Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on 7th April 1954. He was named Chan Kong San. When Jackie Chan was & ears old he sold by his parents to Chinese opera house. At the opera house he learned many things like the martial arts and how to sing. After his 10 years at the opera house he left. At 17 he started in the movies as a stunt man, but later he started making his own movies, those first few movies were flops because there were not orignal, they were copies of Bruce Lee's style, they were copies because Jackie was hyped as being the heir to Bruce Lee. But later Jackie created his own style by incorporating physical comedy with cool stunts and awsome action, this created his own style and that made him a sucees in the Asian movie market.
In the early eighties Jackie Chan tried to make it big in the United States by making movies in here, but they were all flops because he was trying too much to be like the american action movie star, which as you probally know is not his style. In 1994, MTV honored Chan with a lifetime achievement award for his action-oriented movies, in Febuary of 1996 Jackie Chan released "Rumble in the Bronx, which in its first week top the box office with a weekend gross of $11 million.
Jackie Chan is the living legend and certenly the greatest star of Hong Kong cinema.Chan was born of humle origin in mainland China and indentured as a child in the peking opera, he was a teenage member of the famous troupe called the Seven Little Fortune, which included Samo Hung and Yen Biao who also mauted into giants of Hong Kong cinema. Jackie Chan has over the years developed his own unique style incorporating amazing action with a strong comic bias. Jackie Chan has both directed and starred in a string of international hits, since his breakthroug with the Drunken Master...
Jackie Chan is the living legend and certenly the greatest star of Hong Kong cinema.Chan was born of humle origin in mainland China and indentured as a child in the peking opera, he was a teenage member of the famous troupe called the Seven Little Fortune, which included Samo Hung and Yen Biao who also mauted into giants of Hong Kong cinema. Jackie Chan has over the years developed his own unique style incorporating amazing action with a strong comic bias. Jackie Chan has both directed and starred in a string of international hits, since his breakthroug with the Drunken Master...
In conclusion Jakie chan is great fighting actor. However he passed a lot of problems he made a great success, and became great actor in the world.