Acting
Chow Yun-Fat
- Born
- May 18, 1955
- Place
- 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.
Filmography
Known for
7.4Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
7.3Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
6.8Anna and the King
1999
6.9Curse of the Golden Flower
2006
7.6The Killer
1989
6.3The Replacement Killers
1998
7.5Hard Boiled
1992
7.4A Better Tomorrow
1986
5.5Bulletproof Monk
2003
6.1The Corruptor
1999
6.8Full Contact
1992
6.0Confucius
2010
6.6The Children of Huang Shi
2008
6.4A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
1989
6.9City on Fire
1987
2.9Dragonball Evolution
2009
6.1Shanghai
2010
7.2God of Gamblers
1989