Stephen Chow

Also known as Stephen Chow Sing Chi, Chow Sing Chi, Zhou Xingchi, Stephen Chiau, Stephen Chiau Sing-chi

Hong Kong actor, comedian and filmmaker (born 1962)

Person · Open Library

Works: 3

Top works

Chow Collection - Acquisitions 2012-2017
Chow Collection 1. 1
The Chow Collection

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Film & TV

Acting · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Stephen Chow Sing-Chi (Chinese: 周星馳) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, actor, and producer. Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong on 22 June 1962 to Ling Po Yee, an alumna of Guangzhou Normal University, and Chow Yik Sheung, an immigrant from Ningbo, Zhejiang. Chow has an elder sister named Chow Man Kei and a younger sister named Chow Sing Ha. Chow's given name "Sing-chi" derives from Tang dynasty Chinese…

Known for

Hong Kong Hustle: The Chinese Cinema Odyssey Of Stephen Chow — Archival Footage2024
The King of Stand-up Comedy — 节目发起人2024
The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up2018
Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back — Theater Employee (uncredited)2017
CJ7: The Cartoon2010
CJ7 — Ti Chow2008
Kung Fu Hustle — Sing2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self2003
Shaolin Soccer — Mighty Steel Leg / Sing2001
King of Comedy — Wan Tin Sau1999

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Hong Kong
Active from: 1962

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,496
Total plays: 6,827

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,001x
Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 40,504x
Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 27,629x
Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,321x
Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,884x

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Key facts

Born: Stephen Chow Sing-chi , ( 1962-06-22 ) 22 June 1962 (age 63) , British Hong Kong
Occupations: Director, actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer
Years active: As an actor: , 1982–2008, As a director: , 1994–present
Traditional chinese: 周星馳
Simplified chinese: 周星驰
Hanyu pinyin: Zhōu Xīngchí
Bopomofo: ㄓㄡㄒㄧㄥㄔˊ
Yale romanization: Jāu Sīng-chìh
Jyutping: Zau1 Sing1-ci4
Ipa: [ tsɐ́u séŋ.tsʰȉ ]

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Wikidata facts

Image: Stephen Chow, 2008 (cropped).JPG

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Commons category: Stephen Chow
date of birth: 1962-06-22
start of work period: 1980-00-00
name in native language: Stephen Chow
pseudonym: 幇主

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Article

Stephen Chow Sing-chi (Chinese: 周星馳; born 22 June 1962) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor, known for his mo lei tau comedy, which has a significant influence on Chinese popular culture. His career began in television, where he gained recognition through variety shows and TV dramas. Chow's breakthrough came in 1989 with the comedy dramas The Final Combat and The Justice of Life, the latter marking the beginning of his on-screen collaboration with Ng Man-tat. He consecutively broke Hong Kong’s box office records in the next two years with films All for the Winner (1990) and Fight Back to School (1991), cementing his status as one of the region's most popular comedic actors.

Since the early 1990s, Chow began working as a screenwriter and director, serving as a de facto director for Flirting Scholar (1993) before receiving his first directorial credit with From Beijing with Love (1994). His first two attempts at Hong Kong–mainland co-productions, Flirting Scholar and A Chinese Odyssey (1995), received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office in both markets upon release. However, they gained popularity over time, and by the 2000s, A Chinese Odyssey had particularly elevated his status as a cultural icon in China.