Yuen Qiu
Birthday: 1960-04-19 | Place of Birth: Hong Kong, ChinaYuen Qiu (Chinese: 元秋) (born Cheung Cheun-Nam, 1948) is a Chinese actress and martial artist. 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as 老年梁姐
as Ting Sai-fung
as Shui Sannyang
as Lei Shimu
as Zhen Nihua
as Yuk Bo-fung
as Mona
as Ms Hung
as So Fa
as Restaurant Owner (segment "Stolen Goods")
as Leung's Mother
as Gao Ya Juan
as Sophie, Fat's 1st wife
as Lady Green / Lin Ching-Hsia
