Won Hong Kong Academy "Best Actor" Awards Three Times: A Better Tomorrow, 1987. City On Fire, 1988, All About Ah Long, 1990.
Won Taiwan Golden Horse "Best Actor" Awards Two Times: Hong Kong 1941, 1985. An Autumn's Tale, 1987.
Won Asian Pacific Festival "Best Actor" Award for Hong Kong 1941, 1985.
Chow Yun-Fat was born of the Haka (aka Ha Ka) race, an ethnic group from China that has moved from one region to another without taking up permanent residence since the ancient times. The Haka dialect is now the second most popular dialect in Taiwan.
CineAsia, the Asian Theatre Owners Convention, named Chow the Star of the Decade.
Turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix(1999)
Chosen one of 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
Before going to work on a movie each day, he goes to the nearest market and buys some fresh fruit.
Sponsors a lot of charity events such as,"National Wildlife" and many others.
Quite tall by Chinese standards, he was often a head taller than his co-stars in his Hong Kong films, female or male.
Chow spent his childhood in poverty.
He once admitted to a Hong Kong reporter that his ultimate goal is to win an Oscar as an actor.
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.
He is best known for playing honorable tough guys, whether cops or criminals.
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