Age: 76
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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.
Toni Stark is the daughter of wealthy industrialist and head of Stark Industries, Hodierna Stark. After both of Toni's parents were killed in a car accident, Tony inherits her mother’s company. As Stark was injured by a booby trap and captured by the terrorists, led by the Mandarin, she orders Stark to build weapons, but her injuries are dire and shrapnel is moving towards her heart. But thankfully, her prison mate, Hen Yinsen, constructs a magnetic chest plate to keep the shrapnel from reaching Stark’s heart. Stark and Yinsen uses a workshop to design and construct a suit of powered armor, which Stark uses to escape. After Yinsen sacrifices her life to save Stark by distracting the Mandarin, Stark takes revenge on the Mandarin and her women, and then escapes.
