| Native name | 成龍 | |
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| Born | Chan Kong-sang7 April 1954 (age 65) Victoria Peak, British Hong Kong | |
| Residence | Hong Kong | |
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| Other names | Big Brother (大哥)Fong Si-lung | |
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| Occupation | Martial artist,actor, director, producer, screenwriter, action-choreographer, singer, stunt director, stunt performer |
JACKIE CHAN edit
DETAILS edit
Jackie Chan, originally name Chan Kong-sang, (born April 7, 1954, Hong Kong).He is Hong Kong-born Chinese stuntman, actor, and director whose perilous acrobatic stunts and engaging physical humour made him an action-film star in Asia and helped to bring kung fu movies into the mainstream of American cinema.
EARLY LIFE edit
Actor, martial artist and producer Jackie Chan was born Chan Kong-sang on April 7, 1954, in Hong Kong, China. When his parents moved to Australia to find new jobs, the 7-year-old Chan was left behind to study at the Chinese Opera Research Institute, a Hong Kong boarding school. For the next 10 years, Chan studied martial arts, drama, acrobatics and singing, and was subjected to stringent discipline, including corporal punishment for poor performance. He appeared in his first film, the Cantonese feature Big and Little Wong Tin Bar[1] (1962), when he was only eight, and went on to appear in a number of musical films.From ages 7 to 17 he studied acrobatics, singing, martial arts, and mime-skills that launched him into a position with a professional tumbling troupe and landed him bit roles as a child actor and, later, as a stuntman.
FILM CAREER edit
His film producer Lo Wei, found a successor to the late Bruce Lee, cast him in a series of lacklustre kung fu movies in 1976–78. Rather than Lee’s gritty persona, Chan utilized his own form of bumbling physical comedy in his first successful films, Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow(1978) and Drunken Master (1978). He moved beyond traditional martial arts period movies to modern action-adventure films, such as Project A (1983) and Police Story (1985), along with their sequels. The films showcased his directorial talent for fight and stunt choreography. His own stunts were often extraordinarily dangerous; he nearly perished from a fall in Armour of God (1986) that fractured his skull and impaired his hearing.
In the 1990s Chan finally broke into American market. He received Lifetime Achievement Award from the cable network MTV in 1995, and the following year his blockbuster movies are listed :-
•Rumble in the Bronx (1995) was released in the United States, along with classic Hong Kong titles. •Chan’s American comedian movie along with Chris Tucker , Rush Hour (1998), which everyone enjoyed and was great deal of success and launched two sequels (2001 and 2007).
Chan continued to work with both the Hollywood system and in Hong Kong cinema. In United States he worked in different films such as:-
•Shanghai Noon (2000), •The Tuxedo (2002), •The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), •The Spy Next Door (2010). •Chan made a remake of the 1984 action-drama The Karate Kid (2010) and later in the revenge thriller The Foreigner (2017). •He did voice work animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008) also in its sequels (2011 and 2016); •The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017); •The LEGO Ninjago Movie (2017). •Chinese-language movies Xin jing cha gu shi (2004; New Police Story), Bo bui gai wak (2006; Baby), and Xinhai geming (2011; 1911), a historical drama in which he starred as Chinese revolutionary Huang Xing.
In 2016 Chan became the first Chinese actor to receive an honorary Academy Award, which recognized his “distinctive international career.” In addition to acting, Chan pursued a career in the Hong Kong music industry, releasing a number of original albums beginning in 1984. He founded the Jackie Chan Charitable Organization in 1998, which, among other projects, offers scholarships to Hong Kong youths, and he worked as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. 1.[2]