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周潤發（Chow Yun-fat），1955年5月18日生於香港南丫島，祖籍廣東開平，人稱「發哥」，是香港演員與攝影家。他在南丫島一個務農家庭長大，家中有四兄弟姊妹，父親是長年出海的船員，母親靠種菜、養雞幫補家計，家中連電力也沒有；他每天清晨四時起床，替母親挑著糕點到碼頭擺賣，童年生活清苦。1965年一家人遷居九龍，他轉到市區讀書，只讀了三年中學便輟學，先後做過搬運工、郵差及推銷員等工作，替補家計。1973年，他投考無綫電視第三期藝員訓練班，畢業後成為無綫基本藝員，起初在《歡樂今宵》等綜藝節目中亮相，其後憑長篇劇集《狂潮》、《家變》、《強人》、《奮鬥》、《親情》及《網中人》（1979）等逐步走紅；1976年他首次參演電影。1980年，他在電視劇《上海灘》中飾演黑幫青年許文強，西裝歪帽、叼煙點火的一幕成為經典，令他紅遍華人社會，奠定電視一線小生的地位。1986年，他在吳宇森執導的《英雄本色》中飾演Mark哥，這個瀟灑不羈、重情重義的形象膾炙人口，電影票房逾三千四百萬港元，成為該年度票房冠軍，他亦憑此片首奪第6屆香港電影金像獎最佳男主角。1987年他憑《龍虎風雲》連續兩年封帝；1990年再憑《阿郎的故事》第三度獲獎，成為金像獎史上首位三屆影帝。他的其他代表作包括《監獄風雲》（1987）、《賭神》（1989）、《賭俠》（1990）、《喋血雙雄》（1989）、《辣手神探》（1992）及《縱橫四海》（1991）等，並憑文藝片《等待黎明》（1984）及《秋天的童話》（1987）兩度奪得台灣金馬獎最佳男主角；文藝片方面，他亦參演《傾城之戀》（1984）及《女人心》（1985）。1995年主演《和平飯店》後，他赴好萊塢發展，先後主演《替身殺手》（1998）、《血仍未冷》（1998）及《安娜與國王》（1999）。2000年，他主演李安執導的《臥虎藏龍》，飾演大俠李慕白，該片奪得奧斯卡最佳外語片，令他聲名更上一層樓。此後他參演《滿城盡帶黃金甲》（2006）、《姨媽的後現代生活》（2006）、《孔子》（2010）、《讓子彈飛》（2010）、《建黨偉業》（2011）、《大鬧天宮》（2014）及《無雙》（2018）等賣座電影。他熱愛攝影，尤其擅拍街頭與黑白照片，曾舉辦個人攝影展，並多次公開表示計劃把大部分財產捐作慈善。他1983年曾與演員余安安結婚，翌年離異，1986年與陳薈蓮（Jasmine Tan）再婚，夫妻恩愛多年。2023年他獲釜山國際電影節頒發亞洲電影人獎，同年主演《別叫我「賭神」》。
English
Chow Yun-fat (born 18 May 1955 on Lamma Island, Hong Kong), whose ancestral home is Kaiping, Guangdong, is an actor and photographer known as 'Fat Gor'. He grew up in a farming family of four children; his father was a seaman who was often away and his mother kept vegetables and chickens, and the household had no electricity, so as a boy he rose at four each morning to help sell cakes at the pier. The family moved to Kowloon in 1965, and after only three years of secondary school he left his studies, working as a porter, a postman and a salesman to help support the family. In 1973 he joined Television Broadcasts' third artist training class and became a leading TV star through long serials such as Hotel, A House Is Not a Home, The Giants, Conflict and Family Conflicts, above all with The Bund (1980), in which his Hui Man-keung became a household name across the Chinese-speaking world; he made his film debut in 1976. In 1986, playing the carefree gangster Mark in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, he became a superstar; the film took over HK$34 million at the box office as the year's top earner and won him Best Actor at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards. He won the award again for City on Fire in 1987 and a third time for All About Ah Long in 1990, becoming the first three-time winner. His other hits include Prison on Fire (1987), God of Gamblers (1989), God of Gamblers II (1990), The Killer (1989), Hard Boiled (1992) and Once a Thief (1991), and he has twice won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, for Waiting for Dawn (1984) and An Autumn's Tale (1987); he also appeared in such romantic dramas as Love in a Fallen City (1984) and Women (1985). After starring in Peace Hotel in 1995 he moved to Hollywood, appearing in The Replacement Killers (1998), The Corruptor (1998) and Anna and the King (1999). In 2000 he starred in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the swordsman Li Mu-bai, and the film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He later appeared in Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006), Confucius (2010), Let the Bullets Fly (2010), The Founding of a Party (2011), The Monkey King (2014) and Project Gutenberg (2018). A keen photographer who has held exhibitions of his street and black-and-white work, he has said he intends to donate much of his fortune to charity. He married the actress Candice Yu in 1983, divorced the following year, and remarried Jasmine Tan in 1986. In 2023 he received the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award at the Busan International Film Festival and starred in Be My Guest.
