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Chow Yun-Fat

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1955-05-18 (Age: 71)

Place of Birth

Hong Kong, China

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.

Filmography (109)

⭐ 6.4 Role: Oswald S.C. Kan

Cold War 1994

2026
⭐ 6.3 Role: Bai Xuanling

Detective Chinatown 1900

2025
⭐ 5.5 Role: Water Ng

One More Chance

2023
⭐ 6.0 Role: Jade Emperor

The Monkey King: The Legend Begins

2022
⭐ 7.2 Role: Painter

Project Gutenberg

2018
⭐ 6.5 Role: Self (archive footage)

Duckweed

2017
⭐ 6.3 Role: Oswald S.C. Kan

Cold War II

2016
⭐ 4.1 Role: Ken Shek / Ko Chun

From Vegas to Macau III

2016
⭐ 5.7 Role: Ho Chung Ping

Office

2015
⭐ 5.0 Role: Ken / Ko Chun

From Vegas to Macau II

2015
⭐ 5.2 Role: Ken

From Vegas to Macau

2014
⭐ 5.6 Role: Jade Emperor

The Monkey King

2014
⭐ 6.4 Role: Cheng Daqi

The Last Tycoon

2012
⭐ 5.8 Role: Chancellor Cao Cao

The Assassins

2012
⭐ 4.6 Role: Yuan Shikai

Beginning of the Great Revival

2011