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Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1954. Born into poverty - his parents almost sold him to the doctor who delivered him because they couldn't pay his medical bills - Chan was apprenticed to the Peking Opera at the age of six. He started out as a stuntman and after the death of Bruce Lee was groomed as a replacement. A Buster Keaton fan, Chan soon realised that he would be better off playing for laughs and was soon Asia's number one film star. Pretty much uninsurable having broken nearly all his bones performing his own stunts, Chan eventually broke through into Hollywood in the late 90s.
