Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
19 Apr, 1950 (74 years old)

Yuen Qiu

Biography

Yuen Qiu (元秋) is a Hong Kong actress and martial artist born as born Cheung Cheun-Nam (張轉男) in Shandong Province, China. She is an expert of both Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills, and was apprenticed under the same master, Yu Jim-Yuen, as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo at the China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School. Yuen Qiu worked as a stuntwoman and as a night club performer from the late 1960s to early 1970s. She had a small role in the international production, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), portraying a student rescuing Roger Moore as James Bond. As there were few opportunities for stuntwomen and barely any prospects for improvement at the time, she got married in 1974 at the age of 24. After being away from the Hong Kong film industry for nearly 20 years, she landed a role in Kung Fu Hustle only by chance. She was only accompanying a junior woman fellow of the China Drama Academy at the audition but the director's eye was on her. Reports show that Stephen Chow gave her the job after unremitting and persistent persuasion. Yuen is also in a movie called Kung Fu Mahjong, with Yuen Wah.

Known For

Fire Cloud Evil God: Mask of Chaos
HD
74 min 2020

Fire Cloud Evil God: Mask of Chaos

Action
We Are Legends
HD
108 min 2019

We Are Legends

Action
Tales from the Dark 1
HD
114 min 2013

Tales from the Dark 1

Horror
I Love Wing Chun
HD
102 min 2011

I Love Wing Chun

Action
Kung Fu Hustle
HD
99 min 2004

Kung Fu Hustle

Action
The Heroine
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84 min 1973

The Heroine

Action

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