Jackie Chan

 Jackie Chan

His birth name is Chan Khong sang.

He is an actor and martial artist he was born on April 7th 1954 in Victoria Peak Hong Kong.

His father's name was Charles and mother's name was Lily Chan.

His parents were the refugees from the Chinese Civil War and worked for the French ambassador in Hong Kong.

In 1960 Chan's father was sent to Canberra Australia to work for the American Embassy around this time Chan was sent to the Chinese opera Research Institute in Hong Kong to be trained in music dance and traditional martial arts in 1962. 

At the age of 8 along with the fellow mates from the performance group Chan appeared in the movie called big and little warmth invar, this led to his appearance in another movie next year called the love atern.

 

Subsequently he kept making small appearances in movies like come and drink with me and a touch of sin

 He also had a brief stint as stuntman in Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon at the age of 19 in 1973 Chan got his first major role in the movie little tiger of Canton and then he starred in a comedy movie called all in the family

In 1976 he joined his family in Australia and started working as a construction worker there he got the name Jackie in Australia because a fellow construction worker called Jack took him under his watch in 1976. 

Chan got an opportunity from a film producer in Hong Kong called Willy Chan to work in his movie as a stuntman the film was called new Fist of Fury and it had Shannon in the main lead in 1978 Chan worked in the movie called snake in the Eagles shadow which proved to be a major success in his film career.

In the year 1978 he was declared to be the most popular martial arts superstar in all of the Asia in 1980 he directed his first movie the young master in 1982 he directed and starred in another venture called the Dragon Lord.

In 1982 Chan married the Taiwanese actress lin Fang chow also known as Jolin in the same year they had a son Jaycee Chan who is a singer and actor. 

In 1983 Chan starred in the movie project day which included the dangerous stunt driven style of martial arts this movie was declared as the winner of the best action design award at the third annual Hong Kong Film Awards in 1985. 

Chan produced and directed as well as starting Police Story which was a Hollywood influenced action comedy Chan formulated the Jackie Chan stuntmen association in the year of 1985 in 1987 he acted and directed the movie armour of God which became his biggest domestic success at the box office.

Chan formed the production company called the golden way from 1988 to 1998 huge number of offers started coming his way all the way from the Hollywood like rumble in the Bronx police story – armor of God - Operation Condor Police Story three super cop drunken master in police story for first strike initially.

Chan was offered to play villain in Hollywood movies but he declined the role won the Best Actor Award at the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival for his role in the movie police story 3 super cop in 1998 Chan starred in the Hollywood movie rush hour which was a huge hit at the box office Chan voiced the character Zhang in a movie Newland and sang its original soundtrack.

In 2003 he teamed up with the British comedian Li Evans and Claire Forlani in the movie the medallion in 2004. 

He worked in the movie called around a world in 80 days which was a decent success at the box office in the Year 2005.

 

His releases like the Humana chronicles blade of the rose new Police Story the myth and Robin B Hood won the best actor award at the 2005 golden rooster Awards for the movie new Police Story in 2007 rush hour three grossed over 258 million U.S dollars in which Chan starred with Roman Polanski in 2011.

 The Karate Kid was remade starring Chan and Will Smith's son Jaden Smith in it earning over three hundred fifty eight million u.s. dollars received the butt kicker award at the Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards in the year 2011 for this film the 100th movie of his career 1911 was released in 2011.

Jackie is not just an actor but a martial artist film director producer singer stunt director and performer 

He started acting at the age of five his father Charles was a spy for Chinese Nationalist government his mother Lili was a stage performer who sold opium on the side because he was an energetic child he was nicknamed pow pow which means cannonball 

Chan failed his first year in primary school Jacky was left in a boarding school while the parents went to Australia in search of work 

Jackie has released 20 albums since 1984 and has performed vocals in Cantonese Mandarin Japanese Taiwanese and English no company ensures Chan or his team he pays it for himself and his stunt team 

Jacky once spent two days after a fight trying to push his bone back into his fists but later realized it was the other guy's tooth.

He won a Guinness World Record for most stunts by a living actor during armour of God. 

He was in an accident and has permanent plastic plug in his skull he once broke twelve concrete blocks with his hand while keeping the egg he was holding intact he is a big fan of Charlie Chaplin Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

Jackie Chan used to carry multiple guns and even a grenade to protect himself and his other artists from the Triad in the 1980s and 1990s.

He loves giving thumbs-up Jackie Chan's son will get none of his $130 million fortune. 

Chan is a follower of the Buddhist religion he can speak many languages like Cantonese Mandarin English German Korean Japanese Spanish Thai etc.