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Biography
of Donnie Yen
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Donnie Yen born at July 27, 1963 in Canton, China.
Donnie Yen moved with his family to
Hong Kong at the age of two, then moved to Boston, Massachusetts
nine years later. His mother was a martial arts master and
ran a training institute. She began teaching Donnie martial
arts as soon as he could walk. Understandably, he became enthralled
by martial arts movies and even skipped school to watch them.
When he started to become an out-of-control, rebellious teenager,
his parents sent him to Beijing to study with the same master
as Jet Li. After two years, he was due to return to the States,
but stopped off in Hong Kong where he met film director Yuen
Wo-ping, who had launched Jackie Chan's career and was looking
for a new Protege. Yen made his film debut in 1982 at the
age of 19.
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The popularity of martial arts movies in Asia guaranteed Yen
steady work and he stayed on, appearing in 16 more movies over
the next 12 years, including Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)
with Jet Li. In 1995, Yen became a regular on the TV series
Jing wu men, but continued to work in films as well. By 1997,
he'd formed his own film company, Bullet Films, which produced
his directorial debut, Legend of the Wolf.
His role in Highlander: Endgame (2000),
starring Adrian Paul and Christopher Lambert, marked his first
appearance in an English-speaking film. The following year,
Yen directed himself in the Cantonese film Fist of Fury: The
Sequel (2001), but returned to English-speaking films with
Guillermo del Toro's Blade II (2002), starring Wesley Snipes.
Yen reunited with Jet Li for Hero, which was filmed in Mandarin
and released in China in 2002, then released around the world
in 2003/2004.
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| Yen played
the supporting role of Wu Chow in the comedy Shanghai Knights
(2003), starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. He continues to
work in Hong Kong as well as Germany, where he has a successful
TV show, but also splits his time between homes in New York
and Los Angeles. In 2003, he married Cissy Wang Ci Ci. They
have a daughter named Jasmine. Yen also has a son from a previous
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