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Chow Yun-Fat |
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Male |
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6' 0" |
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HK - Hong Kong |
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| Date of Birth |
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May 18, 1955 |
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Lamma Island, Hong Kong |
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See also:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Biography |
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Chow Yun-Fat (Chinese pinyin: Zhou Rùnfa) (born May 18, 1955 on Lamma Island, Hong Kong) is among a handful of internationally recognized screen actors that Hong Kong has ever produced, along with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Raised on the tiny offshore island of Lamma, Chow spent his childhood in poverty. His life started to change as his application was accepted as an actor-trainee by the local television station, TVB. It didn't take long for Chow to become a household name in Hong Kong following his role in the hit series The Bund in 1980. Success finally came when he teamed up with an then-relatively-unknown director John Woo in the 1986 low-budget action movie A Better Tomorrow, which swept the box offices throughout Asia and established both Chow and Woo as mega stars.
Taking the opportunity, Chow quit TV entirely and dedicated himself to making more 'gun fu' movies. His later films include The Killer (1989), An Autumn's Tale (1988) and Hard Boiled (1992). Being the hottest screen commodity in Asia, Chow was called upon by Hollywood in an attempt to duplicate his success on an international scale. His first two films Replacement Killers (1998) and The Corruptor (1999) were box-office sleepers. His next film Anna and the King (1999) did better, but the success was mostly credited to actress Jodie Foster. Ironically, he receded to a supporting role in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and it became a winner at both the box office and the Oscars.
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