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Jackie Chan

Actor, filmmaker, stunt performer and singer

Born 1954

Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong actor, director, producer, action choreographer, stunt performer and singer who transformed screen fighting by combining martial arts, acrobatics, prop work and physical comedy. Born Chan Kong-sang, he entered the China Drama Academy at seven and spent a decade studying Peking Opera performance, martial arts, acrobatics, acting and singing. After child roles and stunt work, he rejected attempts to cast him as another Bruce Lee and developed a comic, vulnerable action persona in Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow and Drunken Master. Project A and Police Story consolidated a hands-on filmmaking method built around the JC Stunt Team, elaborate practical set pieces and visible outtakes. Rumble in the Bronx and Rush Hour later made him a global star, while his career expanded through directing, producing, animation voice work, music, philanthropy and a memoir. In 2025 he returned as Mr. Han in Karate Kid: Legends and received Locarno’s Pardo alla Carriera. His 2026 work includes leading the drama Unexpected Family and the comedy sequel Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe, releasing the song Congratulations to Myself, making his operatic directing debut with Turandot, and filming Armour of God: Ultimatum in Kazakhstan.

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ConnectionJoan LinWife since 1982 and a recurring subject in Chan’s accounts of family life.

ConnectionJaycee ChanSon and fellow actor and singer.

ConnectionChris TuckerCo-star across the Rush Hour trilogy.

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Never Grow UpJackie Chan with Zhu Mo

Authored memoir; exact Gallery Books trade-paperback edition.

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Mandarin songs

In a 2001 first-person essay, he said he found their words touching and poetic.

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Soup · Vegetables · Fruit · Mango · Bread · Croissants

A 2025 first-person snapshot, not a permanent meal plan.

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Punching, kicking, choreography and prop work, sometimes lasting about three hours

Described in a 2025 first-person interview; intensity varies with the work.

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Less steak and organ meat; more soup, vegetables and fruit

Described in 2025 as a personal change with age, not a prescribed diet.

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Ten dogs

A 2024 direct-interview statement; current names were not published.

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