Yuen Qiu

Yuen Qiu Chinese 元秋 born Cheung CheunNam 1948 is a Chinese actress and martial artist She is an expert of both Chinese martial arts and Beijingopera skills and was apprenticed under the same master Yu JimYuen as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung KamBo at the China Drama Academys 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 directors 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