Chow Yun-fat

Chow Yun-fat (周潤發) , is a Hong Kong actor, who has collaborated with filmmaker and is best known for his work in , , , , , , , , and .
For Disney, he played Sao Feng in the 2007 fantasy adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Chow was born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong, to Chow Yung-wan, who worked on a tanker, and Chan Lai-fong, who was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer. Chow grew up in a farming community, in a house with no electricity. He woke up at dawn each morning to help his mother sell herbal jelly and Hakka tea-pudding on the streets; in the afternoons, he went to work in the fields. His family moved to Kowloon when he was ten. At age 17, Chow left school to help support the family by doing odd jobs including a bellboy, postman, camera salesman, and taxi driver.
After college, Chow responded to a newspaper advertisement, and his actor-trainee application was accepted by TVB, the local television station. He signed a three-year contract with the studio and made his acting debut in soap operas that were exported internationally. He made his film debut in 1976 in various movies produced by Goldig Films, including Hot Blood. Goldig Films was founded and self-funded by Gouw Hiap Kian, who was its chairman and managing director and employed other individuals as movie directors. It produced and distributed over 100 movies from 1972 to 1982. Goldig also invested in properties, including a cinema, as well as financial investments with substantial assets since the 1990s. Chow was identified by Goldig to be an actor before he applied to TVB as a trainee.
==Role==
SaoFeng1-PotCAWE.jpg|Sao Feng(Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End)
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Category:1950s births
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