Donnie Yen

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Early experience

Donnie Yen was born on July 27, 1963 in a martial arts family in Guangdong, China. He came to Hong Kong at the age of 2 and immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 11.

Yen's mother, Ms. Mai baochan, is an international martial artist and Taijiquan master. As a result, he has been practicing martial arts with his mother since childhood. At the same time, he has been exposed to Taiji and other traditional Chinese Kung Fu and Western boxing, laying a good foundation for him in traditional martial arts.

Growing up in his mother's martial arts atmosphere, yen saw a lot of kung fu movies when he was a child. From this, he learned traditional and modern martial arts, as well as Taiji, and understood the internal and external laws of martial arts. After seeing the works of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, he often imitates their actions, and even plays truant to watch kung fu movies.

In 1974, the 11 year old yen family immigrated to Boston to study various styles of martial arts. In 1978, due to the influence of Bruce Lee, yen liked free combat, but his mother was not good at it, so he was sent to Beijing Shichahai Sports School Wushu team for two years of training. Donnie Yen became the first non Chinese mainland student and was awarded the six section of the black belt of Taekwondo during his school year. After returning to the United States in 1982, he took part in the American regional Wushu competition and won the championship.

Acting experience

In 1987, yen came to Xi'an Zhao Changjun martial arts college from the United States to study traditional routines with Zhao Changjun, President of the college, which laid the foundation for the future of traditional martial arts. On his way back to the United States, he passed through Hong Kong and was introduced to meet director yuan Heping. Since then, Yuan Heping and yen began a long-term cooperation.

In 1982, he returned to the United States from Beijing to study martial arts and won the martial arts champion of that year.

In 1984, he starred in laughing Tai Chi. In 1986, he took part in the film love meets the enemy. In 1988, he took part in the police and bandit films "SWAT slaughtering the dragon" and "no crown vanguard". In 1989, he took part in "Royal elder martial sister 4 direct attack witness" and "Flying Tiger heroes".

In 1990, he starred in money laundering and labyrinth of fate. In 1991, he took part in "Gan Tan Qunying".

In 1992, he was invited by Xu Kezhi to perform in "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "Huang Feihong 2: Men's self-improvement" successively, and was nominated for best supporting actor in the Hong Kong golden statue award for "Huang Feihong 2: Men's self-improvement".

In 1993, he starred in Yuan Heping's Iron Monkey and Su Qier. He took part in the movie "new meteor butterfly sword" directed by McDonnell. He won the nomination for best supporting actor at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards for his work "men's self-improvement".

In 1994, he starred in the film Yongchun, which was produced by Huang Baiming and directed by Hong Jinbao. In the same year, he starred in the TV series Hong Xiguan and was nominated for the Golden Dragon Award for best actor in Chinese TV series.

In 1995, he starred in the TV series JingWuMen. In 1997, he began to direct films, and in 1997, he directed and acted in his first film the legend of the war wolf.

In 1998, he directed the urban gunfight movie "killing people, dancing" and won the best young director award of "yubari" Film Festival in Japan.

In 1999, he was nominated for the best director award of the 5th Hong Kong film criticism Society Award and the best director award of the 5th Hong Kong film criticism Society Award. In 1999, Donnie Yen flew to Berlin as the first Chinese filmmaker from Hong Kong to act as the action director of the German TV series code puma. In the same year, he signed a contract to shoot the American science fiction action film "the ultimate battle of the Challenger" in Romania, playing the ancient Chinese "Jingke" and acting as an action director starring Christopher Lambert and Adrian baul.

In 2000, he was invited to work as a martial arts director and director in Germany, the United States and Japan. In 2001, he acted as the action director of the movie "snow girl of Shura".

In 2002, he acted as the action director of blade 2 and took part in Zhang Yimou's hero in 2002. In April, "the Iron Monkey", which took part in the film, ranked sixth in the total box office of the top ten foreign language films in the past decade with 14.7 million in the United States, and was nominated for the "best battle Award" of the world special effects award.

In 2003, director Jackie Chan's Hollywood work Shanghai Noon 2. In 2003, he did action design for the film "thousand machine changes", and won the 40th Taiwan Golden Horse Award and the 23rd Hong Kong golden statue award for best action director.

