Chow Yun-Fat
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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1955-05-18 · Hong Kong, China
Known for
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) — Captain Sao Feng
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) — Li Mu Bai
- Dragonball Evolution (2009) — Roshi
- Bulletproof Monk (2003) — The Nameless Monk
- Hard Boiled (1992) — Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
- The Killer (1989) — Jong
- Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) — Emperor Ping
- Anna and the King (1999) — King Mongkut
- A Better Tomorrow (1986) — Mark Lee
- The Replacement Killers (1998) — John Lee
- Let the Bullets Fly (2010) — Huang Silang
- A Better Tomorrow II (1987) — Ken Lee
- The Corruptor (1999) — Nick Chen
- The Monkey King (2014) — Jade Emperor
- God of Gamblers' Return (1994) — Ko Chun
- Shanghai (2010) — Anthony Lan-Ting