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== Personal life ==

Woo is a private individual, and prefers to avoid discussing his personal life.<ref name="Asiaweek_HavisSeno1997" /> Despite his films' subject matter, he considers himself a pacifist who dislikes violence.<ref name="BrightLightsFilmJournal_Sandell1994" /><ref name="TheIndependent_Jackson1993" /> In a 1997 interview, he admitted that he had never fired a gun before in his life.<ref name="SCMP_Havis2022_JohnWooInterview" />

Woo is married to Anne Niu Chung-lung ({{Zh|c=牛春龍|labels=no}}), a former script supervisor for Chang Cheh whom Woo had first met in 1975.<ref name=":4" /> They married in Los Angeles on 5 March 1976.{{sfn|Elder|2005|p=xvii|loc=Chronology}}<ref name="SCMP_2003" />

Woo is married to Anne Niu Chung-lung ({{Zh|c=牛春龍|labels=no}}), a former script supervisor for Chang Cheh whom Woo had first met in 1975.<ref name=":4" /> They married in Los Angeles on 5 March 1976,{{sfn|Elder|2005|p=xvii|loc=Chronology}}<ref name="SCMP_2003" /> moving to the [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades]] neighbourhood in 1992 once Woo began working in Hollywood.<ref name="TheNewYorkTimes_Weinraub1997" /><ref name="ChicagoTribune_Elder2002" /> The couple have three children together. Their middle child, Angeles Woo Fei-shai ({{Zh|c=吳飛霞|labels=no}}, born 1978 in Los Angeles),{{sfn|Elder|2005|p=xvii|loc=Chronology}} is working in the film industry. She has directed some short films of her own,<ref name="SCMP_2003" /> and has had small acting roles in some of her father's movies.<ref name="AsiaOne_2014" /><ref name="YonhapNewsAgency_Shim2017" /> Woo became an American citizen on 12 January 1999.{{sfn|Elder|2005|p=xviii|loc=Chronology}}

In 2012, Woo took an extended leave of absence from work to deal with a health problem. Both ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' and ''[[The Straits Times]]'' reported that he had throat cancer.<ref name="Variety_Frater2014_WooSetsCrossingRelease" /><ref name="TheStraitsTimes_Lui2014" /> However, Woo denied this in May of that year, claiming that doctors had found and removed a benign tonsil [[Neoplasm|tumour]] that was not [[Malignancy|malignant]].<ref name="InformationTimes_Sina_2012" />

* Woo is married to Anne Chung-lung Niu ({{Zh|c=牛春龍|labels=no}})

* She had been a script supervisor for Chang Cheh, and had been receiving training from actor Chung Chang's film school when she and Woo first met in 1975<ref name=":4">[[#Elder2004Interview|Elder 2005]]</ref>