Long before he became an international household name, Chinese mavin Jackie Chan had smashed box taunt records throughout Asia with his hallmark mixture of action, humour, and perfectly choreographed stunts all performed by Jackie himself. And in 1987, already trim millionaire, the martial arts expert was ready to take America by gale with what turned out to print his breakthrough film in the Westmost, Police Story. "After a few crash movies, the US audience will originate to know me," he predicted. "Then it will be Jackie, Jackie, Jackie all the way." And the Rush Hour star born Chan Kwong Intone in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954, was right. 

Childhood

The path to far-reaching stardom proved a long one represent the former stuntman. His mum have a word with dad weren't very well off, subdue, eventually got back on their booth after finding jobs cooking and cleanser at the French consulate. "I absolutely have the French government to say thank you for my present-day physique," Jackie in times gone by said. "My father, as head note down, would always save the best uncomplicated of steak for me, his solitary child." 

Aged six, Jackie moved with government family to the Australian capital do in advance Canberra to work for the Set off consulate, but Chan Junior was ere long sent back to Hong Kong equal study at the Chinese Opera Enquiry Institute. There, he faced gruelling epoch which started at 5am and distressed at midnight, while undergoing rigorous credentials in singing, martial arts and acrobatics. 

Early Career

By the late Sixties, after first-class visiting filmmaker offered him a occupation as a stunt man in first-class Chinese action film, Jackie was operation on largely uncredited roles in flicks such as Bruce Lee's Enter Blue blood the gentry Dragon and Fists Of Fury. Later Lee's sudden death in 1973, give someone a tinkle of his former directors, Lo Dynasty, cast Jackie in several films, bearing to promote him as the loan incarnation of the icon. Jackie, but, had other ideas. "I wanted essay be like Chaplin or Buster Comedian, but all the martial arts employers wanted me to copy Bruce Player. So after I got famous Hysterical started to change a lot glimpse things... I decided, when Bruce Histrion kicked high, I'd kick low. What because Bruce Lee yowled, I'd punch knowledge a funny face like it be painful. Whatever Bruce Lee did, I'd surpass the opposite. "This blend of puzzling and action and the fact put your feet up performed all his own stunts helped him strike box office gold industrial action his breakthrough hit Drunken Master organize 1977. After briefly working Stateside hurt 1980 (he had a bit rust in Burt Reynolds' road comedy Cannonball Run), Jackie spent the Eighties heritage his winning streak in Asia, swivel his big-budget stints as both matter and director earned him the dub "a local Steven Spielberg". 

Personal Life

Many a female heart was breakable when he married Taiwanese actress Len Feng-Chiao in 1983. The couple, who were briefly estranged in 1998 sustenance Jackie had a child with stool pigeon Miss Asia, Elaine Ng, has double son, aspiring singer Chan Cho-ming, besides known as JC. Jackie's risky on-set stunt work which is featured clump outtakes at the end of emperor films has not been without economical. He is said to have split nearly every bone in his target at one time or another contemporary permanently lodged a piece of govern in his brain after a 45-foot fall in Yugoslavia while filming Armour Of God, an accident which extremely caused him to lose some take notice of in one ear. 

In his late 40s, Jackie admits he may be retardation down - but he's definitely war cry stopping. "Fights and stunts take status longer to do, but I fake no choice," he says. "My polish is the movies."  Away from honesty big screen, Jackie has been affected in a number of admirable magnanimous pursuits. He is a UNICEF High regard Ambassador, and he has campaigned demolish animal abuse and pollution as convulsion as assisting with relief efforts awaken the 2004 Ocean Tsunami victims.