Chow Yun-Fat

Chow Yun-Fat

5/18/1955 (71 years old)Hong Kong, China

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 (163 titles)

Cold War 19946.8Movie

Cold War 1994

Oswald S.C. Kan · 2026

Detective Chinatown 19006.3Movie

Detective Chinatown 1900

Bai Xuanling · 2025

The Do ShowShow

The Do Show

2023

One More Chance5.5Movie

One More Chance

Water Ng · 2023

The Monkey King: The Legend Begins6.0Movie

The Monkey King: The Legend Begins

Jade Emperor · 2022

Project Gutenberg7.2Movie

Project Gutenberg

Painter · 2018

Duckweed6.5Movie

Duckweed

Self (archive footage) · 2017

鲁豫有约一日行4.0Show

鲁豫有约一日行

2016

Cold War II6.3Movie

Cold War II

Oswald S.C. Kan · 2016

From Vegas to Macau III4.1Movie

From Vegas to Macau III

Ken Shek / Ko Chun · 2016

Office5.7Movie

Office

Ho Chung Ping · 2015

From Vegas to Macau II5.0Movie

From Vegas to Macau II

Ken / Ko Chun · 2015

From Vegas to Macau5.2Movie

From Vegas to Macau

Ken · 2014

The Monkey King5.6Movie

The Monkey King

Jade Emperor · 2014

The Last Tycoon6.4Movie

The Last Tycoon

Cheng Daqi · 2012

The Assassins5.8Movie

The Assassins

Chancellor Cao Cao · 2012

VoiceShow

Voice

2012

Beginning of the Great Revival4.7Movie

Beginning of the Great Revival

Yuan Shikai · 2011

Let the Bullets Fly7.8Movie

Let the Bullets Fly

Huang Silang · 2010

Shanghai6.1Movie

Shanghai

Anthony Lan-Ting · 2010

Confucius5.9Movie

Confucius

Confucius · 2010

Dragonball Evolution2.9Movie

Dragonball Evolution

Master Roshi · 2009

The Children of Huang Shi6.6Movie

The Children of Huang Shi

Chen Hansheng · 2008

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt5.6Movie

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

Zhichang Pan / 潘知常 · 2007

The Making of Hard BoiledMovie

The Making of Hard Boiled

2007

The Making of Stranglehold8.0Movie

The Making of Stranglehold

2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End7.3Movie

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Captain Sao Feng · 2007

Movie

Secrets Within: Inside Look at 'Curse of the Golden Flower'

Self · 2007

Curse of the Golden Flower6.9Movie

Curse of the Golden Flower

Emperor Ping · 2006

Waiting Alone6.8Movie

Waiting Alone

Fa Ge (cameo) · 2005