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Gordon Liu | |||||||||||
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劉家輝 | |||||||||||
| Born | Sin Kam-hei (冼錦熙) August 22, 1951[1] | ||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Actor, martial artist | ||||||||||
| Years active | 1973–present | ||||||||||
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Ma Fei-feng
(m. 1991; div. 2009) | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 劉家輝 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘家辉 | ||||||||||
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| Sin Kam-hei | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 冼錦熙 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 冼锦熙 | ||||||||||
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Gordon Liu (Lau Kar-fai simplified Chinese: 刘家辉; traditional Chinese: 劉家輝; pinyin: Liú Jiāhuī; Wade–Giles: Liu Chia-hui; Jyutping: Lau4 Gaa1 fai1); born Sin Kam-hei (simplified Chinese: 冼锦熙; traditional Chinese: 冼錦熙; pinyin: Xiǎn Jǐnxī, 22 August 1951)[2] is a Chinese actor and martial artist best known for his martial arts films.
Born in Guangdong, Liu studied hung ga kung fu at the school founded by Lau Kar-leung's father, Lau Cham.[3] He entered the Hong Kong film industry as a stuntman. His early acting credits include minor roles in several Hong Kong kung fu films, including the Shaw Brothers-produced 5 Shaolin Masters (1974). He went on to appear in many Shaw Brothers films, such as Challenge of the Masters (1976), in which he portrayed the folk hero Wong Fei Hung, Executioners from Shaolin (1977), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), in which he played the lead role as Shaolin hero San Te, Dirty Ho (1979), Return to the 36th Chamber (1980), Martial Club (1981), The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984), and Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985). By the late-1980’s, he had begun accepting smaller roles, such as in Lau Kar-leung's Tiger on the Beat (1988).
Liu made his American film debut in 2003. He played two roles in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films: Johnny Mo, the leader of the Crazy 88 yakuza gang in Volume 1 (2003), and kung fu master Pai Mei in Volume 2 (2004). Other than being a staple in Hong Kong action movies and his foray into Hollywood, Liu also made his Bollywood debut in 2009's Chandni Chowk to China.