📍Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
1954 – 1961“Jackie Chan was born Chan Kong-sang on Victoria Peak in Hong Kong in April 1954. His parents, Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, were refugees from the Chinese Civil War, and they found work at the residence of the French consul on the Peak, his father as a cook and his mother as a housekeeper. The family lived in modest quarters within the grounds of the grand residence, high above the city and the harbour, and he spent his earliest years there. His parents called him Pao-pao, cannonball, because he was so boisterous. He was a restless, mischievous child who struggled at school; he failed his first year at Nah-Hwa Primary School, and his parents withdrew him. In 1960 his father took a job as head cook at the American embassy in Canberra, Australia, and his parents enrolled seven-year-old Jackie at the China Drama Academy, a Peking Opera school run by Master Yu Jim-yuen. For the next ten years he lived and trained there, rising before dawn for long days of martial arts, acrobatics, singing and acting, under harsh discipline and with little contact with his family. He became one of the Seven Little Fortunes, a troupe of the school's best students, alongside Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, and appeared in his first film at about eight. After leaving the academy he worked as a stuntman, including in Bruce Lee's films, and in the 1970s and 1980s became Hong Kong's biggest star, blending kung fu, comedy and astonishing stunts, before conquering Hollywood with Rush Hour.”
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