
Stephen Chow
Known for ActingBorn 1962-06-22 (age 63)Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Stephen Chow Sing-Chi (Chinese: 周星馳) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, actor, and producer. Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong on 22 June 1962 to Ling Po Yee, an alumna of Guangzhou Normal University, and Chow Yik Sheung, an immigrant from Ningbo, Zhejiang. Chow has an elder sister named Chow Man Kei and a younger sister named Chow Sing Ha. Chow's given name "Sing-chi" derives from Tang dynasty Chinese poet Wang Bo's essay Preface to the Prince of Teng's Pavilion.After his parents divorced when he was seven, Chow was raised by his mother. Chow attended Heep Woh Primary School, a missionary school attached to the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China in Prince Edward Road, Kowloon Peninsula. When he was nine, he saw Bruce Lee's film The Big Boss, which inspired him to become a martial arts star. Chow entered San Marino Secondary School, where he studied alongside Lee Kin-yan. After graduation, he was accepted to TVB's acting classes. Chow began his career as an extra for Rediffusion Television. He later joined TVB in 1981. He was drawn to attention hosting the TVB Jade children's program 430 Space Shuttle. Chow made his film Final Justice in 1988, which won him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 25th Golden Globe Awards. Chow shot to stardom in The Final Combat. The following decade, he appeared in more than 40 films. Fight Back to School became Hong Kong's top-grossing film of all time. In 1994, he began directing films, starting with From Beijing with Love. In the latter half of the 1990s, Chow becomes very famous in China, he became a legend and the Stephen Chow Phenomenon. In 2001, his film Shaolin Soccer grossed over US$50 million worldwide. Chow won Best Director and Best Actor at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, and the film went on to garner additional awards including a Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was the highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong at the time, grossing $46 million in the Asia region. In 2004, his film Kung Fu Hustle grossed over US$106 million worldwide. Chow also won Best Director at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival as well as over twenty international awards. Critics as well as film stars such as comedian Bill Murray said that the film was the supreme achievement of modern comedy that had outshone any preexisting form of American comedy, including Murray's directorial work. His film CJ7 began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo. In August 2007, the film was given the title CJ7, a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. CJ7 became the highest-grossing film of all time in Malaysia. For his work in comedy, he has received praise from notable institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, who called him the King of Comedy. Stephen Chow has directed multiple classic films since the 1990s. In 2013, his film Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons became the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time. In 2016, his film The Mermaid broke numerous box office records, and became the highest-grossing film of all time in China.Read more
Movies & web series
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Angels And Devils
1983 · Series
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Golden Horse Awards
1962 · Series
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The King of Stand-up Comedy
2024 · Series
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Behind Silk Curtains
1988 · Series
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The Legend of the Condor Heroes
1983 · Series
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It Runs in the Family
1990 · Series
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The Justice of Life
1989 · Series
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My Father's Son
1988 · Series
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Beyond the Rose Garden
1983 · Series
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Love & Passion
1982 · Series
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A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
1995 · Movie
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Kung Fu Hustle
2004 · Movie
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A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
1995 · Movie
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Flirting Scholar
1993 · Movie
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Love Is Love
1990 · Movie
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Hail the Judge
1994 · Movie
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King of Comedy
1999 · Movie
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CJ7
2008 · Movie
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Take Me Home
2024 · Series
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The Unmatchable Match
1990 · Movie
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Shaolin Soccer
2001 · Movie
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The God of Cookery
1996 · Movie
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Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
2013 · Movie
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All's Well, Ends Well
1992 · Movie
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Tricky Brains
1991 · Movie
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Royal Tramp
1992 · Movie
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Royal Tramp 2
1992 · Movie
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Forbidden City Cop
1996 · Movie
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The Last Conflict
1988 · Movie
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From Beijing with Love
1994 · Movie
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Fight Back to School
1991 · Movie
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God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
1991 · Movie
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King of Beggars
1992 · Movie
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Love on Delivery
1994 · Movie
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The Final Combat
1989 · Series
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On the Brink
1988 · Movie
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The Price Of Growing Up
1987 · Series
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Out of the Dark
1995 · Movie
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God of Gamblers II
1990 · Movie
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Fight Back to School 2
1992 · Movie
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The Monkey King
2023 · Movie
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The Thief of Time
1992 · Movie
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When Fortune Smiles
1990 · Movie
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The Mermaid
2016 · Movie
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All for the Winner
1990 · Movie
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Justice, My Foot!
1992 · Movie
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My Hero
1990 · Movie
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Just Heroes
1989 · Movie