Jet Li born Li Lian Jie in Beijing, China. He started training at the Beijing wushu academy (wushu is China's national sport, largely a performance version of various martial art styles) at age eight. He won five gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was only 11. In his teens, he was already a national coach, and before he was 20 he had starred in his first movie: The Shaolin Temple (1982), which started the 1980s Kung-Fu boom in mainland China. He relocated to Hong Kong, where he was the biggest star of the early 1990s Kung-Fu boom. His first directorial effort was Born to Defense (1988).

Jet Li at an event for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

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Antonio Banderas, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Glen Powell, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, and Victor Ortiz in The Expendables 3 (2014)

Jet Li in The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)

Jet Li and Shengyi Huang in The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)

Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, and Randy Couture in The Expendables 2 (2012)

Jet Li, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Andy Lau in The Warlords (2007)

Bridget Fonda and Jet Li in Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

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