Yuen Qiu
1950-04-19 ( 74 years old ) in Shandong Province, China

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.

Movies

Second Life 2024-08-15
Lost But Win 2024-05-26
We Are Legends 2019-03-19
Europe Raiders 2018-08-17
Staycation 2018-02-01
The Bodyguard 2016-04-01
Wild City 2015-07-25
Delete My Love 2014-05-08
Aberdeen 2014-05-08
Eastern Legend 2007-01-01
I'll Call You 2006-03-23
Kung Fu Hustle 2004-02-10
1:99 Shorts 2003-08-04
Dreadnaught 1981-03-26
Dragon's Claws 1979-01-01
The Heroine 1973-04-26
Pursuit 1972-01-06