Chow Yun-Fat

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Hailed as "the coolest actor in the world" by the Los Angeles Times, Chow Yun-Fat is recognized internationally as a hard-boiled action hero who excels in portraying different characters, including cops, gangsters and thieves. He has received the "Movie King" title seven times, including Best Actor wins at the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards. Six films starring Chow were selected to be among the top 100 best Chinese films of all time by Hong Kong Film Awards in 2005.

 

Since his debut in the 1970s, Chow has acted in more than 100 films and about 20 TV drama series, conquering the domestic and international audience with his brilliant acting skills and spectacular personal glamour. Chow, who greatly increased his popularity in Asia with his TV series "Shanghai Bund" in 1980, later focused on movies.

Chow is well-known in Asia for his heroic gangster genre films such as "A Better Tomorrow" (1987), "The Killer" (1989) and "Hard Boiled" (1992). The superstar moved to Hollywood for further development in the mid-1990s. He is best-known to the west for his role as Li Mu-bai in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by renowned Chinese filmmaker Ang Lee. The film proved to be a great winner at both the international box office and the Oscars.

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Born: May 18, 1955, in Lamma Island, Hong Kong

Ancestry: Kaiping, Guangdong

Height: 183cm

Years active: 1974-present

Masterpieces (movies): "A Better Tomorrow " (1986), "A Better Tomorrow II" (1987), "The Autumn's Tale" (1987), "City On Fire" (1987), "Prison On Fire" (1989), "God of Gamblers" (1989), "The Killer" (1989), "Once A Thief" (1989), "A Better Tomorrow III" (1990), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000), "Anna and the King" (1999), "Curse of the Golden Flower" (2006), "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (2007), "The Children of Huang Shi" (2008), "Confucius" (2010), "Let The Bullets Fly" (2010)