
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.

The Shadow's Edge
MOVIE • 2025

Club Sparkle
TV • 2009

Kung Fu Hustle
MOVIE • 2004

The Man with the Golden Gun
MOVIE • 1974

Just Another Pandora's Box
MOVIE • 2010

A Fist Within Four Walls
TV • 2016

Wudang Rules
TV • 2015

Kung Fu Beggar
TV • 2005

Project A
TV • 2007

From Vegas to Macau III
MOVIE • 2016

The Righteous Fists
TV • 2022

A Fistful of Stances
TV • 2010

Eagle Shadow Fist
MOVIE • 1973

谁解女人心
TV • 2014

Looking for Jackie
MOVIE • 2009

All U Need Is Love
MOVIE • 2021

Disciples of the 36th Chamber
MOVIE • 1985

Unmatched Hero Fang Shiyu
TV • 2011