Jackie Chan
Acting
Born 1954-04-07
Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
290 credits
Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor 2
American Choreography Awards 1
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 2 Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor Awards
Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor 2 won
- 1992 Best Leading Actor Won Supercop
- 1983 Best Leading Actor Won Crime Story
American Choreography Awards 1 won
- — American Choreography Awards Won
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1 won
- — Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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Jackie Chan (Chinese: 成龍; born 7 April 1954), Chan Kong-sang, is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, filmmaker, comedian, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. Jackie Chan has been acting since the 1970s and has appeared in over 100 films.
Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a cultural icon, Chan has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. Chan is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred.
Chan was born on April 7, 1954, in Victoria Peak, in the former Crown colony of Hong Kong, as Chan Kong-sang (meaning "born in Hong Kong") to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, refugees from the Chinese Civil War. He was nicknamed Paopao (Chinese: 炮炮, literally meaning "Cannonball") because he was such a big baby, weighing 12 pounds, or about 5.4 kgs. Since his parents worked for the French Consul to Hong Kong, Chan spent his formative years within the grounds of the consul's residence in the Victoria Peak district. Chan attended the Nah-Hwa Primary School on Hong Kong Island, where he failed his first year, after which his parents withdrew him from the school.
In 1960, his father immigrated to Canberra, Australia, to work as the head cook for the American embassy, and Chan was sent to the China Drama Academy, a Peking Opera School run by Master Yu Jim-yuen. Chan trained rigorously for the next decade, excelling in martial arts and acrobatics. He eventually became part of the Seven Little Fortunes, a performance group made up of the school's best students, gaining the stage name Yuen Lo in homage to his master. Chan became close friends with fellow group members Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, the three of them later to be known as the Three Brothers or Three Dragons. At the age of 17, he worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the stage name Chan Yuen Lung. He received his first starring role later that year, in Little Tiger of Canton, which had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973.
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Filmography
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Acting
50 credits
The Daily Show
Late Show with David Letterman
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
The Shadow's Edge
The Graham Norton Show
Wetten, dass..?
The Kapil Sharma Show
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Jackie Chan Adventures
The One Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Kung Fu Panda
SMAP×SMAP
Vivement dimanche
Steve
Martin
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Rush Hour
The Karate Kid
Kung Fu Panda 2
Kung Fu Panda 3
Chelsea
Rush Hour 2
Golden Horse Awards
Karate Kid: Legends
Rush Hour 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Tuxedo
The Foreigner
Armour of God
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Shanghai Noon
Enter the Dragon
Celebrity Talk Show
The Forbidden Kingdom
Fist of Fury
Hidden Strike
The Legend of Drunken Master
Who Am I?
Police Story
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
Rumble in the Bronx
Iron Mask
Drunken Master
Panda Plan
Police Story 4: First Strike
Shanghai Knights
Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe
Wheels on Meals
Other credits
14 credits
Running Man
Rush Hour
Trump Card
TFI Friday
Voice
Memories Beyond Horizon
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Armour of God
Enter the Dragon
Fist of Fury
CMG Spring Festival Gala
Who Am I?
Game of Death
Chef Nic
Producing
6 credits
Directing
4 credits
Writing
2 credits
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