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Xing Yu
Cast · Known for Kung Fu Hustle
Xing Yu gained his fame after playing the role of Coolie in the movie Kung Fu Hustle. He was a 32nd generation martial monk at Shaolin Temple on Mount Song. He has practiced martial art under the direction of Master De Yang at the temple for 10 years since age 12.
Bill Borden
Executive Producer · Known for Kung Fu Hustle
Bill Borden is known for High School Musical (2006), Kung Fu Hustle (2004) and Desperado (1995).
Raymond Wong Ying-Wah
Composer · Known for Kung Fu Hustle, Kung Fu Soccer, Shaolin Soccer
Raymond Wong Ying-wah (born 6 April 1968) is a Hong Kong film score composer. Among his works is the score for the 2004 martial arts film directed by Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle, which was nominated for the Best Original Film Score in the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Danny Chan Kwok-kwan
Cast · Known for Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer
Danny Chan Kwok-kwan (Chinese: 陳國坤) was born on August 1, 1975 in Hong Kong. He is an actor, known for Ip Man 3 (2015), Kung Fu Hustle (2004), and Shaolin Soccer (2001).
Huang Shengyi
Cast · Known for Kung Fu Hustle
Huang Shengyi (Chinese: 黄圣依, born February 11, 1983), also known as Eva Huang, is a Chinese actress and singer, best known for playing the Mute Girl in Kung Fu Hustle.
Tenky Tin Kai-man
Cast · Known for Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle
Tin Kai-man, also named Tenky Tin, is a Hong Kong actor and production manager, most notable for his role in Shaolin Soccer. A well-known friend of Stephen Chow, he began acting in his films with the 1994 Hail the Judge. Tin also worked with Chow on the actor and director's highly successful Kung Fu Hustle.
Lam Suet
Cast · Known for Kung Fu Hustle, V
Lam Suet (Chinese: 林雪, born on 8 July 1964) was born in Tianjin and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after, all the money had been squandered and Lam had to work various odd jobs to make a living. In the mid‑eighties he got found work on movie sets through the help of friends. He performed many different roles, from lighting and props to stage manager and set and script supervisor. Lam gradually developed an interest in acting and, by his own account, pestered various directors until they relented and gave him tiny roles. There are two pivotal people in Lam's acting career. The first is Stephen Chow, who befriended him in his early days as a crew member and cast him in films such as The God of Cookery (1996) and Kung Fu Hustle. The second person is director Johnnie To. Lam has appeared in over 80 films since 1996 and at least 20 of those have been directed or produced by To. Known for his weight and size, his roles are often those of a bumbling secondary character who provides comic relief amid the intense nature of To's films. He is perhaps best known for his various supporting roles in To's films, notably as the bumbling taxi driver Yip in the award‑winning film Breaking News (2004). The most notable To–Lam collaborations include The Mission, which earned Lam Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards, and PTU. Lam was nominated for a Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in PTU. He has also had memorable roles in movies like Wu Yen (2001), as the effeminate prime minister, and in Diva — Ah Hey (2003), in which he played Charlene Choi's loving and supportive father. Lam has been married for almost a decade; his wife is 10 years his junior and is from the same hometown.
Jeffrey Lau
Producer · Known for Kung Fu Hustle
Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai (Chinese: 劉鎮偉) is a Hong Kong actor, screenwriter, producer and director. He had studied graphic design in the U.K., then returned to Hong Kong and worked in advertising. He co-founded the film companies Century Films and Wu Zhou Century Films with director Dennis Yu in 1980, and the duo produced various classics during the New Wave Cinema era. With the support of actor-producer Alan Tang, Lau made his directorial debut with The Haunted Cop Shop, which showcased his distinctive style in supernatural comedies. The genre, along with its vampire and horror counterparts, soon became prominent in Hong Kong Cinema. Lau partnered with Corey Yuen again in 1997 and founded Cinemagic. He was also the producer of Stephen Chow’s blockbuster Kung Fu Hustle in 2004.
Kang Xi Jia
Cast · Known for Kung Fu Hustle
Jia Kangxi, born in the Liyuan family, studied Peking Opera since childhood and was admitted to the Shaanxi Peking Opera Theatre. Has more than 30 years of performance experience. In 2004, in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu Hustle", he played the role of "Tian Can", the master of killing piano. This role is impressive, but for him, this brilliant film did not bring him much popularity. But one year later he starred in classic sitcom "Underground Transportation Station".
