UfvF4uRGlONGwBGqKn8slOiknq.jpg' alt='Watch Tai Chi Hero Download Full' title='Watch Tai Chi Hero Download Full' />Donnie Yen Wikipedia. Donnie Yen. Background information. Chinese nameJyutping. Jan. 1 Zi. 2 Daan. GoCfAtkgYI/UVwtNesvtBI/AAAAAAAATYM/R_EOplSrXa0/s1600/Heropage-980x560_4.jpg' alt='Watch Tai Chi Hero Download Full' title='Watch Tai Chi Hero Download Full' />CantoneseOrigin. Hong Kong. Born1. July 1. 96. 3 age 5. Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Occupation. Actor, martial artist, film director, producer, action choreographer, multiple time wushu world tournament champion. Years active. 19. SpousesZing Ci Leung m. Cissy Wang m. 2. Children. Ancestry. Taishan, Guangdong, China. Influenced by. Bruce Lee. Website. Donnie. Yen. Asia. Donnie Yen Facebook Official Page. Donnie Yen Sina Official Weibo Simplified ChineseDonnie Yen Tencent Official Weibo Simplified ChineseDonnie Yen born 2. July 1. 96. 3, also known as Yen Chi Tan, is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film director, producer, action choreographer, and multiple time world wushu tournament champion. Yen is credited by many345 for contributing to the popularisation of the traditional martial arts style known as Wing Chun. He played Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2. Ip Man, which was a box office success. This has led to an increase in the number of people taking up Wing Chun, leading to hundreds of new Wing Chun schools being opened up in mainland China and other parts of Asia. Ip Chun, the eldest son of Ip Man, even mentioned that he is grateful to Yen for making his family art popular and allowing his fathers legacy to be remembered. Yen is considered to be one of Hong Kongs top action stars director Peter Chan mentioned that he is the it action person right now and has built himself into a bona fide leading man, who happens to be an action star. Yen is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts MMA into the mainstream of Chinese culture by choreographing MMA in many of his recent films. Yen has displayed notable skills in a wide variety of martial arts, being well versed in Tai Chi Chan, Boxing, Kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, Taekwondo, Karate, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, Wing Chun, and Wushu. Directed by Stephen Fung. With HarkOn Fung, Stephen Fung, Xiaochao Yuan, Qi Shu. Yang travels to Chen Village to learn a powerful form of Tai Chi. Though villagers. Seen as one of the most popular film stars in Asia of the early 2. Yen was one of the highest paid actors in Asia in 2. Yen earned HK2. 20 million US2. Bing helps you turn information into action, making it faster and easier to go from searching to doing. Offers 50 GB of free storage space. Uploaded files are encrypted and only the user holds the decryption keys. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN. Early lifeeditYen was born in Guangzhou, China. Yens mother, Bow sim Mark, is a Fu Style. Wudangquan internal martial arts and Tai Chi grandmaster, while his father, Klyster Yen, is a newspaper editor. When he was two years old, his family moved to Hong Kong and then to Boston when he was 1. His younger sister, Chris Yen, is also a martial artist and actress, and appeared in the 2. Adventures of Johnny Tao Rock Around the Dragon. At a young age, under the influence of his mother, Yen developed an interest in martial arts and began experimenting with various styles, including tai chi and other traditional Chinese martial arts. Yen then started kung fu when he was nine. Yen focused on practising wushu seriously at the age of fourteen after dropping out of school. His parents were concerned that he was spending too much time in Bostons Combat Zone, so they sent him to Beijing on a two year training program with the Beijing Wushu Team. When Yen decided to return to the United States, he made a side trip to Hong Kong, where he met action choreographer Yuen Woo ping. Yen finally started taekwondo at around the age of sixteen. Yen also came from a family of musicians. His mother is a soprano, in addition to being a martial arts teacher in Boston, while his father is a violinist. From a young age, he was taught by his parents to play musical instruments, including the piano. He also knows hip hop dancing and breakdancing. Yens first step into the film industry was in 1. Drunken Tai Chi. After filming Drunken Tai Chi and Tiger Cage 1. Yen made his breakthrough role as General Nap lan in Once Upon a Time in China II 1. Wong Fei hung played by Jet Li. Yen had a starring role in the film Iron Monkey in 1. Yen and Li appeared together again in the 2. Hero, where Yen played a spear or qiang fighter who fought with Lis character, an unnamed swordsman. Watch Toilet Online Toilet Full Movie Online. