Hong Kong
Murder of Passion
13
Hero
七女性
畸人列傳
More Movies
The Occupant
Story of Rose
Hong Kong 1941
Tragic Hero
A Hearty Response
Rich and Famous
100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
Witch from Nepal
Office
The Bund
The Test of Time: The Genesis of Hard Boiled
Code of Honor
The Romancing Star
Waiting Alone
Love in a Fallen City
Last Affair
Chow Yun Fat Goes Hollywood
The Postman Strikes Back
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
Now You See Love... Now You Don't
Triads: The Inside Story
The Greatest Lover
Diary of a Big Man
Wild Search
Dream Lovers
The Story of Woo Viet
The Lunatics
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Fractured Follies
Bloody Money
Love Unto Wastes
Massage Girls
Unreleased
Cold War III
God Father
Women
The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile
Why Me?
The Bund Part II
My Will, I Will
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
The Executor
Modern Heroes
When Tat Fu Was Young
Intermission
Soul Ash
Pioneers of Television Gala
Unreleased
Cold War 1995
Pursuit
The Head Hunter
The Reincarnation
The Making of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
Hot Blood
The Missed Date
Learned Bride Thrice Fools the Bridegroom
Miss "O"
The Making of Stranglehold
Joy to the World
Goodbye My Friend
Katanyu Prakasit
Their Private Lives
Bed for Day, Bed for Night
