Chow Yun Fat

Chow Yun Fat is a Hong Kong Film Award-winning actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films "A Better Tomorrow", "The Killer", and "Hard-Boiled"; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-Bai in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for "Best Actor" and two Golden Horse Awards for "Best Actor" in Taiwan. On June 26, 2008, Chow released his first photo collection in Hong Kong, which includes pictures taken on the sets of his films. Proceeds from sales of the book were donated to Sichuan, earthquake victims. Published by Louis Vuitton, the books were sold in Vuitton's Hong Kong and Paris stores.

It did not take long for Chow to become a household name in Hong Kong following his role in the hit series "The Bund" in 1980. "The Bund", about the rise and fall of a gangster in 1930s Shanghai, made him a star. It was one of the most popular TV series ever made in Hong Kong and was a hit throughout Asia. Chow may be best known for playing honourable tough guys, The Los Angeles Times proclaimed Chow Yun-Fat "the coolest actor in the world." Being one of the biggest stars in Hong Kong, Chow moved to Hollywood in the mid '90s in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to duplicate his success in Asia.   In the upcoming movie "Dragonball Evolution", scheduled for release in April 2009, Chow Yun-Fat will play Master Roshi.

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