Valerie Chow

Valerie Chow

Nascimento : 1970-12-16, Hong Kong, China

História

Valerie Chow is a former Hong Kong actress, fashion publicist and entrepreneur. She has starred in numerous films and several television series, most memorably in Wong Kar-wai's internationally acclaimed 1994 feature, Chungking Express, which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards. A former Miss Hong Kong runner-up (1991), she is also the first Chinese model to be signed by US cosmetics company Revlon in 1998. Since 2003, she has worked primarily as a fashion publicist and in 2010, opened Mama Kid, a children's designer concept store in Hong Kong. In 2018, she made a surprising return to acting, starring in the film Prison Architect by renowned Chinese visual artist Cao Fei. The film was commissioned by Tai Kwun, the Centre for Heritage and Arts in Hong Kong, and screened at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival as part of their Forum Expanded programme.

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Valerie Chow

Filmes

Prison Architect
The two protagonists – an architect and a prisoner living in parallel realities in the present time and an ambiguous distanced past, respectively – conjure up imaginations and experiences of imprisonment. In their dialogue across space and time they debate the relations between humans, the world, and freedom. They talk of visible and invisible imprisonment, existentialism as a means of self-redemption, and at the same time question the relationship of humans to the space around them. An attempt at reconciliation with the world and human nature.
Freaky Story
Chung Chun
Hong Kong horror.
Inner Senses
Mrs. Chan
This is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when Jim begins seeing the same things she does and the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past
The Vampire Combat
Piu Hung / Lin Qian / Shen
Master Maolung is so obsessed with the supernatural that he keeps an eye on the "yin" wife of his eldest disciple, Hu Yaotu. Hu succeeds in keeping the master concealed. A century later, everybody has a new life without memory of the past. Maolung's loyal but evil follower swears to take revenge and save his master from the subdued world at any price.
Healing Hearts
Lawyer Tsing
Intended as the pilot for a an E.R.-style medical drama set in Hong Kong, Healing Hearts features Tony Leung as Lawrence, a doctor whose personal life has been left in shambles after the tragic hit-and-run death of his wife. As Lawrence sets off to find the driver and bring him to justice, one of his colleagues finds himself distracted by a beautiful coma patient. Healing Hearts was directed by Gary Tang and features Leung Chiu-Wai, Michelle Reis, Kenny Bee, Stephen Fung, and Jackie Lui.
Sausalito
Virginia Chow
Ella is a divorced Chinese American taxi driver who spends her days ferrying people around the roads of Sausalito, San Francisco. After work, she spends time with her 8-year old son, Scott. Ella meets Mike at Sky House, an infamous pick-up joint. Awkward strangers at first, they nonetheless find passion and what they want in each other.
O Esporte do Futuro
Jet Yuen
Em 2025, O ESPORTE DO FUTURO é o esporte organizado do planeta. Mas alguém mais está se organizado, e o jogo deles é a guerra. Agora, o super astro da competição, Tre Ramzey tem muito mais a carregar ...
Passagem para o Inferno
Princess Halo
O mercenário Warchild (Dolph Lundgren) é o fiel escudeiro do General Ruechang (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), que foi o responsável por seu treinamento militar. Obcecado pelo poder, Ruechang planeja casar com a Princesa Halo (Valerie Chow), mas esta descobre que ele matou seu pai e decide fugir. Warchild é incumbido de capturá-la, mas quando a encontra os dois acabam se apaixonando.
Fantasmas
Scientist Yamaguchi
Tentando mudar o modo de vida de sua irmã mais nova, uma médica a leva para Snowfield, Colorado, uma pequena cidade que no inverno tem 400 habitantes e no verão atinge 4000 por causa dos turistas. Mas quando as duas chegam na localidade não encontram viva alma e só acham alguns corpos, que parecem terem tido uma morte misteriosa. As duas obviamente ficam apavoradas e só se tranqüilizam um pouco quando o xerife do local e seus dois assistentes aparecem. Enquanto investigam vêem escrito em um espelho uma mensagem que faz uma referência a "Timothy Flyte". Eles conseguem pedir ajuda de forças federais, que antes de rumarem encontram Flyte e o levam para o local. Ele é um jornalista e pesquisador que foi colocado no ostracismo, mas acredita que esta força maligna, que está causando pavor e matando os integrantes da missão, é um ser que pode adquirir inúmeras formas e estava adormecido por séculos no fundo da terra, mas voltou para dizimar e se apossar dos corpos de suas vítimas.
