Director

Yuen Qiu

Acting

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 119426

IMDb ID: nm1228408

Known for: Acting

Born: April 19, 1950

Age: 75

Place of birth: Shandong Province, China

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1972 - 2025

Years active: 54

Average TMDB rating: 5.77

Wikidata: Q4922542

Also known as

Cheung Cheun-Nam • Phoenix Kim • Yuan Qiu • Qiu Yuen • یوئن چی

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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.