周星驰，香港演员、导演、编剧、制片人。祖籍浙江宁波，1962年6月22日生于香港，他是香港最为重要的喜剧片演员与编导之一。中学毕业以后考入香港无线电视台艺员训练班的夜间部。结业后成为无线艺人，最初曾在《香城浪子》《射雕英雄传》等剧集中担任临时演员。1983年起任主持儿童节目“430穿梭机”，长达五年，颇受欢迎。

1987年被派回戏剧组，主演了《他来自江湖》、《盖世豪侠》，逐渐显露独特的喜剧才华。1988年应李修贤之邀出演电影《霹雳先锋》，获第二十五届台湾金马奖最佳男配角奖。1990年出演电影《赌圣》，创当年香港最高票房纪录。后又相继主演《新精武门》、《情圣》(1991)、《逃学威龙》系列、《审死官》(1992，获亚洲影展最佳男主角奖)、《鹿鼎记》两集、《漫画威龙》、《武状元苏乞儿》(1992)、《唐伯虎点秋香》、《九品芝麻官》、《破坏之王》(1993)等，皆票房大热，掀起一股无厘头旋风。1994执导电影《国产凌凌漆》。1994年主演刘镇伟导演的《西游记第一百零一回之月光宝盒》与《西游记大结局之仙履奇缘》，获金紫荆奖最佳男主角奖，但当时反响不大；数年后反被内地青年学子交口称赞，广为传放，极受推崇。

1994年起开始自导自演，包括《国产凌凌漆》(1994，合导，参与编剧)、《大内密探零零发》、《食神》(1996，合导)、《喜剧之王》(1999)等，成绩皆不俗。这一时期参演作品相继有《回魂夜》《百变星君》《算死草》《97家有喜事》《行运一条龙》《千王之王2000》等。2001年独自执导、主演《少林足球》，编导与演技均获肯定，获第二十届香港电影金像奖最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳男主角等六项大奖。

2004年导演《功夫》，相当卖座，并获第四十二届金马奖最佳剧情片、最佳导演奖，以及第二十四届金像奖最佳影片奖。2007年推出《长江7号》，并且开始筹备《功夫2》。监制的作品包括日本电影《少林少女》和好莱坞电影《龙珠》。

2013年，逐渐转到幕后的周星驰导演了电影《西游·降魔篇》，上映后打破23项华语电影票房纪录，全球票房更达2.18亿美元，同时也刷新华语电影全球票房纪录。2014年，开始拍摄电影《美人鱼》，片中周星驰重新启用了“星女郎”张雨绮，女主角依然大胆选用了新人——林允，影片于2016年2月8日在内地上映，上映仅9天票房就已突破20亿。

周星馳，暱稱星爺，「中國的卓別林」，祖籍浙江寧波，出生於香港，香港著名演員、導演、監製、以及編劇，但也是廣東省政協委員。電影以喜劇為主。

Stephen Chiau Sing Chi, professionally known as Stephen Chow, is a Hong Kong filmmaker, actor, and producer.

Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong on 22 June 1962 to Ling Po Yee, an alumna of Guangzhou Normal University, and Chow Yik Sheung, an immigrant from Ningbo, Zhejiang. Chow has an elder sister named Chow Man Kei and a younger sister named Chow Sing Ha. Chow's given name "Sing-chi" derives from Tang dynasty Chinese poet Wang Bo's essay Preface to the Prince of Teng's Pavilion.After his parents divorced when he was seven, Chow was raised by his mother. Chow attended Heep Woh Primary School, a missionary school attached to the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China in Prince Edward Road, Kowloon Peninsula. When he was nine, he saw Bruce Lee's film The Big Boss, which inspired him to become a martial arts star. Chow entered San Marino Secondary School, where he studied alongside Lee Kin-yan. After graduation, he was accepted to TVB's acting classes.

Chow began his career as an extra for Rediffusion Television. He later joined TVB in 1981. He was drawn to attention hosting the TVB Jade children's program 430 Space Shuttle.

Chow made his film Final Justice in 1988, which won him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 25th Golden Globe Awards.

Chow shot to stardom in The Final Combat. The following decade, he appeared in more than 40 films. Fight Back to School became Hong Kong's top-grossing film of all time. In 1994, he began directing films, starting with From Beijing with Love. In the latter half of the 1990s, Chow becomes very famous in China, he became a legend and the Stephen Chow Phenomenon.

In 2001, his film Shaolin Soccer grossed over US$50 million worldwide. Chow won Best Director and Best Actor at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, and the film went on to garner additional awards including a Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was the highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong at the time, grossing $46 million in the Asia region.

In 2004, his film Kung Fu Hustle grossed over US$106 million worldwide. Chow also won Best Director at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival as well as over twenty international awards. Critics as well as film stars such as comedian Bill Murray said that the film was the supreme achievement of modern comedy that had outshone any preexisting form of American comedy, including Murray's directorial work.

His film CJ7 began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo. In August 2007, the film was given the title CJ7, a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. CJ7 became the highest-grossing film of all time in Malaysia.

For his work in comedy, he has received praise from notable institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, who called him the King of Comedy.

Stephen Chow has directed multiple classic films since the 1990s.

In 2013, his film Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons became the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time.

In 2016, his film The Mermaid broke numerous box office records, and became the highest-grossing film of all time in China.

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