
Yuen Qiu
Born: 1950-04-19
Place of birth: 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.
Filmography

Fire Cloud Evil God 2: Eighteen Dragon Palms
2020

The Luckiest Man
2008

Kung Fu Beggar
2005

Avenging Trio
1989

A Fist Within Four Walls
2016

Wudang Rules
2015

New Tales of the Flying Fox
1984

Pursuit
1972

Second Life
2024

Kung Fu Hustle
2004

Long Road to Gallantry
1984

Kung Fu Stuntmen
2021

The Shadow's Edge
2025

I'll Call You
2006

Kung Fu Wing Chun
2010

Dreadnaught
1981

Fire Cloud Evil God: Mask of Chaos
2020

Europe Raiders
2018