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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
Action and Stunt Coordinator
for Action and Stunt Coordinator in Spider-Man: Surge of Vengeance
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Three months into his life as Spider-Man, Peter Parker is still learning what it means to be a hero — and how much it’s already cost him. Still reeling from Uncle Ben’s death, Peter struggles to balance his double life as a broke high school student and a masked vigilante hunted by both criminals and the police. When an Oscorp electrical engineer named Max Dillon is caught in a catastrophic accident that turns him into a living conduit of raw energy, New York becomes a city on edge. Transformed by pain and rejection, Max becomes Electro, a man who can manipulate power itself — and who blames Spider-Man for the chaos that defines his existence. Spider-Man: Surge of Vengeance dives into the raw, violent heart of Peter’s first year behind the mask. As Electro electrifies the city’s grid, turning Manhattan into a neon battlefield, Peter faces a new kind of enemy — not just superpowered, but human, scarred, and driven by the same anger that once defined him. The R-rated intensity lays bare the consequences of heroism: shattered bones, burned skin, and moral lines crossed in the name of survival. In the film’s harrowing climax, Peter must choose between saving the city that fears him and saving the man who mirrors his own broken soul — proving that being Spider-Man isn’t about power, but the price you’re willing to pay for it.
