Chow grew up in a farming community on Lamma Island, in a house with no electricity.
Chow started his career in movies in 1976 with Goldig Films.Ĭhow was born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong, to Chow Yung-Wan ( 周容允), who worked on a Shell Oil Company tanker, and Chan Lai-fong ( 陳麗芳), who was a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer. He mainly plays in drama films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. TVB Anniversary Awards – My Most Memorable Male Leading RoleĬhow Yun-fat SBS (born ), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor known for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the action heroic bloodshed films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled, and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
