Chow Yun-fat

Chow Yun-fat, SBS (conceived May 18, 1955), already known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong on-screen character. He is best known in Asia for his joint efforts with movie producer John Woo in the chivalrous gore sort movies A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Hard Boiled; and in the West for his parts as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He chiefly plays in emotional movies and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. 

In 2014, Chow was the second-most astounding acquiring on-screen character in Hong Kong, gaining 170 million HKD (21.9 million USD). 

Individual life 

Chow was conceived in Lamma Island, Hong Kong, to a mother who was a housekeeper and vegetable rancher, and a father who dealt with a Shell Oil Company tanker. Chow experienced childhood in a cultivating group on Lamma Island, in a house with no electricity. He woke up at day break every morning to help his mom offer home grown jam and Hakka tea-pudding in the city; in the evenings he went to work in the fields. His family moved to Kowloon when he was ten. At seventeen, he cleared out school to bolster the family by doing odd occupations including bellboy,postman, camera sales representative and cab driver. His life began to change when he reacted to a daily paper notice and his performing artist learner application was acknowledged by TVB, the neighborhood TV channel. He marked a three-year contract with the studio and made his acting introduction. Chow turned into a heartthrob and a natural face in cleanser musical dramas that were sent out universally. 

Chow has been hitched twice; first in 1983, to Candice Yu, a performing artist from Asia Television; the marriage kept going nine months. In 1986, Chow wedded Singaporean Jasmine Tan. The couple have no kids, despite the fact that Chow has a goddaughter, Celine Ng, a previous tyke model for Chickeeduck, McDonald's, Toys'R'Us and different organizations. 

Career 

At the point when Chow showed up in the 1980 TV arrangement The Bund on TVB, it didn't take long for him to end up an easily recognized name in Hong Kong. The arrangement, about the ascent and fall of a hoodlum in 1930s Shanghai, was a hit all through Asia and made Chow a star. 

In spite of the fact that Chow proceeded with his TV achievement, his objective was to wind up an extra large screen performing artist. In any case, his intermittent endeavors into low-spending plan movies were heartbreaking. Achievement at long last came when he collaborated with chief John Woo in the 1986 criminal activity drama A Better Tomorrow, which cleared the crate workplaces in Asia and set up Chow and Woo as megastars. A Better Tomorrow won him his first Best Actor grant at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It was the most noteworthy netting film in Hong Kong history at the time, and set another standard for Hong Kong hoodlum movies. Taking the open door, Chow quit TV completely. With his new picture from A Better Tomorrow, he made some more 'firearm fu' or 'courageous slaughter' movies, for example, 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, a motivation for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. 

Chow might be best known for playing good extreme folks, whether cops or offenders, yet he has additionally featured in comedies like Diary of a Big Man (1988) and Now You See Love, Now You Don't (1992) and sentimental blockbusters, for example, Love in a Fallen City (1984) and An Autumn's Tale (1987), for which he was named best performing artist at the Golden Horse Awards. He united his different personae in the 1989 film God of Gamblers (Du Shen), coordinated by the productive Wong Jing, in which he was by turns smooth charmer, a wide entertainer and an activity saint. The film shocked numerous, turned out to be enormously prevalent, broke Hong Kong's record-breaking film industry record, and generated a progression of betting movies and additionally a few comic continuations featuring Andy Lau and Stephen Chow. The frequently intense disposition and young appearance of Chow Yun-Fat's characters has earned him the handle "Babyface Killer". 

Chow Yun-fat at a celebrity lane occasion in 2007 

The Los Angeles Times announced Chow Yun-Fat "the coolest performing artist in the world."[9] In the mid '90s, Chow moved to Hollywood in an at last unsuccessful endeavor to copy his accomplishment in Asia. His initial two movies, The Replacement Killers (1998) and The Corruptor (1999), were film industry disillusionments. In his next film Anna and the King (1999), Chow collaborated with Jodie Foster, yet the film endured in the cinematic world. Chow acknowledged the part of Li Mu-Bai in the (2000) film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It turned into a victor at both the global film industry and the Oscars. In 2003, Chow returned to Hollywood and featured in Bulletproof Monk. In 2006, he collaborated with Gong Li in the film, Curse of the Golden Flower, coordinated by Zhang Yimou. 

In 2007, Chow played the privateer skipper Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. In any case, his part was excluded when the motion picture was appeared in terrain China, where government blue pencils felt that Chow's character "denounced and embarrassed" Chinese people. 

In the inadequately got film Dragonball Evolution, Chow Yun-fat played Master Roshi.

In 2014, Chow came back to Hong Kong film in "From Vegas to Macau". For the part, he lost 13 kg inside 10 months.

In October 2014, Chow upheld the Umbrella Movement, a social equality development for all inclusive suffrage in Hong Kong. His political position inevitably brought about restriction by the Chinese government.

In February 2015, Chow repeated his part as Ken in the continuation From Vegas to Macau II. He was paid 5 million USD (39 million HKD) for the film.

Book

On June 26, 2008, Chow discharged his first photograph gathering in Hong Kong, which incorporates pictures tackled the arrangements of his movies. Continues from the book's deals were given to Sichuan seismic tremor casualties. Distributed by Louis Vuitton, the books were sold in Vuitton's Hong Kong and Paris stores.