Chow Yun Fat - Hongkong Actor

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Chow Yun-fat, SBS (born May 18, 1955) is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for "Best Actor" and two Golden Horse Awards for "Best Actor" in Taiwan.

Chow Yun Fat was born in Hong Kong, to a mother who was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer, and a father who worked at a Shell Oil Company tanker.

Of Hakka origins, he grew up in a farming community on Lamma Island in a house with no electricity. He woke up at dawn each morning to help his mother sell herbal jelly and Hakka tea-pudding on the streets and in the afternoons he went to work in the fields. His family moved to Kowloon when he was ten. At seventeen, he quit school to help support the family by doing odd jobs - bellboy, postman, camera salesman, taxi driver.

His life started to change when he responded to a newspaper advertisement and his actor-trainee application was accepted by TVB, the local television station. He signed a three-year contract with the studio and made his acting debut. With his striking good looks and easy-going style, Chow became a heartthrob and a familiar face in soap operas that were exported internationally.

Chow Yun Fat - Hongkong Actor

Chow Yun Fat Profile

* Name: 周潤發 (周润发) / Chow Yun Fat (Zhou Ren Fa)
* Also known as: Fat Gor
* Profession: Actor
* Birthdate: 1955-May-18
* Birthplace: Lamma Island, Hong Kong
* Height: 185cm
* Star sign: Taurus
* Chinese zodiac: Goat
* Blood type: O
* Family: Wife/producer Jasmine Tan (陈萫莲)

TV Series

* The Battle Among The Clans (TVB, 1985)
* The Yangs' Saga (TVB, 1985)
* Police Cadet '85 (TVB, 1985)
* The Smiling, Proud Wanderer (TVB, 1984)
* Angels and Devils (1983)
* Radio Tycoon (TVB, 1983)
* Superpower (TVB, 1983)
* The Fate (TVB, 1982)
* The Legend of Master So (TVB, 1982)
* The Shell Game II (TVB, 1981)
* The Bund (TVB, 1980)
* The Brothers (1980)
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (TVB, 1979)
* God of River Lok (TVB)
* Conflict (TVB)

Movies

* Shanghai (2010)
* Confucius (2010)
* Dragonball Evolution (2009)
* The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
* Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (2007)
* The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006)
* Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
* Bulletproof Monk (2003)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
* Anna and the King (1999)
* The Corruptor (1999)
* The Replacement Killers (1998)
* Hard Boiled (1992)
* A Better Tomorrow 3 (1990)
* The Killer (1989)
* Prison on Fire II (1989)
* A Better Tomorrow (1987)

周潤發，S.B.S.（英语：Chow Yun fat，1955年5月18日－），出生於香港南丫島，籍貫為廣東開平。著名實力派電影和電視演員，獲得三座香港電影金像獎影帝，另外也拿到兩次臺灣金馬獎最佳男主角頭銜。八九十年代，周潤發與多位女星合作過多部電視劇和電影，其中與趙雅芝、鄭裕玲和鍾楚紅的銀幕情侶形象更是膾炙人口、深入民心，1990年代與成龍、周星馳被形容為「雙周一成」，意為香港電影票房的保證。他於1995年赴美國荷里活發展，影藝事業橫跨歐美亞各地。

早年生活

周潤發生於香港南丫島的廣東人家庭，母親是菜農和清潔工，父親在蜆殼石油公司運輸石油，童年時一直要幫補家計，每天替母親拿小吃出售，10歲時全家搬到九龍。他曾於砵蘭街的旺角勞工子弟民權學校和調景嶺鳴遠小學就讀。

17歲他因幫補家計而輟學，做過不同的臨時工，包括酒店服務生、郵差、照相機推銷員、的士司機等。18歲時，周潤發偶然間在報紙上看到無線電視演員訓練班的徵人廣告，便與朋友一同去應徵，順利地被錄取從此展開了演藝事業。