Jet Li
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Li at the World Economic Forum in 2009
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| Chinese name | 李連杰 (traditional) | ||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | 李连杰 (simplified) | ||||||||||||||||
| Pinyin | Lǐ Liánjié (Mandarin) | ||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Lei5 Lin4-git6 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||||||
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26 April 1963 Beijing, China |
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| Years active | 1982–present | ||||||||||||||||
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| Children | 4 daughters:
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| Ancestry | Beijing, China | ||||||||||||||||
| Website | JetLi.com | ||||||||||||||||
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Jet Li's hand print and autograph at the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong.
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| Traditional Chinese | 李連杰 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 李连杰 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 李陽中 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 李阳中 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Liánjié |
| Wade–Giles | Li Lien-chieh |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| IPA | [le̬i lɪ̏ŋkìt] |
| Jyutping | Lei5 Lin4 Git6 |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Yángzhōng |
| Wade–Giles | Li Yang-chung |
| IPA | [lì i̯ǎŋʈʂʊ́ŋ] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Lee Yeung Chong |
| IPA | [le̬i jœ̏ŋtsʊ́ŋ] |
| Jyutping | Lei5 Joeng4 Zung1 |
Li Lianjie ([lì li̯ɛ̌ntɕi̯ě]; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion who was born in Beijing. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen.
After three years of training with Wu Bin, Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. After retiring from Wushu at age 19, he went on to win great acclaim in China as an actor making his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982). He went on to star in many critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably as the lead in director Zhang Yimou's 2002 Hero and the Once Upon a Time in China series, in which he portrayed folk hero Wong Fei-hung.
Li's first role in a non-Chinese film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), and his first leading role in a Hollywood film was as Han Sing in Romeo Must Die (2000). He has gone on to star in many action films, including in French cinema with Luc Besson Kiss of the Dragon and Unleashed. He co-starred in The One (2001), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) with Jackie Chan, all three of The Expendables films with Sylvester Stallone, and as the title character villain in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008).
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