This block contains the information about Donnie Yen and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Donnie Yen was born in Hog Kong. His mother was practicing wushu martial art and shooting from the arrow, while his father worked as an editor of a local newspaper. His mother tried to open her own school but she was not able to do it due to the actions of the local mob. While not seeing any perspectives in the British province his family relocated to the opposite side of Atlantics and settled in Boston. That was the place where his mother was able to make her dream come true, and opened a school which was called “Chinese Wushu Research Institute” which became one of the most popular schools not only in Boston but in entire America. Donnie was between the best students in his mother’s school. He loved all the types of kung fu movies that were the reasons why he decided that he would like to become an actor. His favorite actors were Bruce Lee and young Jackie Chan. Those were also the actors who inspired him to become an actor. Donnie is married with the Chinese actress Wang Coo Coo, they married in 2003 in Toronto, and in 2009 his wife became the winner of the contest “The most beautiful Chinese lady who lives in Toronto” They have a son and a daughter. Currently he is getting ready to the release of his new movie “Everything is good what ends good”.

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Here you can learn about the movies Donnie Yen acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Blade II - Snowman, Fight Choreographer, Martial Arts Coordinator	$54M	2002	$32.5M	$81.6M
Shanghai Knights - Wu Chow	$50M	2003	$19.6M	$60.5M
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker - Action Director, Additional Martial Arts Sequences	$40M	2006	$215K	$653K
Hero - Sky	$30M	2002	$18M	$53.6M
Bodyguards and Assassins - Sum Chung-yang, Action Director (uncredited), Special Thanks	$23M	2009
14 Blades - Green Dragon	$20M	2010
Highlander: Endgame - Jin Ke, Martial Arts Choreographer	$15M	2000	$6.22M	$12.8M
Painted Skin - Pang Yong	$10M	2008
Flash Point - Det. Sgt. Ma Jun, Action Director, Producer, Assistant Director	$8M	2007	$3.27K	$3.27K
Iron Monkey - Wong Kei-Ying, Action Director (uncredited)	$2M	1993	$6.01M	$14.7M
So Hak-Yi - So Chan		1993
Dragon Inn - Eunuch Tsao Siu Yan, Action Director (uncredited)		1992
Butterfly and Sword - Yip Cheung		1993
Go aat sin - Chiang Ho-Wa, Action Director		1995
Crystal Hunt - Chin Chi Leung		1991
Ma hei siu ji - Danton Lee		1994
Jiang shi pa pa - Action Director (uncredited)		1986
Dou sing 2: Gai tau dou sing - Lone Seven		1995
The Last Conflict - Dick Kwan		1988
Wing Chun - Leung Pok To (as Yen Chi Tan), Action Director, Assistant Director (uncredited), Composer (uncredited)		1994