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2. Academy Awards. In 1. Yen starred as Chen Zhen Cantonese Chan Zan in the television series Fist of Fury produced by ATV, which is adapted from the 1. Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen. Yen reprised his role as Chen Zhen in the 2. Legend of the Fist The Return of Chen Zhen. In 1. 99. 7, Yen started the production company Bullet Films, and made his directorial debut1. Legend of the Wolf 1. Ballistic Kiss 1. At age 3. 4, Yen almost went bankrupt. Films produced by his own production company and directed by him were critically acclaimed but did not do well at the box office. Yen was forced to borrow money from loan sharks and his production crew to get by. Yen later went back to the United States, where he was invited to choreograph fight scenes in Hollywood films, such as Highlander Endgame 2. Blade II 2. 00. 2. His choreography and skills impressed the directors, and they invited him for cameo appearances in both movies. In 2. 00. 2, Jet Li was filming the movie Hero and insisted to the director that he wanted Yen to play the role of Sky, his adversary, due to Yens martial arts ability. Li personally invited Yen back from Hollywood to star in the movie, marking the second time the two actors appeared onscreen together since Once Upon a Time in China II ten years earlier. In 2. 00. 3, Yen played the antagonist against Jackie Chan in Shanghai Knights. Yen choreographed most of the fight animation in the 2. Onimusha 3, which featured actors Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jean Reno. Yen continued to be active in Hong Kong cinema in the 2. Chu Zhaonan in Tsui Harks wuxia epic film Seven Swords, and as Ma Kwun in Wilson Yips brutal crime drama film SPL Sha Po Lang in 2. Both films were featured at the 2. Toronto International Film Festival. Later that year, Yen co starred with Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue in Wilson Yips Dragon Tiger Gate, an adaptation of Wong Yuk longs manhua series Oriental Heroes. Yen also worked as action choreographer in Stormbreaker, starring Alex Pettyfer. Yen continued to work with Wilson Yip in Flash Point 2. He won the award for Best Action Choreography at the Golden Horse Film Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in Flash Point. In 2. 00. 8, Yen starred in Ip Man, a semi biographical account of Yip Man, the Wing Chun master of Bruce Lee. Ip Man marked Yens fourth collaboration with director Wilson Yip, reuniting him with his co stars in SPL Sha Po Lang, Sammo Hung and Simon Yam. Ip Man became the biggest box office hit to date featuring Yen in the leading role, grossing HK2. Hong Kong and 1. 00 million yuan in China. In August 2. 01. 1, while Yen was on a vacation with his family in the United States, he reportedly received an invitation by producer Avi Lerner to star in The Expendables 2. It was stated that Yen was considering the offer, had many films at hand, and would wait until deciding whether the script appealed to him. Later on, Yen revealed to the Hong Kong media that he had rejected the role. In 2. 01. 1, Yen revealed that he was venturing into other genres of movies and had taken up two comedy roles in a row, in Alls Well, Ends Well 2. Alls Well, Ends Well 2. Carina Lau in the former and Sandra Ng in the latter. Both films obtained huge critical and box office success and proved that Yens versatility as an actor. Yen took a six month break in the second half of 2. The Monkey King 3. D, explaining that he wanted to spend more time with his family and be with his children more often during their growth. Yen at the New York Film festival in 2. In 2. 01. 2, Yen returned to the movie industry and commenced the filming of Special ID, in which he played the main lead, an undercover cop, and also took on the role of action choreographer. In 2. 01. 3, it was reported that Donnie Yen would be playing the lead role for The Iceman Cometh 3.