Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong, China on June 22nd, 1962 and is the Director. At the age of 61, Stephen Chow biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 61 years old, Stephen Chow has this physical status:
Career
Chow began his work as an extra for Rediffusion Television. In 1982, he joined TVB for the first time. He was attracted to the TVB Jade children's show 430 Space Shuttle, which was on display.
Chow made his film debut in the 1988 film Final Justice, which earned him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Horse Awards.
In The Final Battle (1989), Chow shot to fame (1989). He appeared in more than 40 films in the following decade. Fight Back to School (1991) became Hong Kong's highest-grossing film of all time. He started directing films in 1994, starting with From Beijing with Love. Chow became a hero and the Stephen Chow Phenomenon in China's second half of the 1990s. ()
Shaolin Soccer, his 2001 film, grossed over US$50 million worldwide. At the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, Chow received Best Director and Best Actor, and the film went on to receive additional awards, including a Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director. At the time, it was the highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong, grossing $46 million in the Asia region.
In 2004, his film Kung Fu Hustle grossed over US$106 million worldwide. Chow has received both Best Director and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival accolades, as well as over twenty international awards. Bill Murray, a comedian, said that the film was "the greatest achievement of the modern age in terms of comedies."
In the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo, CJ7's film CJ7 first began filming in July 2006. In August 2007, the film was released as CJ7, a play on China's successful Shenzhou crewed space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. In Malaysia, CJ7 became the most successful film of all time.
He has been lauded by respected organizations, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, who named him King of Comedy, for his contribution to comedic theater.
He became the executive director and major shareholder of BingoGroup Limited in 2010.
Conquering the Demons, his film Journey to the West, was the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time.
His film The Mermaid broke several box office records in 2016 and became China's highest-grossing film of all time. The Mermaid was first released in Vietnam on February 10, 2016. It was the third-most-grossing film in Vietnam on March 14th. Its now worth over $5533.81 million worldwide. In 2016, Chow became the ninth-top-grossing Hollywood Director.