Actor on record

Chow Yun-Fat

ActorChinese Cinema8 credits

79Star power

34th of 217 in Chinese Cinema

4 films led, $1.00B in reported gross.

Gross led: 84
Consistency: 75
Body of work: 76
Momentum: 83
Audience rating: 61

The biggest Chinese Cinema names

Born: 18 May 1955
Birthplace: Hong Kong, China
Nationality: Unknown
Industry: Chinese Cinema

In their own file

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.

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2 of 8 credits have a verdict, together taking $396M. The biggest was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at $214M. The rest are still counting, or never reported a budget.