Biography
Yuen Qiu, also credited as Qiu Yuen, Yuan Qiu or Cheung Cheun-Nam, is a Hong Kong actress and martial artist. She trained in Chinese martial arts and Beijing opera at the Peking Opera School under Yu Jim-yuen, alongside Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
She worked as a stuntwoman and nightclub performer in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her early screen work includes an uncredited role as Nara, Hip's niece, in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). After a long hiatus she returned to film as the Landlady in Kung Fu Hustle (2004), directed by Stephen Chow; she was cast after being spotted while accompanying a fellow academy graduate to an audition. She has since appeared in films including Kung Fu Mahjong (2005) with Yuen Wah, her classmate and on-screen husband in Kung Fu Hustle.
For her performance in Kung Fu Hustle she received the Golden Horse Award and Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress.
