1955 - Today
Chow Yun-fat SBS (born 18 May 1955), previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He has collaborated with filmmaker John Woo in five Hong Kong action films: A Better Tomorrow (1986), A Better Tomorrow II (1987), The Killer (1989), Once a Thief (1991) and Hard Boiled (1992), and in the West for his roles as King Mongkut in Anna and the King (1999), Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chow Yun-fat has received more than 4,545,885 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 55 in 2019). Chow Yun-fat is the 383rd most popular actor (down from 370th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Hong Kong and the 3rd most popular Chinese Actor.
Chow Yun-fat is most famous for his roles in the 1995 Hong Kong action film "Hard Boiled" and the 1997 American film "The Replacement Killers."
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Among actors, Chow Yun-fat ranks 383 out of 9,996. Before him are Diana Rigg, Françoise Dorléac, Curd Jürgens, Roy Scheider, Desmond Llewelyn, and Frances Farmer. After him are Gloria Swanson, Richard Griffiths, Bolo Yeung, Gene Wilder, Vincent Cassel, and Ryan O'Neal.
1938 - 2020
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 377
1942 - 1967
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 378
1915 - 1982
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 379
1932 - 2008
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 380
1914 - 1999
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 381
1913 - 1970
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 382
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 383
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 384
1947 - 2013
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 385
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 386
1933 - 2016
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 387
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 388
1941 - 2023
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 389
Among people born in 1955, Chow Yun-fat ranks 25. Before him are Ludovico Einaudi, Mo Yan, Nina Hagen, Donatella Versace, Guillermo Lasso, and Akira Toriyama. After him are Liu Xiaobo, Marcelo Bielsa, Kris Jenner, Billy Bob Thornton, Dodi Fayed, and Whoopi Goldberg.
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 19
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 20
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 21
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 22
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 23
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 24
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 25
1955 - 2017
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 26
1955 - Present
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 27
1955 - Present
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 28
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.83
Rank: 29
1955 - 1997
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 30
1955 - Present
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 31
Among people born in Hong Kong, Chow Yun-fat ranks 3 out of 106. Before him are Jackie Chan (1954) and Sammo Hung (1952). After him are Leslie Cheung (1956), Ma Ying-jeou (1950), Stephen Chow (1962), Katrina Kaif (1983), Carrie Lam (1957), Andy Lau (1961), Stanley Ho (1921), Yuen Biao (1957), and Tony Leung Chiu-wai (1962).
1954 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 1
1952 - Present
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 2
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 3
1956 - 2003
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 4
1950 - Present
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 5
1962 - Present
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 6
1983 - Present
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 7
1957 - Present
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 8
1961 - Present
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 9
1921 - 2020
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 10
1957 - Present
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 11
1962 - Present
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 12
Among actors born in Hong Kong, Chow Yun-fat ranks 3. Before him are Jackie Chan (1954) and Sammo Hung (1952). After him are Stephen Chow (1962), Katrina Kaif (1983), Andy Lau (1961), Yuen Biao (1957), Tony Leung Chiu-wai (1962), John Lone (1952), Nora Miao (1952), Maggie Cheung (1964), and Yuen Wah (1950).
1954 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 1
1952 - Present
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 2
1955 - Present
HPI: 64.18
Rank: 3
1962 - Present
HPI: 59.03
Rank: 4
1983 - Present
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 5
1961 - Present
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 6
1957 - Present
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 7
1962 - Present
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 8
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 9
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 10
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 11
1950 - Present
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 12