Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7th,1954. His parents Charles and Lee-lee Chan named him Chan Kong sang which means "Born in Hong Kong" when he was born and his mother get surgery to deliver him. Jackie's parents were so poor that they had to borrow money from  friends to pay the doctor.
the Chan family  lived on Victoria peak in Hong Kong . when Jackie was young , his father would wake him early in the morning and together they would practice Kung fu. Charles Chan believed  that learning Kung fu would help build Jackie's character . when  Jackie was  7 years old  Charles took a job as the head cook at the American embassy in Australia.

He   felt   that   it    would   be     best for      Jackie   to   stay  behind in Hong Kong to learn a skill and  so enrolled him in the China Drama Academy where   Jackie   would    live   for   the  next  ten    years    of   his    life .

While at the  China Academy , Jackie made his acting debut  at the age of 8 in the Cantonese movie "Seven Little Valiant Fighters: Big and  Little Wong Tin Bar" he later teamed with other opera students in a performance group called " The Seven Little Fortunes".During Jackie's time  at the School , he learned martial arts ,acrobatics, singing and acting.

When Jackie was seventeen, he graduated from the China Drama Academy .Over the next few years ,Jackie worked as a stuntman ,but when the Hong Kong movies industry began to fail , he was forced to go to Australia to live with his parents. he worked in a restaurant and on a construction site.it was there that he got  the name "Jackie" A worker named Jack had trouble pronouncing "Kong-Sang" and started calling Jackie "little Jack." That soon became  Jackie and the name stuck.

Jackie  was  becoming a huge success in Asia .unfortunately it would be many years before the same could be said of his popularity in America.After a series of lukewarm reception in the united states, mostly  due to miscasting ,Jackie left the United States  and focused his attention  on making  movies in Hong Kong . It would be  ten  years before he  returned to make  Rumble in the Bronx , the movie that introduced  Jackie to  American  audiences and secured him a place in their hearts  and their Box office . Rumble  was followed by  the Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon series which put Jackie on the  Hollywood A List.  regards to Jackie Chan's official website