Stephen Chow
Cast · Director · Known for Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Soccer
Stephen Chow Sing-Chi (Chinese: 周星馳) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, actor, and producer. Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong on 22 June 1962 to Ling Po Yee, an alumna of Guangzhou Normal University, and Chow Yik Sheung, an immigrant from Ningbo, Zhejiang. Chow has an elder sister named Chow Man Kei and a younger sister named Chow Sing Ha. Chow's given name "Sing-chi" derives from Tang dynasty Chinese poet Wang Bo's essay Preface to the Prince of Teng's Pavilion.After his parents divorced when he was seven, Chow was raised by his mother. Chow attended Heep Woh Primary School, a missionary school attached to the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China in Prince Edward Road, Kowloon Peninsula. When he was nine, he saw Bruce Lee's film The Big Boss, which inspired him to become a martial arts star. Chow entered San Marino Secondary School, where he studied alongside Lee Kin-yan. After graduation, he was accepted to TVB's acting classes. Chow began his career as an extra for Rediffusion Television. He later joined TVB in 1981. He was drawn to attention hosting the TVB Jade children's program 430 Space Shuttle. Chow made his film Final Justice in 1988, which won him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 25th Golden Globe Awards. Chow shot to stardom in The Final Combat. The following decade, he appeared in more than 40 films. Fight Back to School became Hong Kong's top-grossing film of all time. In 1994, he began directing films, starting with From Beijing with Love. In the latter half of the 1990s, Chow becomes very famous in China, he became a legend and the Stephen Chow Phenomenon. In 2001, his film Shaolin Soccer grossed over US$50 million worldwide. Chow won Best Director and Best Actor at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards, and the film went on to garner additional awards including a Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Picture and Best Director. It was the highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong at the time, grossing $46 million in the Asia region. In 2004, his film Kung Fu Hustle grossed over US$106 million worldwide. Chow also won Best Director at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Picture of Imagine Film Festival as well as over twenty international awards. Critics as well as film stars such as comedian Bill Murray said that the film was the supreme achievement of modern comedy that had outshone any preexisting form of American comedy, including Murray's directorial work. His film CJ7 began filming in July 2006 in the eastern Chinese port of Ningbo. In August 2007, the film was given the title CJ7, a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. CJ7 became the highest-grossing film of all time in Malaysia. For his work in comedy, he has received praise from notable institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, who called him the King of Comedy. Stephen Chow has directed multiple classic films since the 1990s. In 2013, his film Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons became the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time. In 2016, his film The Mermaid broke numerous box office records, and became the highest-grossing film of all time in China.
Angie Lam On-Yee
Editor · Known for Kung Fu Hustle
Angie Lam is a Kung Fu film post coordinator, one of the most well-known editors in the Chinese film industry. She has the reputation of being "the first cut of Jianghu".
Michael Mullen
Director · Known for Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Michael Mullen is known for his work on Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011), Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2015) and The Iron Giant (1999).
Vanessa Kai
VANESSA KAI is best known for her work in CW's hit series "Kung Fu". Most recently, you can find Vanessa in a recurring role as Gisela Mott on "Elsbeth" starring Carrie Preston on CBS. In theater, Vanessa Kai was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as "Ruby" in the world premiere of "KPOP," an Off-Broadway, immersive musical event produced by Ars Nova. Other notable credits include the world premieres of "The Pain of My Belligerence" at Playwrights Horizons, "Somebody's Daughter" at Second Stage and "The Architecture of Becoming" at New York's City Center. Vanessa's breakthrough role came in 2020 when she was cast as Pei-Ling Zhang in CW's hit series "Kung Fu", produced by Warner Bros. Her powerful portrayal of the mysterious and wise mentor to the show's protagonist, Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), has been praised for its depth and nuance that quickly made her a fan favorite. Before "Kung Fu", Vanessa appeared in a number of other television series and films, including "New Amsterdam", "Orange Is the New Black", "The Mysteries of Laura", "The Blacklist", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", and "Madam Secretary". A champion of new works Kai is much sought after for her collaborative spirit and her love of world building, and has helped to develop new plays at New York Stage & Film, Public Theater, SoHo Rep., Roundabout Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theatre, Two River Theater, The New Group, The Lark Play Development Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Playwrights Realm, New Dramatists, and many others. Vanessa is a native New Yorker and a first generation Chinese American.
Chua Kah Joo
Cast · Known for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Chua Kah Joo is a Singaporean actor who is a trained professional Ballet dancer and Kung Fu Master (Grand Sifu of Wing Chun). He worked with with Germany's Wuppertal Ballet, the Scottish Ballet and London City Ballet in the 1970s and also collaborated with famed ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev for several years. He taught Wing Chun Kung Fu in London (starting in 1980), and it was there that he was cast as "Chen", an evil henchman, in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In 1990 he returned to Singapore to teach Kung Fu at his studios there.
