Stephen Chow

Stephen Chow is a well known comedian and Hong Kong superstar , and that is how his nicknames is epitomised. Stephen Chow Sing Chi began as a temporary actor for TVB in early 80s and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films. In 1988 he was invited by director Danny Lee Sau Yin to appear in a film, for which he won the Golden Horse award for best supporting actor award. After that, TVB gave Stephen Chow an opportunity to act in few TV dramas.

Stephen Chow later began to focus his efforts on Hong Kong films. In 1990 he acted in the film "All For The Winner", which grossed over 40 million HK dollars. Two years later, Chow acted in all of the five top-grossing films of 1992, including "All's Well Ends Well"; "Justice"; "My Foot"; "Royal Tramp"; "Royal Tramp II" and "King of Beggars". Stephen Zhou Xing Chi's film "CJ", which began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo was rumoured to have the biggest budget ever for a Chinese film at the time "CJ7", a play on China's successful Senzhou Manned Space Missions, Senzhou 5 and Senzhou 6.

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