Chan Kong-sang, SBS MBE PMW is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, filmmaker, action choreographer, and singer. He is known in the cinematic world for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. He has trained in Wushu or Kung Fu and Hapkido, and has been acting since the 1960s. In 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth to be USD 350 million, and as of 2016, he was the second-highest paid actor in the world.
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Chan Kong-sang, SBS MBE PMW is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, filmmaker, action choreographer, and singer. He is known in the cinematic world for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. He has trained in Wushu or Kung Fu and Hapkido, and has been acting since the 1960s, appearing in over 150 films. In 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth to be USD 350 million, and as of 2016, he was the second-highest paid actor in the world. Chan is also a globally known philanthropist and was named as one of the top 10 most charitable celebrities by Forbes magazine. He changed his Chinese name to Fong Si-lung in the late 1990s, since his father’s original surname was Fong. Chan was born on 7 April 1954 in Hong Kong to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, refugees from the Chinese Civil War. His parents nicknamed him Pao-pao because the energetic child was always rolling around. He attended the Nah-Hwa Primary School on Hong Kong Island, where he failed his first year, after which his parents withdrew him from the school. He became part of the Seven Little Fortunes, a performance group made up of the school’s best students, gaining the stage name Yuen Lo in homage to his master. Chan became close friends with fellow group members Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, and the three of them later became known as the Three Brothers or Three Dragons.
At age eight, he appeared in the film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar with Li Li-Hua playing his mother. The following year, the young actor appeared in extras of The Love Eterne and had a small role in King Hu’s 1966 film Come Drink with Me. In 1971, after an appearance as an extra in another kung fu film, A Touch of Zen, Chan was signed to Chu Mu’s Great Earth Film Company. At seventeen, he worked a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films New Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the name Chanen Lung. In 1976, Jackie Chan received a telegram from Willie Chan, a film producer who had been impressed with Jackie’s work in the Hong Kong film industry. His stage name was changed to Sing Lung literally “become the dragon” to emphasise his similarity to Bruce Lee’s stage name, ‘Little Dragon’ He has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games, and is a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred. In 2004, film scholar Andrew Willis stated that Chan was ‘perhaps’ the ‘most recognised star in the World’ and that he is ‘the second highest paid actor in the world’.
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