As one of the most talked-about figures, Chow Yun-Fat has built a significant fortune. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.

What Is Chow Yun-fat's Net Worth?

Chow Yun-fat is a Hong Kong actor who has a net worth of $200 million. He is best known in Asia for working withJohn Wooin genre films like "A Better Tomorrow" (1986), "Hard Boiled" (1992), and "The Killer" (1989), and he is known in the West for his roles in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (2007). Chow became a household name in Hong Kong following his role in the hit 1980 series "The Bund."

He has more than 110 acting credits to his name, including the films "Hong Kong 1941" (1984), "City on Fire" (1987), "The Replacement Killers" (1998), "Anna and the King" (1999), "Bulletproof Monk" (2003), and "Confucius" (2010) and the television series "Hotel" (1976), "A House Is Not a Home" (1977), "The Giants" (1978), "Over the Rainbow" (1979), and "The Brothers" (1980). Yun-fat is credited as a writer on the films "All About Ah-Long" (1989) and "Peace Hotel" (1995), and in 2008, he published a book of his photos that was sold at Louis Vuitton stores, with proceeds going to victims of the Sichuan earthquake.

Early Life

Chow Yun-fat was born on May 18, 1955, on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. His father, Chow Yung-Wan, worked on a Shell Oil tanker, and his mother, Chan Lai-fong, was a vegetable farmer as well as a cleaning lady. The family lived in a farming community, and their house did not have electricity. Every morning, Chow woke up at dawn and helped his mother sell Hakka tea-pudding and herbal jelly. He spent his afternoons working in the fields. When Yun-fat was 10 years old, the family moved to Kowloon. Chow dropped out of school at age 17 to help support his family, and he found work as a postman, taxi driver, bellboy, and camera salesman. He later attended City University of Hong Kong, and after college, he was accepted to local TV station TVB as an actor trainee. Yun-fat entered into a three-year contract with TVB, and in 1975, he appeared on television in "Chinese Folklore: God of River," "Chinese Folklore: Dream of the Red Chamber," "Little Women," "Broken Pieces," and "Beautiful Ladies."

Career

Chow signed an exclusive acting contract with Goldig Films and made his movie debut in 1976, appearing in "The Hunter, the Butterfly and the Crocodile," "Reincarnation," and "Massage Girls." In 1980, he starred as Hui Man-Keung on the TVB series "The Bund," which became a hit all over Asia. Though Yun-fat had become a successful television actor, his goal was to find success in films, and it came when he starred in 1986's "A Better Tomorrow," which was directed by John Woo. The movie was ranked #2 on the Hong Kong Film Awards' "Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures" list, and Chow reprised the role of Mark 'Gor' Lee in 1987's "A Better Tomorrow II" and 1989's "A Better Tomorrow 3." In the late '80s, he also appeared in the films "City on Fire" (1987), "Scared Stiff" (1987), "An Autumn's Tale" (1987), "Prison on Fire" (1987), "The Eighth Happiness" (1988), and "Wild Search" (1989). In 1989, Yun-fat played Ko Chun in "God of Gamblers," which broke Hong Kong's box office record with a gross of HK$37,058,686.

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Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.