This is what we know and think you need to know:

• Date of birth: 18 May 1955 in Hong Kong
• Usually plays an action hero
• He's a Buddhist and in real life hates violence
• Quentin Tarantino (Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1993) said this about him,"After I saw A Better Tomorrow, I went out and bought a long coat, and I got sunglasses, and I walked around for a week dressing like Chow Yun-Fat. And to me, that's the ULTIMATE compliment for an action hero--when you want to dress like the guy."

We really, really like him. The two big American released films we've seen him in are:

The Replacement Killers (fabulous film!)

Anna and the King (lovely role)

Anyway, here are some pictures for you:

Sorry there aren't any more, but it was really difficult to find pictures where he wasn't pointing a gun at someone!!

Hey, look what we found... They're both from "Anna and the King". We like Jodie Foster, so it's cool that she's in the picture.

Doesn't he look good?

Look at how well he does that smouldering look!