Chow Yun-Fat (Chow?Yun?fat) was born on May 18, 1955, on Lamma Island, Hong Kong, and his place of origin: Kaiping, Guangdong. He is a Chinese movie and television actor, photographer, and a first-class actor.?
Graduated from TVB Artiste Training Course in 1974, he starred in more than 20 dramas including "Man in the Net", "Frenzy" and "Shanghai Tang".
In 1976, he started his career in the movie industry, and in the 1980s, he became a representative of Hong Kong's "violent aesthetics" style of movie with his movies such as "Heroes" and "God of Gamblers", which opened up the genre of gunfighting and gambling movies during the heyday of Hong Kong cinema.
In the 1990s, he was known as "Double Chow Yat Sing" together with Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow.
In 1995, he went to Hollywood. He starred in many different styles of movies such as "Anna and the King" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and was twice the guest of honor at the Oscars.
He left his handprints on the "Central Plaza" in Chinatown, Los Angeles in 1999,
Won the Special Achievement Award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France in 2000,
Became the actor with the most DVDs in the United States with his portrayal of a gunfighter in films such as Bloodshed in 2004,
Has been recognized as the most popular DVD collector in the United States. top three DVD collections in the United States.
In 2005, he was named the No. 1 "Classic TV Drama Star" by Hong Kong netizens;
In 2007, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Asian Excellence Awards Presentation by AZN Television in the United States.
In addition, Chow Yun-Fat is also keen on public welfare, and in 2000, he was selected as one of the seven "Celebrity Heroes of the Planet" by Time Magazine in the United States.
In 2003, he was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the SAR Government.
In 2003, he was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the HKSAR Government. He became the first performer to be included in a secondary school textbook.
In 2006, Chow Yun-Fat officially returned to the Chinese movie industry. He will participate in the ancient costume masterpiece "Red Cliff" directed by John Woo; Zhang Yimou, who opened a new era of Chinese mainland movies, threw an olive branch to him.
In 2007, due to the contract, script and other reasons, Zhou Yunfa officially announced his resignation from the movie "Red Cliff". The much-anticipated re-collaboration between Chow and Wu eventually failed to materialize; however, John Woo talked about it in an interview in Shanghai four years later, saying it was the result of his agent's company and did not hurt his personal feelings.
In the same year, Chow Yun-fat received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian Excellence Awards in the United States, and made cameo appearances in the Hollywood films The Children of Yellowstone and Sea of Spies.
In 2008, Chow Yun-Fat also appeared as the second male lead in the Hollywood film "Seven Dragon Balls: Evolution", directed by Chinese director Huang Yi Yu.
In 2009, he even starred as Confucius, a great thinker in Chinese history, in mainland director Hu Mei's movie "Confucius". The movie was released on the mainland in 2010 and made over 100 million dollars at the box office, which also won him the Huabiao Award.
In the same year, he and Ge You came together for the movie "Let the Bullets Fly".
The movie not only became the top grossing film in the mainland that year, but also set a new record in the mainland with a box office of over 660 million dollars.
Expanded profile:
Chou Yun-Fat
Born in a rural family, he grew up helping his mother with odd jobs to make ends meet.
In 1965, when Chow Yun-Fat was 10 years old, the family moved to Kowloon. During the three years of secondary school, Chow Yun-Fat went to work in an electronics factory every summer vacation, which led to poor eyesight. After graduating from secondary school, his father became seriously ill, Chow Yun Fat did not choose to go on to higher education, and began to work as a casual laborer to earn money to support the family. The hard work and experience at the bottom of the social ladder enriched Chow Yun Fat's life experience and benefited his later acting career.
In 1973, at the age of 18, Chow Yun-Fat saw an advertisement in the newspaper for TVB's Actors' Training Course and went with a friend to apply for the job, ? He was recognized by Chung King Fai, one of the examiners.?
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