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Chow Yun-Fat profile
Actor

Chow Yun-Fat

Acting

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Acting credits

154

Prolific

Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

4.0

Moderate attention

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Movies: 106Series: 48Crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 1619

IMDb ID: nm0000334

Known for: Acting

Born: May 18, 1955

Age: 70

Place of birth: Hong Kong, China

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1962 - 2026

Years active: 65

Average TMDB rating: 6.35

Wikidata: Q181425

Also known as

发哥 • 小马哥 • Fat Tsai • Yun-fat Chow • چو یون فا • Donald Chow • Aman Chow • Chow Yun-Fatt • Chow Yuen-Fat • Zhou Runfa

Other jobs

Songs (1)Story (1)Writer (1)

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.

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