Yuen Woo-ping is a Chinese martial arts choreographer and film director, renowned as one of the most successful and influential figures in the world of Hong Kong action cinema. He is one of the inductees on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong. Yuen is also a son of Yuen Siu-tien, a renowned martial arts film actor. Yuen achieved his first directing credit in 1978 on the seminal Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, starring Jackie Chan, followed quickly by Drunken Master. The films were smash-hits, launching Jackie Chan as a major film-star, turning Seasonal Films into a major independent production... company, and starting a trend towards comedy in martial arts films that continues to the present day. Yuen went on to work with such figures as Sammo Hung in Magnificent Butcher , Yuen Biao in Dreadnaught , Donnie Yen in Iron Monkey , and Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in Tai Chi Master and Wing Chun . Yuen's works, particularly his action choreography on Fist of Legend , attracted the attention of the Wachowski brothers, who hired him as the martial arts choreographer on The Matrix .
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| Birthdate: | January 1, 1945 |
| Birthplace: | Guangzhou |
| Age: | 67 |
| Also known as: | Woo-ping Yuen, Heping Yuan, Ta Yen Yuen |