Stephen Chow

Stephen Chow Sing-Chi was born in born 22 June 1962 in hong kong.Is a hong kong actor, screenwriter, film director and producer.

Chow is a well-know, top lier comediab and superstar of hong kong entertainment. This image is epitomized by his nickname Sing Yeh.  However, his brand of mo lei tau comedy, which includes puns, double entendre and jokes at the expense of unique aspects of chinese culture, meant that few of his earlier films could exercise much impact in the West until his later films, shaolin scorer in 2001 and kung fu hustle in 2004 .

Chow often casts relatively new young actresses to play opposite him, especially as romantic leads, and many of these actresses have gone on to have successful film or music careers of their own.

Professional career

Stephen Chow began as a temporary actor for TVB. He entered TVB in early 1980s, and was trained there, although he had few opportunities to appear in films.

In 1999 Chow began directing films, with king of comedy. In 2001 his film”Shaolin Soccer” grossed over 60 million dollars, the film won best picture, and chow won Best Actor and Best Director at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, receiving a total of seven wins from 2001–2003, including Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film & Golden Best Picture and Best Director. In 2004 he also directed the film Kung Fu Hustle winning 18 awards including BAFTA Best Film not in the English Language, five Golden Horse Awards and six Hong Kong Film Awards.

Chow’s film Cj7 began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of ningboo 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. This film introduced newcomer Kitty Zhang as his romantic lead.