Birth of Jet Li

Jet Li was born on 26 April 1963 in Beijing. A Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor, Jet Li was born in Beijing and trained in wushu from childhood, winning several national championships as a teenager. His film debut, Shaolin Temple in 1982, made him a star in China, and he became a leading figure in Hong Kong cinema with the Once Upon a Time in China series about the folk hero Wong Fei-hung. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1990s with Lethal Weapon 4, followed by films such as Romeo Must Die, Hero, Fearless and The Forbidden Kingdom, in which he appeared with Jackie Chan. He has since devoted time to the One Foundation, a charity he established in 2007.

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