Biography for
Chow Yun Fat

Chow Yun Fat, one of the most influential movies stars in Hong Kong.   Chow Yun Fat has starred in many many films including Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon.

Chow Yun Fat was born in 1955 in Lamma Island in Hong Kong.  Chow Yun Fat family was originally from Mainland China.  The whole family moved to Hong Kong in 1965.

In 1973, TVB Hong Kong, the main television station in Hong Kong, organized actor training courses to attract young talents.   Chow Yun Fat responded to the call and started his acting career

TVB was run by Sir Run Run Shaw, a TV and movies tycoon in Hong Kong.  Sir Run Run Shaw also owns Shaw Brothers

Since then, Chow Yun Fat was acting for a few years at TVB as an actor which he starred on a number of TV programmes.

He later on starred on the film Shanghai Tan as Hui Man Keung a crime ring leader in Shanghai.  His film was very well received.   Then his career started to take flight.

He received a number of Best Actor awards in the asia pacific region including the Taiwan Golden Horse Award.

One of the most acclaimed film of Chow Yun Fat is "A Better Tomorrow", in chinese is the "style of hero".  He casted a very successful image for many to imitate and resulted in huge increase of sales for mobile phones and long men's coat (which he used a lot in the film)

After acting on about 70+ films, whichmany were very well remembered, Chow Yun Fat left for Hollywood.   His one last very successful film in Hong Kong was the "Peace Hotel".

In Hollywood, Chow Yun Fat casted in The Replacement Killer with Mira Sorvino, The corrupter with Mark Wahlberg, Anna and the King with Jody Foster and then Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon with Michelle Yang