Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan, born on April 7, 1954, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, director and stuntman. He also has the following nicknames: Yuen Lo, Sing Lung and Pao Pao.

Trivia

• Jackie actually sings many of his own movie theme songs. Jackie has had a fairly successful career as a recording artist though as can be expected not as successful as his movie career. Regardless, Jackie has an excellent singing voice as does his son. The American versions of his movies do not typically feature the original theme songs, something which Jackie's fans find rather irritating. Jackie was also featured on the Mandarin soundtrack for the Disney movie Mulan.
• With a few exceptions Jackie always dubs his own movies. Jackie is quite fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese and occasionally dubs himself in other languages (such as English).
• The Pokémon Hitmonchan is named after him (similar in style to how the Pokémon Hitmonlee is named after Bruce Lee).
• Though Jackie's willingness to do his own stunts was originally the trade-mark feature of his movies Jackie has sustained various injuries over the years which render him incapable of performing certain stunts. He tries to avoid stunts where he may suffer great head-trauma due to the near-fatal incident that occurred while shooting Armour of God. Also his left ankle has been broken so many times he can no longer rely on it while pushing for a jump and must use his right-foot instead. Over the years he has been forced to use body-doubles on various occasions.
• Has a medical record so long that no life insurance company will cover him.
• While not afraid to do his own stunts Jackie has confesses that like many he is afraid of needles and hates taking shots. Unlike with injury that may come from a failed stunt, with a shot he "knows that it's coming".