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Place of Birth: Lamma Island, Hong Kong
Date of Birth: 18 May, 1955
Ethnicity: Chinese
Chow Yun-fat is a Hong Kong actor. His roles include the John Woo films A Better Tomorrow , The Killer , and Hard Boiled , as well as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , The Replacement Killers , and Anna and the King (1999). He has also been credited as Donald Chow.
Chow was born on Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, the son of Chow Yung-Wan (周容允), who worked on a Shell Oil Company tanker, and Chan Lai-fong (陳麗芳), a cleaning lady and vegetable farmer. Chow grew up in a farming community on the island, with no electricity. When he was ten, his family moved to Kowloon, an urban area in Hong Kong.
He is married to Singaporean Jasmine Tan.