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Jackie Chan (April 7, 1954 - ) is a world renowned Chinese martial arts film star. His family hailed from Anhui Province in China and he was born in Hong Kong. He was admitted into a school specialising in Chinese drama and gradually became well known in the acting circle due to his abilities as a martial artist; over the years turned from an actor to a director and producer of films. He broke into the Hollywood with an extremely successful film called “Rumble in the Bronx” in 1994. He won the Special Award for Global Impact conferred by the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) in 2000.