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your favorite actors and athletes. In today's video, let's take a look at the career and some
interesting facts about one of the most popular action film stars of all time, Jackie Chan.
Fang Shilong, born Chan Kong-sang and known professionally as Jackie Chan,
is a Hong Kong-born Chinese actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman. He was born on
April 7, 1954 in Victoria Peak, British Hong Kong and is now 67 years old.
Chan is one of the most recognizable and influential film personalities in the world,
with a widespread global following in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. He has been
acting since the 1960s, performing in more than 150 films and is known for his slapstick acrobatic
fighting style, comic timing, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself.
Chan was born to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, refugees from the Chinese Civil War.
He grew up on the grounds of the French consul, as his parents worked for the French ambassador.
Chan was enrolled in the China Drama Academy not long after he failed his first year of primary
school. In this school, Chan learned acrobatics and martial arts for the first time,
excelling in both areas and becoming one of the school's brightest students.
In the late '70s, Jackie Chan moved to Australia,
where his parents were working for the American embassy.
He worked as a construction worker for a time, and this is when he earned the nickname "Jackie."
Chan married Joan Lin Feng-jiao, a Taiwanese actress in 1982. Their son,
singer and actor Jaycee Chan, was born that same year.
Chan has an illegitimate daughter named Etta Ng Chok Lam born in 1999,
the result of his affair with Miss Asia 1990 Elaine Wu.
This turned into a scandal within the media and one of the biggest scandals of Chan’s career.
Jackie Chan's career in acting started off when he was a little boy of 5,
where he would make appearances as a child actor. After a slew of other minor roles,
Chan was signed to Great Earth Film Company and worked as a stuntman, which was proven to be a
valuable launching platform for his later career. A major breakthrough came when Jackie Chan was
able to put his trademark comedic skills to use in the 1978's The Snake in the Eagle's Shadow.
The same year, he also starred in Drunken Master, which was one of Jackie Chan's
most iconic performances and finally propelled him to mainstream success.
After a number of other similar films, Chan was ready to tackle the international film industry.
With help from manager Willie Chan, the actor started to land roles in Hollywood blockbusters,
starting with The Big Brawl in 1980. Chan frequently traveled back to Hong Kong to work on
various films and started to experiment with even more daring stunts, and this gained the attention
of an international audience. This continued into the 90s and the 2000s, and Jackie Chan
slowly became a sought-after addition to various Hollywood movies. His Hollywood breakthroughs
including movies like Rush Hour series, Shanghai Noon and its sequel Shanghai Knight,
The Forbidden Kingdom, The Karate Kid and more. Chan has received global recognition for his film
acting and stunt work. His accolades include the Innovator Award from the
American Choreography Awards and a lifetime achievement award from the Taurus World Stunt
Awards. He has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars.
Here is the top 10 list of Jackie Chan's best movies of his career, according to IMDb:
As of 2022, Jackie Chan's net worth is at $520 million.
Besides his houses in Beijing, the film star also owns real estate in California,
Miami, Australia, Phuket island and Hong Kong. The French inspired villa in Beverly Hills,
California worth $3 million is one of his houses. The lavish house features 6 bedrooms,
5 bathroom, 3 fireplaces, a pool and many amenities.
Jackie may be one of the most simple-looking and humble celebrities you know but the man has an
eye for style, and his Lamborghini Aventador is a proof to that. The design of this Aventador
was done according to Jackie Chan’s taste and preference, with a Titanium Gray color while
the calipers of the brake are coated in red. As one of the best Lamborghinis ever to be created,
and probably the most priced car in Jackie's collection; it's worth a costly $354,000.
Jackie Chan and Mitsubishi have a special kind of relationship.
So much so, that Mitsubishi even named a car after him and made only 50 Jackie
Chan Special Edition Evos IX, with a starting price of a whopping $77,000.
Jackie Chan's favorite car from his collection is said to be Subaru Impreza WRX STI.
It might not be the most glamorous or fastest car
on the block but it sure is reliable and priced at a reasonable $32,000.
Jackie Chan is probably best known as an action star, but he's also a talented singer.
He is an operatically trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star,
having released a number of music albums and sung many of the theme
songs for the films in which he has starred. Chan speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, English,
and American Sign Language and also speaks some German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Thai.
In his early film career, Jackie Chan got to work on stunt co-ordinations with famous martial
arts superstar Bruce Lee in two different films including the classic film Enter The Dragon. "He
influenced me a lot,” said Chan in an interview. "I admired him, and the way he would talk."
Since 2013, Chan has been a pro-Communist politician, serving in the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference. After the Hong Kong electoral reform in 2021,
Chan became an Election Committee member and could vote for the Chief Executive.
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