1974 graduated from TVB artist training class and starred in more than 20 dramas such as Man in the Net, Frenzy and Shanghai Beach. From 65438 to 0976, he entered the film industry. In the 1980s, he began to shoot movies and gambling movies in the heyday of Hong Kong movies with films such as Heroes and Gamblers, and became a representative figure of Hong Kong's "violent aesthetics" style movies. In 1990s, Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow were called "two weeks 10%". 1995 Go to Hollywood for development. He has starred in Anna and the King, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and many other films with different styles, and served as Oscar winner twice. 1999 left his handprint in the "Central Square" of China City, LA, and won the special achievement award of Deauville Asian Film Festival in 2000. In 2004, he became the top three actors in the United States with the largest collection of his DVDs because of his gunman image in movies such as Hot Blood Man. In 2005, it was rated as the first place in the "classic TV drama niche" by Hong Kong netizens; In 2007, he won the lifetime achievement award of "Asian Outstanding Achievement Award" awarded by AZN TV in the United States.
In addition, Chow Yun Fat is also keen on public welfare undertakings. In 2000, he was selected as one of the seven "celebrity heroes of the earth" by Time magazine. In 2003, it was awarded the silver bauhinia star by the SAR Government. In the same year, his struggle was written into the Chinese textbook for the first year of middle school published by Si Qi Publishing House. Become the first artist to be included in middle school textbooks.
Early experience
Chow Yun Fat was born in a rural family and helped his mother to do odd jobs to supplement the family. She lives a poor life, but she also enjoys it. 1989 participated in "Nobody Defends Tonight" hosted by David Henry Hwang, Ni Kuang and Cai Lan, and made a happy comparison between Hou Hsiao-hsien's masterpiece "Childhood Past" and his own childhood. 1955 18 Born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong on May 8th, he is a national first-class actor, a top superstar in China and an international superstar. He was the first China actor to write his personal struggle experience into a middle school textbook. He is known as "the god of acting" and "the coordinate of an era".
1965, when Chow Yun Fat 10 was old, his family moved to Kowloon. During his three years in middle school, Chow Yun Fat worked in an electronics factory every summer vacation, so his eyesight was poor. After graduating from high school, his father was seriously ill, so Chow Yun Fat had no choice but to go to school and began to work as a temporary worker to earn money to support his family. Chow Yun Fat's hard work and the experience of the lower class enriched his life experience, which is beneficial to his future acting career.
1973, 18-year-old Chow Yun Fat saw an advertisement for TVB in the newspaper. He applied with his friends, but the judges reluctantly gave up. Fortunately, Zhong Jinghui, one of the examiners, appreciated this and persuaded others to accept Chow Yun Fat by one vote.
Performance experience
Chow Yun Fat 1974, Chow Yun Fat successfully graduated from the training course. After a short walk-on career, Chow Yun Fat got a chance to perform.
1975, Chow Yun Fat played a supporting role in the film "Jianghu Boys", followed by "North and South", which stood out in these two plays.
1976, 128 TV series "frenzy" was filmed and broadcast. Later, Chow Yun Fat appeared in many TV series, such as Struggle, Brave Man, Netman, Family and so on. Among them, Zheng Yuling's cooperation with Wonder Man in the Net, Family, Fire Phoenix and Crocodile Pond has made them one of the classic Hong Kong film lovers.
Chow Yun Fat's "Shanghai Beach" stills 1980, 25 episodes of TV series "Shanghai Beach" were broadcast on wireless TV stations, which set a very high audience rating. In this play, Chow Yun Fat plays the contradictory, hesitant and cold Xu Wenqiang.
198 1 year, the film "The Story of Hu Yue" directed by Xu Anhua, director of Hong Kong New Wave, was nominated for the best film in the first Academy Awards and won the best screenplay award, and Chow Yun Fat began to attract the attention of the film industry.
1984, Chow Yun Fat played the role of Ye Jianfei in Waiting for Dawn by academic director Po-Chih Leong, and won both the Asia-Pacific Film Festival and the Taiwan Golden Horse Award. With this role and 1985 starring "Women's Heart", he was nominated for the Best Actor Award twice.
1986 played his brother Mark in the film "The True Color of Heroes" directed by John Woo, which broke the box office record of Hong Kong movies and created the film trend of gangster hero movies, and Mark became the idol of fans. Chow Yun Fat also won the first Oscar for Best Actor.
1987 won the Golden Horse Award in Taiwan for his film "Fairy Tales in Autumn", and won the Best Film Award at this year's Academy Awards, ranking fifth at the annual box office. In the same year, he directed The Dragon and Tiger Storm with Lin Lingdong. Lin Lingdong became the best director of the Oscar for his films; Another work, Prison Storm and Prison Storm 2 The Fugitive, was jointly directed by Lin Lingdong, in which Chow Yun Fat played Zhong Tianzheng, and was nominated for best film in cooperation with Tony Leung Ka Fai, Roy Cheung, He Jiaju and Huang Guangliang, ranking second in the annual blockbuster.
