Best Asian Actors
by Yami503 | created - 29 Jul 2011 | updated - 30 Jul 2011 | Public
1. Gackt
Actor | Bunraku
Gackt was born Gakuto Oshiro in Okinawa, Japan. His father was a music teacher, and his mother also a teacher. He is the second of three children, with an older sister and younger brother.
His musical education began early, and he started learning classical music theory and piano from the age of ...
2. Francis Ng
Actor | Mou gaan dou II
Francis Ng was born on December 21, 1961 in Hong Kong. He is an actor and director, known for Infernal Affairs II (2003), 2000 AD (2000) and Bullets Over Summer (1999). He has been married to Fiona Wong since December 2, 2002. They have one child.
3. Nicholas Tse
Actor | San ging chaat goo si
Nicholas was born in Hong Kong, China. He attended school in Vancouver, Canada. He also attended school for a short time in Phoenix, Arizona before moving back to Hong Kong with his parents Patrick Yin Tse and Deborah Dik, and his sister, Jennifer (Ting Ting). Nicholas started his singing career ...
4. Jackie Chan
Actor | Ngo si seoi
Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best-known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish international success after his start in Hong Kong's manic martial arts cinema industry.
Jackie was born Kong-sang Chan on April 7, 1954, on Hong Kong's famous ...
5. Jet Li
Actor | Huo Yuan Jia
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,...
6. Stephen Fung
Producer | Wu Assassins
Stephen Fung is a international filmmaker who made his acting debut in Forbidden Nights(1990.) Since then he has starred in more than 40 films in Asia. In 2004, Stephen wrote/directed/starred in his feature film directorial debut "Enter the Phoenix" for JackieChan's newly formed company JCE Movies; ...
7. Sam Lee
Actor | Heung Gong jai jo
Sam Lee was born on September 27, 1975 in Hong Kong. He is an actor and producer, known for Made in Hong Kong (1997), Man of Tai Chi (2013) and Dog Bite Dog (2006).
8. Bruce Lee
Actor | Jing wu men
Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media. Had it not been for Bruce Lee and his movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream North American and ...
9. Ekin Cheng
Actor | Fung wan: Hung ba tin ha
Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. Earlier in his career he was known as Noodle Cheng, though he has now reverted to a more conventional-sounding first name. Sometimes he uses Dior (because that was what it sounded like when his younger sister tried to call him) as a first...
10. Edison Chen
Actor | Mou gaan dou
Edison Chen was born on October 7, 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor, known for Infernal Affairs (2002), The Grudge 2 (2006) and The Dark Knight (2008). He has been married to Qin ShuPei since May 30, 2016. They have one child.
11. Hyde
Soundtrack | Godzilla
Hyde was the guitarist in another band when he was "recruited" by Tetsuya in 1991 to form the band L'Arc~en~Ciel. Since then, Hyde became the main lyricist of the band, although he also composes music for the band, and for his solo work. In his solo work, Hyde started with singles such as "...
12. Robin Shou
Actor | Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Robin Shou is the fourth child of a Shanghai tailor and homemaker. His family moved to the US in 1971. Their first home in Los Angeles was a 2 bedroom apartment near Olympic and Vermont, today known as Koreatown.
Shou didn't start attending martial arts classes until he was 19. He took Kenpo (Karate...
13. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Actor | Mortal Kombat
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa got his first big break as an actor when he was cast in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987). A US Army brat, he was born in Tokyo and lived in various cities while growing up. His father was in the army, stationed at Ft. Bragg (NC), Ft. Polk (LA) and Ft. Hood (TX). His...
14. Bruce Locke
Actor | The Man in the High Castle
Born and raised in Oregon, Bruce Locke was originally not a martial artist and yet is known for some of the action characters he has portrayed.
He played tennis in college and was nationally ranked. He is a single-digit-handicap golfer and active on the charitable celebrity golf circuit in between ...
15. Hiro Mizushima
Actor | Kamen raidâ Kabuto
Hiro Mizushima was born on April 13, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kamen Rider Kabuto (2006), Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love (2006) and Black Butler (2014). He has been married to Ayaka since February 22, 2009. They have two children.
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