周星馳

繁體中文

周星馳1962年出生於英屬香港，人稱「星爺」，係香港喜劇演員、導演、監製、編劇，以喜劇作品起家，之後逐步兼任導演與製片人，形成獨具特色嘅幽默風格同創作體系。其父系祖先係來自浙江省寧波市嘅移民；名字典故出自《滕王閣序》「雄州霧列，俊采星馳」，英文名Stephen則由外婆命名。佢幼年家境貧窮，有一姊一妹，父母在佢7歲時離異，母親凌寶兒獨力撫養三個孩子。1974年佢畢業於中華基督教會協和小學下午校，並進入基督教香港信義會信義中學就讀中一，中五畢業於聖瑪利奧英文中學。1980年，周星馳於麗的電視（亞洲電視前身）擔任臨時演員而開始演藝生涯，首次演出在青春電視劇《I.Q.成熟時》；1981年佢報名參加第11期無綫電視藝員訓練班，經好友戚美珍介紹進入同期夜訓班，1983年畢業後被安排到兒童節目《430穿梭機》擔任主持人四年，並在兒童單元劇《黑白殭屍》系列扮演主角「黑殭屍」，其別樹一格嘅演出風格已具日後賣座電影嘅雛形。1990年代佢憑《唐伯虎點秋香》等作品成為票房傳奇，開創嘅「無厘頭」喜劇風格影響深遠。

English

Stephen Chow, born in British Hong Kong in 1962 and known as Sing Yeh, is a comedian, director, screenwriter and producer who started out as a comedy performer and gradually added directing and producing, developing a distinctive comic style and creative system of his own. His paternal ancestors were migrants from Ningbo in Zhejiang; his Chinese name comes from a line in the Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng, and his English name was chosen by his maternal grandmother. Poor as a child, he had an elder sister and a younger sister, and his parents divorced when he was seven, leaving his mother to raise the three children alone. He finished primary school in 1974 and went on to secondary school, graduating from a Kowloon school. In 1980 he began his career as an extra at RTV, making his debut in a youth drama; the following year he applied to Television Broadcasts' actor training class, failed the entrance test and joined the night class through a friend's introduction. After graduating in 1983 he spent four years hosting a children's programme, playing the lead in its comic serial, and his idiosyncratic style already foreshadowed the blockbusters to come. In the 1990s hits such as Flirting Scholar made him a box-office legend, and his 'mo lei tau' nonsense comedy left a deep mark on Chinese-language film.