Chow Yun-Fat
Acting
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.
Known for
2026Cold War 1994
Oswald S.C. Kan
2025Detective Chinatown 1900
Bai Xuanling
2023One More Chance
Water Ng
2022The Monkey King: The Legend Begins
Jade Emperor
2018Project Gutenberg
Painter
2017Duckweed
Self (archive footage)
2016From Vegas to Macau III
Ken Shek / Ko Chun
2016Cold War II
Oswald S.C. Kan
2015From Vegas to Macau II
Ken / Ko Chun
2015Office
Ho Chung Ping
2014The Monkey King
Jade Emperor
2014From Vegas to Macau
Ken
2012The Last Tycoon
Cheng Daqi
2012The Assassins
Chancellor Cao Cao
2011Beginning of the Great Revival
Yuan Shikai
2010Confucius
Confucius
2010Shanghai
Anthony Lan-Ting
2010Let the Bullets Fly
Huang Silang
2009Dragonball Evolution
Master Roshi
2008The Children of Huang Shi
Chen Hansheng
2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Captain Sao Feng
2007The Postmodern Life of My Aunt
Zhichang Pan / 潘知常
2007The Making of Hard Boiled
2006Curse of the Golden Flower
Emperor Ping
