Chow Yun-Fat

Acting · Born 1955-05-18 in 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

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Li Mu Bai
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Captain Sao Feng
• The Killer as Jong
• Hard Boiled as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
• A Better Tomorrow as Mark Lee
• A Better Tomorrow II as Ken Lee
• Let the Bullets Fly as Huang Silang
• Anna and the King as King Mongkut
• Curse of the Golden Flower as Emperor Ping
• The Replacement Killers as John Lee

TV

• The Good The Bad The Ugly
• The Bund as 许文强
• The Yang's Saga as Lui Dong-bun
• Police Cadet as 張竟成 Cheung Ging Sing
• Golden Horse Awards as Self
• Dream Of The Red Chamber as 蒋玉涵
• 鲁豫有约一日行
• The Legend of Master So as 苏灿
• The Smiling Proud Wanderer
• Celebrity Talk Show as 周润发