Jackie Chen lights up Paris steps up as paralympic torch Bearer Jackie Chan the legendary Kung Fu Daredevil Hollywood star and Guinness World Record holder is set to be a torch Bearer for Wednesday's par Olympic opening ceremony in Paris at 7 Chan whose unique blend of comedy and martial arts has earned him a massive following in France and Beyond continues to Captivate audiences across language barriers born in British colonial Hong Kong in 1954 Chang began his film career as a child actor and worked as a stunt double in Bruce Lee's 1970 to Classic Fist of Fury his thrilling fight scenes interspersed with slapstick humor showcased in films such as Drunken Master and police Story made him a household name in Hong Kong and across Asia Chan's stunt work also led to frequent injuries and outakes of scenes gone wrong where typically shown at the end of his films and blooper reals alongside the credits Guinness World Records recognized him in 2012 for most stuns by a living actor Chan's Hollywood breakthrough came with Rumble in the Bronx in 1996 and the subsequent rushar Trilogy where he starred opposite American Comedian Chris Tucker the third installment of the rusher movies filmed in France featured a pivotal fight scene at the Eiffel Tower with Chan sumers salting and rolling off the iron beams of the Paris icon to evade his opponent Jackie Chan Bor Chen Kong sing is a Hong Kong actor action choreographer filmmaker comedian producer martial artist screen right haar entrepreneur singer and stunt performer in his movies he is known for his acrobatic fighting style comic timing use of improvised weapons and Innovative stunts Jackie Chan has been acting since the 1970s and has appeared in over 100 films Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a cultural icon Chan has been referenced in various pop songs cartoons and video games Chan is also a kapop and Mando pop star having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred Chan was born on April 7th 1954 in Victoria peak in the former Crown Colony of Hong Kong as Chan Kong sang meaning born in Hong Kong to Charles and lei Chan refugees from the Chinese Civil War he was nicknamed poopo Chinese literally meaning Cannonball because he was such a big baby weighing 12 lbs or about five point for KES since his parents worked for the French consul to Hong Kong Chen spent his formative years within the grounds of the consul's residence in the Victoria Peak District Chen attended the nahwa Primary School on Hong Kong Island where he failed his first year after which his parents withdrew him from the school in 1960 his father immigrated to canbera Australia to work as the head cook for the American Embassy and Chan was sent to the China drama Academy a peaking opera school run by Master eug jiman Chen trained rigorously for the next decade excelling in martial arts and acrobatics he eventually became part of the 7 little fortunes a Performance Group made up of the school's best students gaining the stage name y l and homage to his master Chen became close friends with fellow group members Sam o hung and Yuan ba the three of them later to be known as The Three Brothers or three dragons at the age of 17 he worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Le films Fist of Fury and entered the Dragon Under the stage named chenu en lung he received his first starring role later that year year in little tiger of Canton which had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973 don't forget to like comment share and subscribe to my channel farari news [Music]