Acting
Chow Yun-Fat
Born May 18, 1955 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
6.8
Cold War 1994
2026·Action
6.3
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025·Comedy
5.5
One More Chance
2023·Comedy
6.0
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
2022·Fantasy
7.2
Project Gutenberg
2018·Action
6.5
Duckweed
2017·Comedy
6.3
Cold War II
2016·Action
4.1
From Vegas to Macau III
2016·Action
5.7
Office
2015·Comedy
5.0
From Vegas to Macau II
2015·Comedy
5.2
From Vegas to Macau
2014·Comedy
5.6
The Monkey King
2014·Action
6.4
The Last Tycoon
2012·Drama
5.8
The Assassins
2012·Drama
4.7
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011·Drama
7.8
Let the Bullets Fly
2010·Action
6.1
Shanghai
2010·Drama
5.9
Confucius
2010·Drama
2.9
Dragonball Evolution
2009·Action
6.6
The Children of Huang Shi
2008·Drama
5.6
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
2007·Romance
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The Making of Hard Boiled
2007·Documentary
8.0
The Making of Stranglehold
2007·Documentary
7.3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007·Adventure