What was Chow Yun Fat's original name and where did he come from?

Chow Yun Fat, formerly known as Chow Yun Fat, was born in Lamma Island and his ancestral home was Kaiping, Guangdong.

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Chow Yun Fat, born in Lamma Island in May 1955, born in Kaiping, Guangdong Province, is a China film and television actor, photographer and national first-class actor.

1974 graduated from TVB artist training class, and starred in more than 20 dramas such as "Crazy" and "Shanghai Beach". From 65438 to 0976, he entered the film industry. In the 1980s, he began to shoot movies and gambling movies in the heyday of Hong Kong movies with films such as Heroes and Gamblers, and became a representative figure of Hong Kong's "violent aesthetics" style movies. In 1990s, Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow were called "two weeks 10%". 1995 Go to Hollywood for development. He has starred in Anna and the King, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and many other films with different styles, and served as Oscar winner twice. 1999 left his handprint in the "Central Square" of China City, LA, and won the special achievement award of Deauville Asian Film Festival in 2000. In 2004, he became the top three actors in the United States with the largest collection of his DVDs because of his gunman image in movies such as Hot Blood Man. In 2005, it was rated as the first place in the "classic TV drama niche" by Hong Kong netizens; In 2007, he won the lifetime achievement award of "Asian Outstanding Achievement Award" awarded by AZN TV in the United States.

In addition, Chow Yun Fat is also keen on public welfare undertakings. In 2000, he was selected as one of the seven "Celebrity Heroes of the Earth" by Time magazine of the United States, and was awarded the silver bauhinia star of the SAR Government in 2003. In the same year, his struggle was written into the Chinese textbook for the first year of middle school published by Si Qi Publishing House, and he became the first performer to be included in the middle school textbook.