Jackie chan's family is from shantung china but he was born in hongkong on april, 1954 his real name is chan kong sang jackie started in the china drana academy at the age of six he learned music and dance and he trained in traditional martial arts and acrobatics in 1983 jackie fromed an action comedy trio the three brothers with his friends biaoyuen and samohung the trio became very popular in hongkong jackie started making action films combining fights and dang erous stunts jackie was a mixture of charlive chaplin brucelee and jameball the combination worked and he became famous around the world some of his films are cannonball run 1980 , suprecop rumble the bronx 1996 and the rush hour series 1998 - 2001 jackie has had many broken bones and injuries from doing his own stunts why does he take the risk? Jackie says my fans expect me to do that i want to add to the drama and excitement of the film jackie chan continues to enter tain audiences all over the world