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Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong actor, known for his acrobatic fighting style which he typically performs himself. Here're 45 facts about him:
- Jackie Chan was born on April 7 1954.
- His birth name is Chan Kong-sang.
- Jackie is not just an actor but a martial artist, film director, producer, singer stunt director and performer.
- He started acting at the age of five.
- His father Charles was a spy for Chinese Nationalist government.
- His mother Lee-Lee was a stage performer who sold opium on the side.
- Because he was an energetic child he was nicknames Pao-pao which means Cannonball.
- Chan failed his first year in primary school.
- Jackie was left in a boarding school while the parents went to Australia in search of work.
- Jackie has released 20 albums since 1984 and has performed vocals in Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Taiwanese and English.
- No company insures Chan or his team. He pays it for himself and his stunt team.
- Jackie once spent two days after a fight trying to push his bone back into his fist but later realized it was the other guy's tooth.
- He won a Guinness World record for "Most stunts by a living actor".
- During 'Armour of God' he was in an accident and has permanent plastic plug in his skull.
- He got the name 'Jackie' while he was working as a construction worker in Canberra, Australia.
- He once broke twelve concrete blocks with his hand, while keeping the egg he was holding intact.
- Chan never really liked the Rush Hour series but did it because he was paid a very irresistible sum of money.
- He carried multiple guns and even a grenade to protect himself and his other artists from the Triad in the 80s and 90s.
- Jackie sang "I'll make a man out of you" from Mulan in Chinese.
- His son will get none of his $130 million fortune.
- He speaks 7 languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Korean, Japanese and Thai and also American sign-language.
- He is a big supporter of China's communist party and thinks the Taiwanese democracy is "the biggest joke in the world".
- Nosebleed was a 2001 movie (starring Jackie) about a window washer at the World Trade Center, who stops a terrorist attack but was cancelled when the attacks actually happened.
- Guinness awarded Jackie the record for the most film credits in movie 'Chinese Zodiac' where he was the writer, director, lead actor, producer, executive producer, cinematographer, art director, unit production manager, stunt coordinator, prop man, gaffer, stuntman, composer, theme song vocalist, and catering coordinator.
- He has broken his nose thrice, injured his knees, dislocated both his shoulders, his pelvis and sternum and crushed his thighs between two vehicles.
- He has built a stuntmen association named 'Sing Kar Pan' with trusted and well trained men.
- Chan began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon.
- Jackie Chan taught a catfish tricks in Mandarin and English.
- In one scene IT took Jackie 2900 separate takes in the movie Dragon Lord because it was so complex.
- He actually didn't do the voice acting for his character in Jackie Chan Adventures series of cartoons.
- In Jackie Chan Adventures, the character of his niece was voiced by Stacie Chan, his real niece.
- He has his own stunt fighters that communicate when they attack him by very specific grunting noises.
- He once actually jumped out a plane and landed on top of a hot air balloon.
- He loves giving thumbs up.
- Chan always plays the good guy roles expect in Rumble in Hong Kong.
- He keeps trying to get a hand on the failed stunts and accidents until he succeed.
- He married Lin Feng-jiao, a Taiwanese actress in 1982.
- He has a son Jaycee Chan with his wife Lin and a daughter as a result of an extra-marital affair with Elaine Ng Yi-Lei.
- He loves football and supports Hong Kong National football team, England National football team and Manchester City.
- He once did a comedic adult film in 1975 'All in the family'.
- Jackie's stage name was 'Become the Dragon' for a while.
- The only two things scare him are needles and public speaking.
- He was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to entertainment in 1989.
- He is a big fan of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
- A girl once committed suicide when she found out that Jackie Chan was married.
