Loading ...Firstname: Yun-Fat
Lastname: Chow
AKA: Zhou ,Runfa
Nationality: Chinese
Religion: Buddhism
Astrology Asian: Sheep
Western: Leo
Bloodtype: A
Eyes color: Black
Hair color: Black
Language: Chinese
Country: Hong kong
Currently Living In Hong kong
Career
Chow Yun Fat was born in Lama Island in 1955. He left the island at 16 for the Kowloon Peninsula, where he drifted from from job to job – bell boy, waiter and many others before landing work as an extra at Hong Kong´s largest TV company, TVB.
It did not take long for Chow to become a household name in Hong Kong following his role in the hit series The Bund in 1980. It was one of the most popular TV series ever made in Hong Kong . His occasional ventures onto the big screens with low-budget films, however, were disastrous. Success finally came when he stared in the 1986 gangster action-melodrama A Better Tomorrow, which swept the box offices in Asia and established Chow and Woo as megastars. A Better Tomorrow won him his first Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. With his new image from A Better Tomorrow, he made many more ‘gun fu’ or ‘heroic bloodshed’ films, such as A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987), Prison on Fire, Prison on Fire II, The Killer (1989), A Better Tomorrow 3 (1990), Hard Boiled (1992) and City on Fire an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.
Chow may be best known for playing honorable tough guys, whether cops or criminals, but he also starred in comedies like Diary of a Big Man (1988) and Now You See Love, Now You Don’t (1992) and romantic blockbusters such as Love in a Fallen City (1984) and An Autumn’s Tale (1987), for which he was named best actor at the Golden Horse Awards. He brought together his disparate personae in the 1989 film God of Gamblers (Du Shen), in which he was by turns suave charmer, broad comedian and action hero. The film surprised many, became immensely popular
Chow moved to Hollywood in the mid ’90s in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to duplicate his success in Asia. His first two films, The Replacement Killers (1998) and The Corruptor (1999), were box office disappointments. In his next film Anna and the King (1999), Chow took advantage of it by accepting the role of Li Mu-Bai in the (2000) film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It became a winner at both the international box office and the Oscars. In 2003, Chow came back to Hollywood and starred in Bulletproof Monk in yet another Asian stereotyped role of a martial art expert. In 2006, he teamed up with Gong Li in the film, Curse of the Golden Flower, directed by Zhang Yimou.
Chow had often wished to be regarded as a serious dramatic actor in Hollywood. Unfortunately, he often landed in roles that stereotyped him as an Asian action hero.
Filmography
| Learned Bride Thrice Fools Bridegroom (1976) |
| Massage Girls (1976) |
| The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile (1976) |
| Hot Blood (1977) |
| Their Private Lives (1978) |
| Miss O (1978) |
| See-Bar (1980) |
| Joy to the World (1980) |
| Police Sir (1980) |
| The Executioner (1981) |
| The Story of Woo Viet (1981) |
| The Postman Fights Back (1982) |
| The Bund Part 1 (1983) |
| The Bund Part 2 (1983) |
| Blood Money (1983) |
| The Headhunter (1983) |
| The Last Affair (1983) |
| Love in a Fallen City (1984) |
| The Occupant (1984) |
| Hong Kong 1941 (1984) |
| Women (1985) |
| Why Me? (1985) |
| Lost Romance (1986) |
| Witch from Nepal (1986) |
| Dream Lovers (1986) |
| The Missed Date (1986) |
| 100 Ways to Murder Your Wife (1986) |
| The Lunatics (1986) |
| A Better Tomorrow (1986) |
| Love Unto Waste (1986) |
| A Hearty Response (1986) |
| The Seventh Curse (1986) |
| You Will I Will (1986) |
| Blacklist (1986) |
| City on Fire (1987) |
| Tragic Hero (1987) |
| Code of Honour (1987)[cameo] |
| Scared Stiff (1987) |
| Rich and Famous (1987) |
| The Romancing Star (1987) |
| An Autumn’s Tale (1987) |
| Flaming Brothers (1987) |
| Spiritual Love (1987) |
| Prison on Fire (1987) |
| A Better Tomorrow II (1987) |
| The Eighth Happiness (1988) |
| Tiger on Beat (1988) |
| Diary of a Big Man (1988) |
| Fractured Follies (1988) |
| The Greatest Lover (1988) |
| Cherry Blossoms (1988) |
| Goodbye, Hero (1988) |
| City War (1988) |
| All About Ah Long (1989) |
| Wild Search (1989) |
| The Killer (1989) |
| Triads: The Inside Story (1989) |
| A Better Tomorrow III (1989) |
| God of Gamblers (1989) |
| The Fun, the Luck, and the Tycoon (1990) |
| Once a Thief (1991) |
| Prison on Fire 2 (1991) |
| Now You See Love, Now You Don’t (1992) |
| Hard Boiled (1992) |
| Full Contact (1992) |
| Treasure Hunt (1994) |
| God of Gamblers’ Return (1994) |
| Peace Hotel (1995) |
| The Replacement Killers (USA 1998) |
| The Corrupter (USA 1999) |
| Anna and the King (USA 1999) |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) |
| Bulletproof Monk (USA 2003) |
| Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) |
| The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006) |
| Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (USA 2007) |
| The Children of Huang Shi (2008) |
| Dragonball: Evolution (2009) |
| Shanghai (2009) |
| Confucius (2010) |
