Chow Yun-Fat
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
as Li Mu Bai 2000
Dragonball Evolution
as Master Roshi 2009
Bulletproof Monk
as The Nameless Monk 2003
Hard Boiled
as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen 1992
The Killer
as Jong 1989
Anna and the King
as King Mongkut 1999
Curse of the Golden Flower
as Emperor Ping 2006
A Better Tomorrow
as Mark Lee 1986
The Replacement Killers
as John Lee 1998
Let the Bullets Fly
as Huang Silang 2010
A Better Tomorrow II
as Ken Lee 1987
The Corruptor
as Nick Chen 1999
The Monkey King
as Jade Emperor 2014
God of Gamblers' Return
as Ko Chun 1994
God of Gamblers
as Ko Chun 1989
Shanghai
as Anthony Lan-Ting 2010