Jack(ie) Chow

Biography

Jack(ie) Chow was born on 29 October 1978 in Hong Kong. He is a Hong Kong baseball player and coach, as well as a model, singer and film actor. He joined the Hong Kong Little League at the age of 10 in 1989, later became a member of the Hong Kong National Baseball Team and also a baseball coach. He served as a coach for HTM Cardinals, Hong Kong team coach for the Asian Youth Baseball Tournament, coach at Tau Yan Kun St. Bonaventure Catholic Primary School, Shatin Pui Ying Secondary School, Kwai Tsing Baseball Club adult team, and the Hong Kong First Baseball Club ROCKS MINOR TEAM. In 1995, at age 16, he went to study abroad in Melbourne, Australia, and graduated from Monash University, where he also took singing lessons and was active in student union activities including drama, music and singing performances. After returning to Hong Kong, he worked as a programmer, financial planner, shipping assistant, teaching assistant and baseball coach. Passionate about the entertainment industry, he also worked as an amateur model and backup singer. In 2007, Hong Kong emerging director Scud was invited to shoot a promotional video for the Hong Kong National Baseball Team and decided to make a film about them titled "City Without Baseball," inviting Chow to star as himself. He has starred in several major international film festival productions including Berlin, Chicago, Cannes and Taipei, with his latest starring role in Scud's film "Utopians," and he also served as baseball consultant for the film "Weeds on Fire." In addition to being an actor, Chow is also a musician who composes, writes lyrics, arranges and sings his own songs, with several works ready for release.