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han was born on 7 April 1954, in British Hong Kong, as Chan Kong-sang, to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, refugees from the Chinese Civil War. He was nicknamed Pao-pao Chinese: 炮炮 ("Cannonball") because the energetic child was always rolling around.[6] His parents worked for the French ambassador in Hong Kong, and Chan spent his formative years within the grounds of the consul's residence in the Victoria Peak district.[7]
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 emigrated 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.[7][8] Chan trained rigorously for the next decade, excelling in martial arts and acrobatics.[9] 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, and the three of them later became known as the Three Brothers or Three Dragons.[10] After entering the film industry, Chan along with Sammo Hung got the opportunity to train in hapkido under the grand master Jin Pal Kim, and Chan eventually attained a black belt.[11] Jackie Chan also trained in other styles of martial arts such as karate, judo, taekwondo, and Jeet Kune Do.
He began his career by appearing in small roles at the age of five as a child actor. At age eight, he appeared with some of his fellow "Little Fortunes" in the film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962) with Li Li-Hua playing his mother. Chan appeared with Li again the following year, in The Love Eterne (1963) and had a small role in King Hu's 1966 film Come Drink with Me.[12] In 1971, after an appearance as an extra in another kung fu film, A Touch of Zen, Chan was signed to Chu Mu's Great Earth Film Company.[13] At seventeen, he worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the stage name Chan Yuen Lung (Chinese: 陳元龍).[14] He received his first starring role later that year in Little Tiger of Canton that had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973.[15] In 1975, due to the commercial failures of his early ventures into films and trouble finding stunt work, Chan starred in a comedic adult film All in the Family in which Chan appears in his first nude sex scene. It is the only film he has made to date without a single fight scene or stunt sequence.[16] Jackie Chan later also appeared in one other sex scene, in Shinjuku Incident.
Chan joined his parents in Canberra in 1976, where he briefly attended Dickson College and worked as a construction worker.[17] A fellow builder named Jack took Chan under his wing, thus earning Chan the nickname of "Little Jack" that was later shortened to "Jackie", and the name Jackie Chan has stuck with him ever since.[18] In the late 1990s, Chan changed his Chinese name to Fong Si-lung (Chinese: 房仕龍), since his father's original surname was Fong.[18]
One day someone offered him a job as a specialist in a movie. At nineteen was double Chen Yuen Long in credits- in Fist of Fury (1972) and Enter the Dragon (1973), both starring Bruce Lee. Moreover, in the latter film, Chan has a short appearance as one of the attackers Lee's character breaks his neck. Before his twentieth birthday, Chan had already participated in more than 25 productions and became a stunt coordinator and doubles.
In 1973, Bruce Lee died and he emerged as his replacement in the public eye, something he did not like too much. Therefore, he decided to change registration and adopt a more comic style, how the US Buster Keaton. It was then that he began to really succeed. In the late 70s, Chan ventured as writer, director and producer, which happened to have more control over the end result of many of his films. China (1980), directed by himself, set the tone for his later films: an effective mix of comedy, action and traditional martial arts.
In 1975, at the age of 21 he started acting in pornographic films to pay their bills, the actor said he had to do everything to sobrevivir.2 March 4
In 1978, with the filming of The Drunken Monkey in the eye of the tiger, Chan gave tribute to the Taoist martial art of Kung Fu drunken monkey or Kung Fu drunken style, also known as the Kung Fu of the eight drunken immortals or "Tsui pa Tsien "this style is considered as his martial art base. Since it includes numerous maneuvers falls, bumps moving bearings and acrobatics.
Chan was gradually conquering the Asian and European public with titles such as Pirates in the China Seas (1983), The supercamorristas (1984) (recorded in Spain) or invincible Weapons (1985). Until in 1996 he bursts the US box office with Uproar in the Bronx, an adventure in which he confronted a gang of thugs from the Bronx. The success was repeated two years later with Jackie Chan Rush Hour and went on to become the most triumphant Asian actor in Hollywood. imminent Impact (1996), Shanghai Kid (2000) and its sequel Shanghai Knights (2003), Rush Hour 2 (2001), Around the World in 80 Days (2004) or the remake of The Karate Kid (2010) by the son of Will Smith are some of his best known films; It is his 100th film, the historic 1911 film, shot in (2012) in which he plays one of the heroes of the beginnings of the Chinese republic.
Jackie Chan on December 2, 2002.Jackie Chan is one of the few actors, along with the Thai Tony Jaa, making martial arts movies without any double that will serve as support during filming: does his own stunts and has accumulated an impressive list of injuries, including a sprained ankle, a fissure hip and a knee sprain, to prove it. His closest time to death was during the filming of "Armour of God" in 1985 when he fell from a tree and fractured his skull. He has also made other scenes so shocking risk as jumping from a mountain of 1300 meters on a hot air balloon, jumping off a moving bus in a through a glass wall or jump a car (which would 30km / h) warehouse I was going to run over..............