Zhen Zidang

Zhen Zidan, better known by his Americanized name Donnie Yen, is a famous Chinese film actor who has starred films such as Shanghai Knights, The Monkey King, Ip Man and Rogue One. Star Wars: Tales. " In addition, Donnie Yen's creative biography includes directorial and compositional works, and he also showed himself excellently as a producer and stunt director.

The future actor Donnie Yen was born in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, which is often called Canton in Europe. Two years later, the whole family moved to Hong Kong, where Donnie's mother, Mai Baochan, was going to open her own martial arts school. But due to the intervention of the local mafia, this could not be done, and the Yen family moved again, but this time to another country. They settled in the suburbs of the American city of Boston. There, Donnie Yen's parents' dream comes true: my mother creates her own club, the Institute for the Study of Chinese Wushu, and my father becomes the editor of the international Chinese newspaper Sing Tao, published in Boston.

The boy, who at the time of the last move was already 11 years old, became one of his mother's most diligent students. Pupils loved watching films about martial arts with Donnie Yen, especially where compatriots played - the unsurpassed master Bruce Lee and then still very young Jackie Chan. Such joint screenings provided not only motivation to study: Donnie found unusual elements in the cinema and practiced new tricks in training. His hobby for wushu, which for some reason the Europeans call kung fu, led Yen to the famous "Battle Zone", where illegal fights without rules were held.

The atmosphere of nightclubs and gang warfare attracted the young guy, so his mother sent him to China. In Beijing, a young man spends his time improving wushu techniques. He was admitted to one of the best martial arts schools, in which another actor, Jet Li, previously trained. But that wasn't enough for Donnie. He is about to return to the United States, but accidentally ends up casting for a new Chinese film. Actually, no special viewing of the actors happened. A couple of minutes after the future star demonstrated his abilities, he was approved, and "Drunken Shaolin Master" became the first film with Donnie Yen in the title role.

"Drunken Shaolin Master" or "Drunken Tai Chi" became a big hit in Hong Kong video salons. It is curious that the 19-year-old actor was not going to stay in the cinema, as he agreed to act simply to gain a new experience, and Donnie Yen did not like the work in the film. Then he did not think for a minute that he could stay in the cinema for a long time. But the success of the film entailed a long-term collaboration with director Yuan Woo-ping, who once "opened" Jackie Chan to the world. They have produced several films, of which the action films "Strange Couples", "Tiger Cage" and "On Performance" stand out. It is important to note that in these films Ian worked out his own style of staged combat, and did not begin to repeat after the idols of his childhood.

In the late 80s, Donnie left for another director, and this becomes the starting point in the development of his career. The second part of the action movie "Once Upon a Time in China" makes him a real star, at least on the scale of Hong Kong. At the same time, the Chinese version of the legend of Robin Hood "The Iron Monkey" was released, which is notable for the scene of the battle with Shaolin monks. This episode was recognized by critics and viewers as the best in recent decades among similar scenes. Later, the actor became a star on television, starring in two incredibly popular TV series "Master of Kung Fu" and "Fist of Fury". And Donnie "Ip Man", a biographical action film about the first martial arts teacher, gives world fame.

Several times the colorful actor was filmed in Hollywood. This happened for the first time thanks to the fantastic film Highlander: Game's End, which was followed by the mystical action movie Blade 2, the Shanghai Knights comedy, a spin-off of the legendary saga Rogue One. Star Wars: Tales "and the thriller" X-Three: World Domination ". Also worth highlighting is the joint American-Chinese painting "The Monkey King". Note that "Star Wars" with Donnie Yen became the most anticipated premiere of 2016.

Ian did not limit his creativity only to acting. As a director, he has produced about a dozen films, of which The Legend of the Wolf stands out, as well as Big Boss 2 and Ballistic Kiss, for which he developed the scripts himself. And in the humorous thriller "Wing Chun" Donnie also realized himself as a composer, writing the soundtrack.

In his younger years, Donnie Yen had many women in his personal life, but he always preferred to date girls of Chinese descent, although he grew up in America. The most stellar was his romance with Hong Kong actress and model Joey Meng, with whom he had a romantic relationship for quite some time, but broke up at the turn of the century.

Three years after breaking up with Meng, Donnie Yen's wife became another Chinese actress, former beauty pageant winner Cecilia Qissi Wang. Their wedding ceremony took place in the Canadian city of Toronto. The couple now live in North America and have two children: Donnie Yen and his wife have a son, James, and a daughter, Jasmine.

It is noteworthy that Donnie is an odious and somewhat scandalous person. Since adolescence, he is used to openly expressing unflattering opinions about people, but it rarely comes to compliments. As a boy, he said hard-hitting things about the actor Chuck Norris, who tried to stand on a par with his favorite martial artists. And when Donnie Yen's best films became public, it turned out that on the set of most of them the actor regularly quarreled with the directors, calling them "mediocre", "tyrants" and "henpecked".

1984 - Drunken Shaolin Master 1992 - Once Upon a Time in China 2 2003 - Shanghai Knights 2005 - Seven of Swords 2009 - Bodyguards and Assassins 2012 - All's Well That Ends Well 2013 - Special Person 2014 - Monkey King 2016 - Rogue One. Star Wars Tales 2017 - XXX: World Domination

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Zhen Zidang Net Worth 2021

Zhen Zidang 's revenue is $1.9M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhen Zidang and could vary in the range between $616.3K - $1.8M.

Zhen Zidang Net Worth 2020

Zhen Zidang 's revenue is $1.6M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhen Zidang and could vary in the range between $571.4K - $1.8M.

Zhen Zidang Net Worth 2019

Zhen Zidang 's revenue is $1.8M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhen Zidang and could vary in the range between $897.3K - $1.2M.

Zhen Zidang Net Worth 2018

Zhen Zidang 's revenue is $2M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhen Zidang and could vary in the range between $533.8K - $1.8M.

Zhen Zidang Net Worth 2017

Zhen Zidang 's revenue is $1.7M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhen Zidang and could vary in the range between $505.5K - $1.3M.

Zhen Zidang Net Worth 2016

Zhen Zidang 's revenue is $1.7M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhen Zidang and could vary in the range between $794.9K - $1.5M.

Zhen Zidang Net Worth 2015

Zhen Zidang 's revenue is $1.5M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Zhen Zidang and could vary in the range between $961.3K - $1.7M.

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