Hero
Yam Yeung-Tien
Ma Wing Jing and his older brother Ma Tai Chueng arrive in Shanghai to make their fortune at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Be-friending a powerful mobster Wing Jing is given his nightclub in return for saving Tam Sei's life. Unfortunately, another Gangster wants the territory a well. Corruption and violence rule the streets as Wing Jing and Tam Sei must battle not only the rival gangs but the corrupt police officials as well.
Street Angels
Karen
After her gangster boyfriend Walkie Pie skips town to evade a murder rap, beautiful Tung Yen hooks up with a wealthy nightclub owner, Brother Man, only to have her ex return with guns blazing.
The Blade
Whore
A young man adopted by a renowned swordsmith, discovers that his real father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs foul of a group of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he eventually learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront the man who murdered his father.
Red Zone
Ivy Lau
Red Zone is a Hong Kong Action movie produced by Jackie Chan
95陀枪女警
Ling
Dirty Harry meets Charlie's Angels in this cheapie crime thriller directed by Chueng Kon-man. Hoping to stem Hong Kong's exploding crime rate, the police decide to issue guns to select number of female officers. Soon bumbling veteran Madam Chu (Carrie Ng) and young eager beaver rookie Ling (Valerie Chow) are assigned as partners. On their first day on the job together, they happen upon a massive arms cache belonging to notorious gangster Law Man-tat (Ng Man-tat). Soon afterwards, Chu's husband and son are murdered by mobland thugs. Looking for revenge, she goes undercover as a crime world lawyer, winning Law's trust. Yet when she tries to transfer some incriminating evidence onto a computer disc, she gets caught red handed. Chu is beaten and strapped to a bomb, while her abductors demand $10 million ransom. Meanwhile, Ling who fell for rakish detective Ng (Roy Cheung) is working on her own way to free Chu and get the baddies.
The Case of the Cold Fish
Linda
On the peaceful Lantau Island of Hong Kong, a murder takes place. A Eurasian is suspected until he turns out to be a cop from the city S.W.A.T team. The laid-back chief inspector Chow of the island is forced to collaborated. The ways of a city cop and the ways of a country cop collides into series of laughs.
Máscara da Morte
Fai-Fai
Depois do assassinato de sua família, há dois anos, Lee, largou a força policial e foi trabalhar como guarda-costas e dublê de um conhecido astro de cinema. Mas seu desejo de morrer e unir-se à sua família será em breve substituído por um sentimento maior: a sede de vingança. Ao acompanhar seu famoso patrão a uma exposição de valiosas joias em um hotel, Lee, se depara com uma gangue de criminosos que domina o local para tomar posse das joias. Acontece que o líder da gangue é o mesmo homem que matou sua família…
Wind Beneath the Wings
Valerie Chow plays Ling, an attractive young lass studying to be a stewardess. Ling struggles to maintain her studies while being harried by her rich, lecherous classmates and a powerful old man who is hell-bent on having her marry his geeky son (Yu Rongguang). Of course, she eventually meets hunky flight steward Chan Kai-ming (Moses Chan Ho) and true love blooms in the friendly skies.
Spider Woman
Carman
Michael Wong is walking in a circle, he is not only facing a complex human relationship as well as inharmonious relationship with some terrible persons. Those affairs push Michael to the death.
Ghostly Bus
Ling-Ling
The victims of a bus crash live on as ghosts, but some having a pressing need to finish the business of their earthly lives.
Dream Killer
Michelle Lau
Police officer Cheng (Michael Wong) gets into a brawl with another man while he's off duty out of town. When the other man is found murdered the following day, Cheng assists the local authorities in their investigation, despite their drastically different crime-solving methods.
Lover of the Last Empress
The Queen
The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with terror.
Twenty Something
Irene
Young friends (Jordan Chan, Moses Chan, Farini Cheung) look for happiness but find only fleeting pleasure in barhopping and one-night stands.
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father
Dr. Jenny Chung
Yuen scorns his father, who he thinks is too generous and forgiving. Through a flashback/time travel gimmick, Yuen meets his parents during their joyous courtship. Yuen comes to understand and admire his dad, and reflect on his own moral defects.