In 2004, he took part in "love in a hurry" and "the battle of a thousand opportunities changing into two flower cities", and "the battle of a thousand opportunities changing into two flower cities" won the best visual effects of the 40th "Golden Horse Award" and the best visual effects of the 23rd Hong Kong film "golden image award".

In 2005, he starred in Tsui Hark's "Seven Swords", ye Weixin's "kill the wolf" and "dragon and Tiger Gate", and directed the action of "kill the wolf" and "dragon and Tiger Gate".

In 2007, he and ye Weixin jointly directed "fuse", which is known as the prequel of "kill the wolf". Yen acted as the leading actor, producer and action director. In the same year as the action director of the anti-terrorism action film "storm Raider" released.

In December 2008, he starred with Ren Dahua and Xiong Dailin in the film "IP MAN" directed by Ye Weixin. On April 26, 2009, he won the best actor award in the 16th Beijing University Film Festival for his film "IP MAN". In the same year, he took part in the epic blockbuster the founding of the people's Republic of China, in which he played the role of musician Tian Han.

In 2010, Donnie Yen took part in urban love dramas such as "the strongest thing", "together" and so on.

On June 29, 2011, the crew of martial arts held a meeting in Beijing for the creator. On November 26, they won the best action design award of the 48th Golden Horse Award for the film. On November 10, he took part in the urban love drama "eight stars reporting good news".

In February 2014, "journey to the West: havoc in heaven" starring Donnie Yen was released. On April 25, the first movie of the sci-fi action love movie "ice man" series "ice: the door of rebirth" starred by him was released. On October 31, his 3D modern action film "one man's Wulin", starring and acting director, was released. In October, Donnie Yen accepted Hollywood's invitation to star in the Sino US co production noodleman.

On August 28, 2015, crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon 2, starring Donnie Yen, was released simultaneously in IMAX cinemas in North America and Netflix, an online video platform, in which he played the No.1 man, silent wolf. In the same year, he starred in the film "IP MAN 3"; in the same year, he won the best action design award of the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards for his film "one man's Wulin".

In 2016, he joined the new film extreme agent 3: the ultimate return. On March 4, directed by Ye Weixin, supervised by Huang Baiming, directed by Yuan Heping, starred by yen, Zhang Jin, Xiong Dailin and Tan Yaowen, the 3D kung fu movie "IP MAN 3" performed by Tyson was released in China.

At the end of 2016, Xingmei culture, together with Huang Baiming, will start the production of the first Wesley, and yen will join hands. Announced and director Ye Weixin cooperation film "IP MAN 4" again. Star Wars: Grand Theft one, starring Jiang Wen and Donnie Yen, was released in China on January 6, 2017.

On November 23, 2017, he won the lifelong achievement actor award and the best actor award of Foshan kung fu film week.

On January 23, 2018, he and director Wang Jing collaborated in the new play "Feilong crossing the river"; on April 9, fabo announced that the movie "IP MAN 4" officially started; on August 24, the action comedy "elder martial brother" starred in the movie was released, in which Chen Xia played the leading actor; on November 2, the movie "ice man: Time Traveler" starred in the movie was released; on December 21, the producer's "IP man's biography: Zhang Tianzhi" was released.

In July 2019, he starred in the police bandit action film "battle of rage"; on December 20, his action film "IP MAN 4: the end" was released.

In 2020, he starred in Wang Jing's new film "killing the Dragon by relying on heaven" and played Zhang Sanfeng in the film; on September 11, his Disney live action movie "Hua Mulan" was released and played commander Dong in the film; in the same year, he served as the "ambassador" of the 45th Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2020, he will play in the film "anger · serious case". November 2, announced to join the "online bar! "Huacai youth" will be the helper of Guofeng youth growth plan.

On February 11, 2021, he participated in the Spring Festival Gala of China Central Radio and television in 2021 and performed martial arts "heroes of heaven and earth" with Wu Jing.

Personal life

family

Her mother, Mai baochan, is a martial artist and Taijiquan master, who founded the Chinese Martial Arts Research Institute.

His father, Zhen Yunlong, is a Boston writer of Xingdao daily, an international Chinese newspaper. He can play violin and erhu, a Chinese stringed instrument similar to violin. Donnie Yen also studied classical piano and liked Chopin. Music became another source of inspiration in his life.

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