Chow Yun-Fat Trivia

Trivia

  • Tri-lingual, speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
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  • Won Taiwan Golden Horse "Best Actor" Awards Two Times: Hong Kong 1941, 1985. An Autumn's Tale, 1987.
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  • Attempted suicide over the break-up after 5-year (1978-1983) romance with popular TV star Idy Chan.
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  • Chosen one of 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
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  • He helped Andy Lau in his movie career, after it almost crashed when he refused to sign a contract with TVB, which made him blacklisted from Hong Kong Television.
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  • After a first unsuccessful marriage with a fellow Hong Kong star actress, he fell in love and re-married the daughter of one of the richest Chinese dynastic scions from Singapore.
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  • Unusually tall by Chinese standards, he was often a head taller than his co-stars in his Hong Kong films, female or male.
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  • Credited as Chow Anderson in the Philippines in his earlier films.
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  • Chow Yun-Fat was born of the Hakkha (aka Ha Ka) race, an ethnic group from China that has moved from one region to another without taking up permanent residence since the ancient times. The Hakkha dialect is now the second most popular dialect in Taiwan.
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  • Turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix (1999).
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  • Sponsors a lot of charity events such as,"National Wildlife" and many others.
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  • CineAsia, the Asian Theatre Owners Convention, named Chow the Star of the Decade.
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  • Enjoys Photography. His elder sister also is a photographer.
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  • He and Andy Lau made 4 movies together: Ying hung ho hon (1987), Gong woo ching (1987), Du shen (1989), and Dou hap (1991). They also made two TV-series together: "Yang ka cheung" (1986) and "Sou hat yi" (1982).
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  • Made a surprise cameo in the hit Chinese independent film Du zi deng dai (2004).
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  • Won Asian Pacific Festival "Best Actor" Award for Hong Kong 1941, 1985.
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  • Won Hong Kong Academy "Best Actor" Awards Three Times: A Better Tomorrow, 1987. City On Fire, 1988, All About Ah Long, 1990.
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  • Before going to work on a movie each day, he goes to the nearest market and buys some fresh fruit.
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