70 years ago on this day, the world's favorite actor Chen Gansheng was born in Hong Kong; we know him under the pseudonym Jackie Chan.
He got his nickname in Australia from workers on construction sites.
On April 7, 1954, his birthday almost ended tragically for both Jackie and his mother; doctors miraculously managed to save them. As the actor himself admitted in his interview, his father even had to offer Jackie himself as payment for hospital services.
At the age of six, his parents sent him to a traditional Chinese boarding school, where he studied acting, philosophy and various martial arts.
The discipline in this school was the most severe, children slept on the floor, ate there, there were grueling training sessions and corporal punishment every day.
One day, a producer needed a well-trained boy for a film; we are talking about the film “Big and Little Wong Tin Bar” in 1962, where he played his first role as a boy learning kung fu.
This was the starting point of his film career.
Throughout his life, he starred in more than a hundred films, was a director, producer, stuntman, screenwriter, and cameraman. Moreover, the actor has recorded 20 music albums, he himself performed several songs for his films, and he also sang at the closing of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Throughout his film career, Jackie received more than 3,000 injuries; there is not a single bone in his body that he did not I broke it on set at least once. Because of this, all insurance companies refuse to provide him with services, because they are afraid of going broke due to his fractures)
On the set of “Armor of God”, he received the most dangerous injury in his life - a fracture of the skull bones, followed by hemorrhage and miraculously did not die. Now he has a plastic plug in his head.
He entered the Guinness Book of Records twice, the first for the largest number of stunts, the second for the largest number of roles for the film “Armor of God 3”, he managed to be in 15 positions at once.
In 2016 he received a well-deserved Academy Award for his contribution to cinema.
Owner of his own studio, honorary doctor of several universities, plenipotentiary representative of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, author of four films included in the “hot Hong Kong tenth century”, honorary citizen of Seoul, activist of animal protection organizations, organizer of several charitable foundations, owner of a chain of restaurants and most likely there must be something else on this list)
From all sides, a unique person whom it is impossible not to love!