Stephen Oyoung
Cast · Known for The Wrecking Crew, Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall
Stephen Oyoung is an Asian-American film and television actor. He is a martial arts expert specializing in Chinese Wushu Kung Fu. Oyoung also worked in the industry as a stuntman, a fight choreographer and a motion capture performer.
Annie Q. Riegel
Annie Q. Riegel is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Christine in The Leftovers, and recurring roles in Kung Fu and Death and Other Details.
Haley Tju
Haley Alexandra Tju (born February 15, 2001) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Marcy Wu in the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia, Nu Hai in the DreamWorks Animation series, Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny, Pepper in the Nickelodeon television series Bella and the Bulldogs and Stella Zhau in the Nickelodeon animated series The Loud House.
Jessie Graff
Jessica Lauren Graff is an American professional stunt woman and athletics-based television personality. She is a black belt in Taekwondo, a black sash in Kung Fu, and is trained in five other styles of martial arts. She is also a championship pole vaulter and a competitive gymnast.
Joy Regullano
Joy Regullano is a writer / actor based in LA who recently wrote on the animated show MONSTERS AT WORK on Disney Plus. Previously, she has written on KUNG FU PANDA: DRAGON KNIGHT (Netflix / Dreamworks), THE HEALING POWERS OF DUDE (Netflix), several Sesame Workshop digital shorts, and she was a Sesame Street writing fellow. TV acting credits include CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, MODERN FAMILY, SPEECHLESS, HOUSE OF LIES, and SUPERNATURAL. Check out the concept album for her Asian American comedy musical SUPPORTIVE WHITE PARENTS, now available on all streaming platforms!
Mark Dacascos
Cast · Known for John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Legend of the White Dragon
Mark Alan Dacascos (born February 26, 1964) is an American actor and martial artist. He won numerous karate and various styles of kung fu championships between the ages of 7 and 18. Beginning in January 2005, Dacascos has portrayed "the Chairman" on Food Network's television series Iron Chef America. This role was previously played by Takeshi Kaga in the original Japanese Iron Chef, and Dacascos' character is presented as Kaga's nephew, though the actors are not related. Dacascos went on to continue the role in Iron Chef Australia. His other roles include: Eric Draven in The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Eubulon, the Advent Master, on Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, the lead role of "Mani" in the French film Brotherhood of the Wolf and the lead role of "Crying Freeman" in the film of the same name. Dacascos competed in season 9 of Dancing with the Stars. His partner was So You Think You Can Dance finalist Lacey Schwimmer. The pair was eliminated in the 7th episode. On November 2, 2010, CBS announced Dacascos was cast to reprise the role of Steve McGarrett's arch-nemesis, Wo Fat, in the modern remake of Hawaii Five-0.
April Hong
Cast · Known for Kung Fu Panda 4
April Hong was born on April 11, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008).
Morgan Benoit
Morgan has been involved in the Chinese martial arts for 15 years. Following his passion, at age 18 he moved to China to study at the Beijing Sports University where he mastered Long Fist Kung Fu. Once ascending to the top of his class in just a couple of years, he was admitted to the prestigious Shi Cha Hai sports academy, former training grounds of Jet Li, and many of China's top Olympic athletes. Never letting his love for training lag behind his early career development, while auditioning for and performing in various Chinese historical dramas, TV commercials, game shows and more, he began training in gymnastics under private instruction at Shi Cha Hai. This led to his interest in doing film stunt work as he grew fond of the tumbling and feats of strength that martial arts stunts demanded. His ability and enthusiasm was well-noted by Jackie Chan whom he worked with in "The Forbidden Kindom" (2008), and also by David Carradine whom he worked with in "Last Hour" (2008). Morgan was in high-demand as a martial arts actor in China, but after nearly 10 years away from his friends and family, he's recently returned to the US to continue his acting and film career in LA. IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
Mick Wingert
Cast · Known for Arcane
Mick Wingert is an American voice actor and voice-over coach. He is best known for his role as the voice of Master Po and Zeng in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, taking over the roles from actors Jack Black and Dan Fogler, respectively; as well as Iron Man in various Marvel productions.
Brian T. Delaney
Cast · Known for The Sea Beast
Brian T. Delaney is an American actor and voice actor, who is best known for providing the voice of the male Sole Survivor in Fallout 4 and Master Mantis in the Kung Fu Panda games.