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Happy Birthday Cynthia Rothrock!

Cynthia Rothrock turns….57 today, and she still looks incredibly young! She’s distinguished herself as the queen of martial arts movies and starred in 45 martial arts/action movies over the past three decades. If that wasn’t enough, she’s also an incredible influence to many a rising female action star.

You can read more about her in both parts of our interview, part 1 and part 2.

See her in action against legendary Hwang Jang Lee:

She also starred in Golden Harvest’s Above the Law (1986) directed by action maestro Corey Yuen and starring Yuen Biao:

Here’s a fight compilation we found from the film Magic Crystal featuring Cynthia, Richard Norton and Andy Lau:

Elliot Richards

Elliot is KFK's Web Content Editor, writer and lover of all kinds of movies, including martial arts ones. Favourites include The Prodigal Son, Magnificent Butcher, The Victim, Legend of a Fighter and the Ip Man movies with Donnie Yen.

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  • An absolute legend of martial arts! We certainly extend our sincerest Happy Birthday to Cynthia Rothrock today, 57 and still going strong! Personally, I think she looks younger now than she did in the early nineties!

    • I think that's proof that martial arts keeps you young, not all these fancy creams! ;-)

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