Chow Yun-fat

Chow Yun-fat (born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong actor known for his roles in A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Hardboiled. He also acts in Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End as Sao Feng. He is the actor who portrayed Master Roshi in Dragonball Evolution.
==Biography==
Chow appeared in the 1980 TV series The Bund on TVB. The series, about the rise and fall of a gangster in 1930s Shanghai, was a hit throughout Asia and made Chow a star. Chow’s first movie contract was an exclusive acting contract with Goldig Films.
Although Chow continued his TV success, his goal was to become a film actor. However, his occasional ventures into low-budget films were disastrous. Success finally came when he teamed up with director John Woo in the 1986 gangster action-melodrama A Better Tomorrow, which swept the box offices in Asia and established Chow and Woo as megastars. A Better Tomorrow won him his first Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It was the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong history at the time, and set a new standard for Hong Kong gangster films. Taking the opportunity, Chow quit TV entirely. With his new image from A Better Tomorrow, he made many more 'gun fu' or 'heroic bloodshed' films, such as A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987), Prison on Fire, Prison on Fire II, The Killer (1989), A Better Tomorrow 3 (1990), Hard Boiled (1992) and City on Fire, an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
Chow may be best known for playing honorable tough guys, whether cops or criminals, but he has also starred in comedies like Diary of a Big Man (1988) and Now You See Love, Now You Don't (1992) and romantic blockbusters such as Love in a Fallen City (1984) and An Autumn's Tale (1987), for which he was named Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards. He brought together his disparate personae in the 1989 film God of Gamblers, directed by the prolific Wong Jing, in which he was by turns a suave charmer, a broad comedian, and an action hero. The film surprised many, became immensely popular, broke Hong Kong's all-time box office record, and spawned a series of gambling films as well as several comic sequels starring Andy Lau and Stephen Chow. The often tough demeanor and youthful appearance of Chow's characters has earned him the nickname "Babyface Killer".
In 2007, Chow played the pirate captain Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
In 2014, Chow returned to Hong Kong cinema in From Vegas to Macau
In February 2015, Chow reprised his role as Ken in the sequel From Vegas to Macau II.
==Trivia==
*In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, his part was omitted when the movie was shown in mainland China, where government censors felt that Chow's character "vilified and humiliated" Chinese people.
*Chow has been married two times.
**First was in 1983 where he marries Candice Yu but their marriage lasted only 9 months. Chow would marry Jasmine Tan in 1986 and they have a daughter in 1991.
*He lost 13 kg in 10 months to act in From Vegas to Macau.
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