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Biography

Jackie Chan is Asia's biggest box office star for more than 20 years before he became a household name in the West by starring in such blockbuster hits as two "Rush Hour" films and the "Shanghai" series. He has also produced, starred in, and directed over a dozen other action films that found an audience in the U.S., including "Rumble in the Bronx", "First Strike", "Super Cop", "Operation Condor", "Crime Story", "Mr Nice Guy" and "Armor of God". He most recently starred in the action-comedy "The Tuxedo" and is now working on the remake of Jules Verne's classic "Around The World in 80 Days."

Born in Hong Kong, to working class parents Chan trained at the Peking Opera School from the age of seven to seventeen, where he learned the various skills required for Chinese opera such as acrobatics, gymnastics, martial arts, weaponry, dance singing and dramatics. By the time Chan graduated, Chinese opera was declining in popularity and he gravitated into films.

In the early seventies, Chan worked as a stunt player and an action director. Inspired by great film clowns like Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Chan has invented a unique style for film combining humor and death-defying stunts that American films are only now attempting. A superb martial artist and acrobat, Chan has built his legend by putting his life on the line for his movies. In the montage of outtakes, which typically end his films, fans see the proof that Jackie Chan is still his own most amazing special effect.

He is the hero of the syndicated animated television series" Jackie Chan Adventures" and is the recipient of MTV's Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to writing, acting and directing, Chan has a successful singing career and is active in numerous charities in Hong Kong and surrounding Asian countries.

In 2002, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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