Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
18 May, 1955 (69 years old)
Chow Yun-Fat
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.
Known For
Acting
2018
Project Gutenberg
2017
Duckweed
2016
Cold War II
2016
From Vegas to Macau III
2014
The Monkey King
2012
The Last Tycoon
2012
The Assassins
2010
Let the Bullets Fly
2010
Shanghai
2009
Dragonball Evolution
2008
The Children of Huang Shi
2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2006
Curse of the Golden Flower
2003
Bulletproof Monk
2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
1999
Anna and the King
1999
The Corruptor
1998
The Replacement Killers
1995
Peace Hotel
1994
God of Gamblers' Return
1992
Full Contact
1992
Hard Boiled
1991
Prison on Fire II
1991
Once a Thief
1989
God of Gamblers
1989
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
1989
Wild Search
1989
The Killer
1988
City War
1988
The Diary of a Big Man
1988
Fractured Follies
1988
Tiger on the Beat
1987
A Better Tomorrow II
1987
Prison on Fire
1987
Spiritual Love
1987
Flaming Brothers
1987
An Autumn's Tale
1987
Rich and Famous
1987
Tragic Hero
1987
City on Fire
1986
The Seventh Curse
1986
Love Unto Wastes
1986
A Better Tomorrow
1986
The Lunatics
1986
Dream Lovers
1986
Witch from Nepal
1984
Love in a Fallen City
1983
Last Affair
1983
The Bund
1982
The Postman Fights Back