In the Hong Kong Golden Awards of 1988, Chow Yun Fat even nominated the best actor in three films: Autumn Fairy Tale, Dragon and Tiger Storm and Prison Storm, competing with three different roles, and finally won the role of Gao Qiu in Dragon and Tiger Storm; The Motion Picture Association of America also awarded him the Asian Outstanding Actor Award for this film, and his total box office performance this year reached1.300 million Hong Kong dollars. In the same year, Eight Stars Good News, co-produced with Du Qifeng, won the box office championship in the whole year. The sissy image played by Chow Yun Fat, together with Diary of a Man and Lucky Star, became a Chow Yun Fat classic comedy that fans liked.
1989, released by gamblers. Gambling God is another screen role created by Chow Yun Fat. Gambling God AG, together with A Lang in A-Lang's Story, became the best actor in two works nominated by Chow Yun Fat 1990 Hong Kong Academy Awards, and won the third golden heroine in the Academy Awards.
1989, Chow Yun Fat and John Woo filmed their most famous classic film, Hot Blood Man. This film is not only the pinnacle of Wu's violent aesthetics, but also makes the image of a screen gunman widely circulated in Europe and America.
1994 The birth of "Gambling God 2" brought a satisfactory end to the gambling craze in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1990s. Among them, Hard Detective with John Woo was rated as the 9th most influential action movie and the 8th1best cult movie by Entertainment Weekly. Chow Yun Fat's role in the film was also rated as "the 33rd greatest movie role".
At the end of 1995, at the meeting with many Hollywood directors and stars in Los Angeles, Chow Yun Fat said in his speech: "As a film actor, the greatest pleasure is of course to cooperate with other filmmakers on a larger scale. When I came to the United States, I first wanted to know more and I was willing to continue filming. " Before going to America this time, Chow Yun Fat donated all the 16 bottles he had acquired in the past to the Hong Kong Film Archive. This move shows his determination to start from scratch; Knowing that past achievements can't represent future success, he spent three years learning English, trying to understand and accept the Hollywood shooting method.
1998, Chow Yun Fat's Hollywood debut "replacement killers" was released. This film continues his image as a screen shooter, using many iconic techniques of Hong Kong films, such as slow motion. However, the word-of-mouth and box office of movies are not as good as expected. When introducing the film, German Film Magazine said: "Director antoine fuqua didn't give full play to this emotion, but used too many unscrupulous and kitsch action scenes. This kind of empty action scene is difficult to impress Chow Yun Fat's first American performance. " In the same year, the mayor of Chicago named 65438+ 10/2 "Chow Yun Fat Day" in recognition of his contribution to the film industry and won the Cartier Outstanding Achievement Award.
1999, Malaysian media selected the 20th century China TV series 100, and Chow Yun Fat's works were selected into nine films, among which "Shanghai Beach" topped the list. In the same year, TVB selected the five most memorable TV programs "Shanghai Beach" as the second place (the variety show "Happy Tonight" ranked first). At the same time, Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng were elected as my most memorable leading actor and heroine respectively.
Oliver stone, a famous Hollywood director, was the producer of The Edge of War, which was released on 1999, but the box office did not improve. Chow Yun Fat plays a China policeman who is both just and evil. The description of the Chinese community in the film has aroused controversy among local Chinese. In the same year, he took over the A-class literary epic Anna and the King from 20th Century Fox Company, hoping to stage a century romance with Jodie Foster, a two-time Oscar winner and a Hollywood genius, under the background of cultural differences, kingship and special status. Chow Yun Fat plays King Kong of Thailand.
Stills of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Chow Yun Fat In 2000, he won ten Oscar nominations and four awards for his film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Chow Yun Fat herself, as the leading actor Li Mubai, was invited to be the Oscar winner again, and won the second Asian American Film and Television Award and the special achievement award of the French Douville Film Festival, becoming the sexiest star of People magazine and appearing on the covers of Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly.
In 2003, he was awarded the silver bauhinia star by the Hong Kong SAR Government; In the same year, Chow Yun Fat's struggle experience entered the teaching materials of Hong Kong middle schools; The movie "Bulletproof Monk" was released.
In 2004, the University of Hong Kong ranked first among the most popular actors in the "2004 Hong Kong Entertainment Vote".
In 2005, at the invitation of gold medal producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Chow Yun Fat participated in the production of Disney's magical masterpiece Pirates of the Caribbean: The End of the World, playing Shao Feng, the pirate king of Singapore, and playing against international superstars such as Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. In the same year, at the Hong Kong Film and Television Entertainment Expo, Chow Yun Fat won the "Most Unforgettable Movie Role Award" for his role as Mark, which was selected by netizens, showing his influence on Hong Kong society.
In 2006, Chow Yun Fat officially returned to China film circle. Will participate in Wu Yusen's masterpiece "Red Cliff"; Zhang Yimou, who initiated a new era of Chinese mainland film, extended an olive branch to him.
