Age: 72
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Jackie Chan (Chinese: 成龍; born 7 April 1954), Chan Kong-sang, is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, filmmaker, comedian, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. Jackie Chan has been acting since the 1970s and has appeared in over 100 films. Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a cultural icon, Chan has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. Chan is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred. Chan was born on April 7, 1954, in Victoria Peak, in the former Crown colony of Hong Kong, as Chan Kong-sang (meaning "born in Hong Kong") to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, refugees from the Chinese Civil War. He was nicknamed Paopao (Chinese: 炮炮, literally meaning "Cannonball") because he was such a big baby, weighing 12 pounds, or about 5.4 kgs. Since his parents worked for the French Consul to Hong Kong, Chan spent his formative years within the grounds of the consul's residence in the Victoria Peak district. 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 immigrated 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. Chan trained rigorously for the next decade, excelling in martial arts and acrobatics. 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, the three of them later to be known as the Three Brothers or Three Dragons. At the age of 17, he worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the stage name Chan Yuen Lung. He received his first starring role later that year, in Little Tiger of Canton, which had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973.
Jackie Chan
Han Shifu
for Han Shifu in Karate Kid: Breath of the Cobra
Suggested by mileybiddle
In the heart of the San Fernando Valley, a new kind of danger emerges. Demons, creatures of darkness, begin to appear in the dead of night, terrorizing innocent people. As the familiar rivalry between Miyagi-Do, Eagle Fang, and Cobra Kai intensifies, a new, more dangerous challenge arises: a supernatural force that even the toughest martial artists can’t easily defeat. Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence are forced to put aside their differences when they realize that their students are at risk from these monsters. But when a group of Demon Slayers, led by Tanjiro Kamado and his sister Nezuko, arrives from Japan, the two martial arts legends quickly realize their skills are no match for these creatures. With the help of the Demon Slayer Corps, they must train their students to harness powerful techniques known as the Breath Styles, blending their karate with new, otherworldly abilities. However, Terry Silver, ever the manipulator, sees an opportunity to use the demons to his advantage. Seeking ultimate power, Silver strikes a dangerous deal with an Upper Moon Demon, gaining supernatural abilities that make him even more ruthless than before. As Cobra Kai becomes a breeding ground for demon-enhanced warriors, Daniel, Johnny, and their students must choose: will they embrace the power of the demons, or fight back and defend their world from a threat that could destroy everything they know?
