Qiu Yuen Biography

Fast Facts

• At the 2006 Hundred Flowers Awards, she won Best Supporting Actress for "Kung Fu Hustle․"
• Won Best Supporting Actress at the 2005 Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in "Kung Fu Hustle․"
• Attended a China Drama Academy where she studied martial arts and Beijing opera
• During the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked as a nightclub performer
• Was apprenticed under the same master who taught Jacki Chan and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Yu Jim-yuen
• After almost two decades away from the Hong Kong film industry, she accidentally won a role in "Kung Fu Hustle" when she showed up to the audition with a younger woman
• Worked as a stunt woman early in her career, with her most notable role being in "The Man with the Golden Gun," in which she played a female student who rescues James Bond