1987Nominee
Best Performance
Prison on Fire
Chow Yun-Fat
Actor · Writer
Hong Kong, China
May 18, 1955
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2007Nominee
Best Performance
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2000Nominee
Best Performance
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Career Highlights
1992Highlight
Best Performance
Hard Boiled
1986Highlight
Best Performance
The Seventh Curse
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Prison on Fire
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon