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Chow Yun-Fat

Chow Yun-Fat

Birthday: 1955-05-18 | Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Detective Chinatown 1900

as    Bai Xuanling

2023
One More Chance

as    Water Ng

2022
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins

as    Jade Emperor

2018
Project Gutenberg

as    Painter

2016
From Vegas to Macau III

as    Ken Shek / Ko Chun

2016
Cold War II

as    Oswald S.C. Kan

2015
Office

as    Ho Chung Ping

2015
From Vegas to Macau II

as    Ken / Ko Chun

2014
The Monkey King

as    Jade Emperor

2014
From Vegas to Macau

as    Ken

2013
The Last Tycoon

as    Cheng Daqi

2012
The Assassins

as    Chancellor Cao Cao

2011
Beginning of the Great Revival

as    Yuan Shikai

2010
Shanghai

as    Anthony Lan-Ting

2010
Confucius

as    Confucius

2010
Let the Bullets Fly

as    Huang Silang

2009
Dragonball Evolution

as    Master Roshi

2008
The Children of Huang Shi

as    Chen Hansheng

2007
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

as    Zhichang Pan / 潘知常

2006
Curse of the Golden Flower

as    Emperor Ping

2005
Waiting Alone

as    Fa Ge (cameo)

2003
Bulletproof Monk

as    The Nameless Monk

2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

as    Li Mu Bai

1999
Anna and the King

as    King Mongkut

1999
The Corruptor

as    Nick Chen

1998
The Replacement Killers

as    John Lee

1995
Peace Hotel

as    Wong Ah Ping

1994
God of Gamblers' Return

as    Ko Chun / 'The God of Gamblers'