Jackie Chan was born on 7th April 1954. He was named "Chan kong-sang" which in chinese means born in Hong Kong. He was the only son of Charles and Lee Lee Chan, who worked as cook cum handyman while Lee Lee Chan worked as house keeper for the French Ambassador at Victoria Peak in Hong Kong.

Jackie was enrolled in Peking Opera School. Chan studied there from the age of six/seven until the age of seventeen years. At the school he learnt traditional Chinese arts of singing, acting, acorobratic and martial arts. Along with weaponry, stick fighting Students had to put in eighteen hours of hardwork & were subjected to grueling hard work like holding headstones or stances for hours at a time. Beatings were common.

Jackie owes his entire career to Master Yu Jim- Yuen who was his master at school. After some years when jackie's mother joined Jackie's father in australia who had moved to Australia to work in the Chinese embassy in 1960, Master Yu adopted Jackie by making him his god son. jackie qwas invited to to join "the Seven little Fortunes", a performing group at the opera. His first onscreen appearance came in 1962, when a director offered him a small role as a child actor in the Cantonese film called Big and littel Wong Tin- Bar. From here his journey to stardom begined working as a child actor and then stuntman, before the age of seventeen.At seveenteen, Jackie Left the opera school and found small roles in films. Master with the Cracked Fingers (1971) was his first film in which he had a lead role. In 1973 he worked as a extra in two movies that starred the biggest name in kung fu movies at the time " Bruce Lee", they were In Fist Of fury(The Chinese Connection) & Enter the Dragon.

In 1976 Jackie made his first film for Lo Wei, titled New Fist Of Fury. From there Jackie would go on to make a number of Films for Wei, none of which were huge sucesses.In 1978 he acted in Snake in the Eagle Shadow. The film was hit in HonG Kong. He got the required boost From the movie Drunken Master, which was more successful. After which he directed and choreographed his next, and last, film for Lo Wei 1979's Fearless Hyena. Jackie realised he had to extricate himself from the meager talent of Lo Wei, and signed with Raymond Chow's Golden Harvest film Company, However this brach of contract angered Wei,who togather with the Triads issued threats on his Jackie Chan's Life. To avoid further complications, jackie was sent to America where he made battel of Creek Bawl whcich was a flop. Jackie was able to return to HongKong only after Lo Wei was paid HK.$10 000 000 by Golden Harvest studio heads Raymond Chow and Leonard Ho.

His 1984 film Project A, set in early 1900's Hong Kong about rivalries between the police and coast guard, took him away from the traditional Kung-Fu genre and into a new direction. The film delivers tightly choreographed martial arts and physical humor as well as stunts. Jackie goes so far as to recreate Harold Lloyd's "hanging from the clock tower" stunt, falling three stories afterward. It was around this time that Jackie's stunts begin to get more spectacular, and to connect with the audience, Jackie performs them all himself, which would eventually become his trademark. In 1983 Jackie appeared in the Samo Hung directed comedy Winners and Sinners. Jackie, Samo, and Yeun Biao had become good friends studying at the Peking Opera together, and each achieved individual stardom in the Hong Kong movie scene. Jackie considered Samo to be his "big brother" and Biao to be his "little brother". The three would go on to make seven movies together. In 1987 after the film Dragons Forever the group had a bit of a falling out over their direction, and have not appeared together in a film since. In 1996 however, Jackie and Samo reunited to make the film Mr. Nice Guy. In 1985, Jackie again attempted to break into the American market with the film The Protector.

Taking a chance, American film company New Line Cinema bought the rights to distribute Jackie's next film in the United States. Titled Rumble in the Bronx, the film opened in February 1996. Heavily promoted by New Line, the film opened to excellent reviews and went to #1 at the box office the week it debuted. The film created a huge impact finally exposing the American public to martial arts moviemaking of a caliber they had never seen before, and winning Jackie Chan legions of new fans. Jackie had finally broken into the American market and was on his way to becoming a household name. Following the success of Rumble in the Bronx, New line bought rights to Chan's successive works, while Miramax films bought up Jackie's recent 90's work to distribute in the U.S. Enjoying his newfound fame, Jackie has traveled to the United States often to promote his films, as well as continuing to promote his films around the world. After a lifetime in film, Jackie has developed his own unique style, impossible to capture in words, and visible only in the magic of his films.

Concerning his place in film history, Jackie says- "I want to be remembered like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say 'Ah yes, they good'. Maybe one day they remember Jackie Chan that way. That's all".