In 2007, due to contract, script and other reasons, Chow Yun Fat officially announced his withdrawal from the film Red Cliff. The much-anticipated cooperation between Zhou and Wu failed to materialize. However, when John Woo was interviewed in Shanghai four years later, he talked about this matter, saying that it was the result led by the brokerage company and did not hurt personal feelings. In the same year, Chow Yun Fat accepted the lifetime achievement award awarded to him by the Asian American Outstanding Achievement Award ceremony; He also made guest appearances in Hollywood movies "Children of Yellowstone" and "Storm of the Spy Sea".
In 2008, Chow Yun Fat also participated in the Hollywood film Dragon Ball: Evolution directed by China director Huang Yiyu.
Chow Yun Fat's "Let Bullets Fly" Stills In 2009, he played Confucius, a great thinker in the history of China, in the film "Confucius" directed by Hu Mei in the Mainland. The film was released in the mainland on 20 10, and achieved a good result of over 100 million box office, which also won him the China Watch Award. In the same year, he and Ge You got together in the movie Let the Bullets Fly. This film not only became the mainland box office champion of that year, but also set a new record for the mainland box office with more than 660 million box office results.
20 12 June, Chow Yun Fat became the last guest of the 15th Shanghai International Film Festival, and received the trophy of China Film Outstanding Contribution Award from Jackie Chan. In the same year, the film "Tongquetai" was released in the National Day file.
20 14 On the first day of the Lunar New Year, two films, The Journey to the West and Macau Fengyun, were released in Chow Yun Fat at the same time. Chow Yun Fat successfully played two different roles, namely "Magic Hand" Yijian Shi and the Three Realms Supreme Jade Emperor. During the Spring Festival, the two films earned 65.438+0.5 billion yuan at the box office, and the two films also achieved good box office results overseas. In Storm in Macau, Chow Yun Fat abandoned his former composure and imperial demeanor, and played a "magician" Yijian Shi with rich facial expressions, gags and stunts. He is a complete old urchin.
Macau Fengyun 2, released on the first day of the lunar new year's day on 20 15, followed the style of the first film. There are many places in the film to pay tribute to the past Hong Kong-made films, and there are even guest stars such as Andy Lau, John Chiang and Chen Baixiang. The film earned 980 million yuan in the mainland box office, becoming the champion of the Spring Festival, and Hong Kong and Malaysia were also the box office champions in the same period. At the end of August, the movie "Chill 2" started in Hong Kong, and Chow Yun Fat confirmed the guest appearance. In the same year, the romantic comedy movie "Gorgeous Office Workers" starring Tang Wei and Eason Chan will be released on September 2nd.
Personal life
family member
Chow Yun Fat's ancestral home is Kaiping, Guangdong. His father Zhou, mother and grandmother are all from Dongguan, Guangdong. There are four brothers and sisters, and Chow Yun Fat is the third in the family. Chow Yun Fat's mother was called Mafa by the Hong Kong media, and Chow Yun Fat was very filial to her mother. She used to take her mother swimming every morning to treat her asthma. She has a good relationship with her mother, and she won't miss every scene of her son. At the 2008 World Outstanding Chinese Award and the Honorary Doctor Award Ceremony of Newcastle University in the United States, Mafa was awarded the reputation of "Outstanding Chinese Mother". [7]
marry
Chow Yun Fat and Chen Yulian 1976 Chow Yun Fat admitted that they fell in love with Cora Miao, their rival in the play, because they filmed Fury, but it ended in vain. 1979, Chow Yun Fat fell in love with Chen Yulian, another female artist of wireless TV station, and broke up at the end of 1983.
Chow Yun Fat was married twice. One is to be with his ex-wife Yu Anan.1On February 8th, 983, Chow Yun Fat, who broke up with Chen Yulian, reported that she had married female artist Yu Anan Lightning, but the marriage only lasted for nine months. The following year, the relationship between Chow Yun Fat and his wife Chen Huilian (then named Chen Huilian) was exposed, and they got married on1June 5, 987.
Photography hobby
From actors to photographers, Chow Yun Fat once held a photo exhibition called "Black and White Feelings" with nine photographers in 2004. At that time, he provided six photos, including Guan Di statue and fishing village.
Chow Yun Fat
In 2009, he and his good friend Huang Guiquan co-organized a black-and-white photo exhibition entitled "Impression of Hong Kong", and exhibited 4 1 photo of Hong Kong citizens' life taken after 2004.
On 20 14 12 13, two mainland netizens met Chow Yun Fat in central. He has always been responsive to his fans' photo requests and took photos with them on his mobile phone.
Heritage donation
Chow Yun Fat said that he would donate 99% of his property. Chow Yun Fat and Chen Huilian have been married for 27 years and have no children. They will follow the example of Bill Gates and Buffett and donate 99% of their property to public welfare after their death.