Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1950-04-19 (Age: 76)
Place of Birth
Shandong Province, China
Yuen Qiu
Biography
Yuen Qiu (元秋) is a Hong Kong actress and martial artist born as born Cheung Cheun-Nam (張轉男) in Shandong Province, China. She is an expert of both Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills, and was apprenticed under the same master, Yu Jim-Yuen, as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo at the China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School. Yuen Qiu worked as a stuntwoman and as a night club performer from the late 1960s to early 1970s. She had a small role in the international production, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), portraying a student rescuing Roger Moore as James Bond. As there were few opportunities for stuntwomen and barely any prospects for improvement at the time, she got married in 1974 at the age of 24. After being away from the Hong Kong film industry for nearly 20 years, she landed a role in Kung Fu Hustle only by chance. She was only accompanying a junior woman fellow of the China Drama Academy at the audition but the director's eye was on her. Reports show that Stephen Chow gave her the job after unremitting and persistent persuasion. Yuen is also in a movie called Kung Fu Mahjong, with Yuen Wah.
Filmography (58)
The Shadow's Edge
2025
Second Life
2024
Lost But Win
2024
Kung Fu Stuntmen
2021
Fake President of Dragon Society
2021
All U Need Is Love
2021
Fire Cloud Evil God 2: Eighteen Dragon Palms
2020
The Book of Mythical Beasts
2020
Fire Cloud Evil God: Mask of Chaos
2020
We Are Legends
2019
Europe Raiders
2018
给个理由先之重回鹿鼎
2018
给个理由先之再点秋香
2018
Staycation
2018
