Chow Yun-Fat
Biography
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
Intermission
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Cold War 1994
2026
as Oswald S.C. Kan
Detective Chinatown 1900
2025
as Bai Xuanling
One More Chance
2023
as Water Ng
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
2022
as Jade Emperor
Project Gutenberg
2018
as Painter
Duckweed
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Cold War II
2016
as Oswald S.C. Kan
From Vegas to Macau III
2016
as Ken Shek / Ko Chun
Office
2015
as Ho Chung Ping
From Vegas to Macau II
2015
as Ken / Ko Chun
From Vegas to Macau
2014
as Ken
The Monkey King
2014
as Jade Emperor
The Last Tycoon
2012
as Cheng Daqi
The Assassins
2012
as Chancellor Cao Cao
Beginning of the Great Revival
2011
as Yuan Shikai
Let the Bullets Fly
2010
as Huang Silang
Shanghai
2010
as Anthony Lan-Ting
Confucius
2010
as Confucius
Dragonball Evolution
2009
as Roshi
The Children of Huang Shi
2008
as Chen Hansheng
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
2007
as Zhichang Pan / 潘知常
The Making of Hard Boiled
2007
The Making of Stranglehold
2007