Cantonese Name – Wu Bing
DOB – Feb/14/1972
Birthplace – Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Height – 189 cm
Weight – 176 lbs
Hobbies – basketball
Fav. Food – duck, fish, szechuan, red bean dessert, watermelon
Fav. Color – blue, white
Goal – Become a well-rounded artist
Occupation – Model, Acting, Singing
Rain listed in People’s 100 Most Beautiful
Rain (Real name: Jung Ji-Hoon, born on 25 June 1982 in Seoul) is a male Korean R&B and pop singer. He has become well-known throughout East and Southeast Asia — including Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Mainland China, Vietnam and Thailand.
South Korean pop star Rain, a pan-Asian heartthrob, has become the first entertainer from his country to make People magazine’s annual “100 Most Beautiful People” list.
“I am very honoured. This will be a great boon to my efforts to raise public awareness of me in the United States,” Rain was quoted as saying on his agent’s website.
“I never expected this to happen to me. This is the best news for me this year.”
Since his debut in 2002 Rain, whose real name is Jung Ji-Hoon, has personified the “Korean Wave” of pop music, films and TV dramas sweeping across Asia.
In 2007, Rain topped Time Magazine’s online user poll, although he was not in the magazine’s actual list. He also made it into People’s 2007 list of the “Most Beautiful People” in the world.
Rain became interested in R&B and Hiphop dancing when he was in 6th grade. As a teenager, he was a member of a boy band called Fanclub. The group was short-lived, and soon disbanded. At that time Rain was having the hardest time of his life. His mother was sick, he had no money, he had a little sister to take care of and go to school. Yet he still pressed forward, always dancing, dreaming to become a singer. Rain then began auditioning for various talent agencies. In a CNN interview, however, he recalled being repeatedly rejected because of his looks: “In fact, I was told after one audition that my singing and dancing was great but I didn’t make it because I didn’t have double eyelids.”Finally, Rain entered an audition for Korean talent agency JYP Entertainment. Park Jin Young, the CEO of the agency, took a personal interest in Rain and accepted him as a trainee. During the early years of training, Rain was a backup dancer.
Finally, in 2002 he debuted with the album Bad Guy where he was introduced to the media through his stage or commercial name, Rain. In the album, a similarly-named single Bad Guy was a big hit. After his first album, he took time off from his career as a singer to star in the drama series, Sang Doo! Let’s Go To School. Following the success of his debut as singer and actor, Rain released his second album How to Avoid The Sun, and had another hit with the title song “Ways to Avoid the Sun.”
In 2004, he starred in another successful drama called “Full House“, which was one of the highest-rated Korean dramas of all time with ratings of over 30% for every episode.It was broadcasted in many other countries including the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Japan, Taiwan and the U.S. Through Full House, Rain was recognized across Asia. His performance in the drama also won him the Best Actor Award at the KBS Acting Awards.
Name: Tian Liang
Jet Lee
Gender: male
Born: April 26th, 1963 (Heibei, China)
English Name: Jet Li
Chinese (Mandarin) Name: Li Lian Jie
Chinese (Cantonese) Name: Li Nin Kit
Height: 169cm
A modest man and devout Buddhist, Jet Li rose from a sheltered life to become one of China’s finest athletes before gaining unparalleled success, perhaps as the most popular martial arts star in the world.
Li was born Li Lianjie in Beijing, China. His father died when he was two. His mother took him to the Beijing Amateur Sports School at the age of eight. Li participated in the sport of wushu in the non-sparring event. He began his wushu of the Beijing Wushu team, an athletic group organized to perform martial arts forms during the All China Games. As a member of the team, he received wushu training and went on to win fifteen gold medals and one silver medal in Chinese wushu championships:
1974 — Youth National Athletic Competition: broadsword form gold medal, optional empty-hand form gold medal, all-round gold medal;
1975 — Third Chinese Wushu Championships: long fist form gold medal, spear form silver medal 1977 — National Wushu Competition: long-fist form gold medal, broadsword form gold medal
1978 — National Wushu Competition: long-fist form gold medal, optional empty-hand form gold medal, broadsword form gold medal, all-round gold medal;
1979 — Fourth Chinese Wushu Championships: long-fist form gold medal, optional empty-hand form gold medal, broadsword form gold medal, sparring form gold medal, all-round gold medal.
He has also participated in some drama performances. His first movie was “Shaolin Temple”, this made him famous as it was China’s first modern Kung Fu movie. This introduced Shaolin’s Wu Shu to the world. There were hundreds of youngsters who visited the remains of the original Shaolin temple, hoping to train in the same manner as Li’s character in the movie. His second movie, “Kids from Shaolin”, was as good as the “Shaolin Temple”. He also likes the color white. His favourite films that he made were the “Shaolin Temple” series because it introduced him to the film industry, and “Once Upon A Time in China” because it brought him fame as an actor and martial artist.
Jet Li is very talented. He has the charisma, and he can act very well. He has the grace and the style and this can be seen in the varieties of movies he has made. He can perform drama, comedy, romance, and unquestionably he can do well in action. Jet Li can also direct, he has directed his movie Born to Defence. He also produced some of his movies such as “Kung Fu Colt Master”, “Fist of Legend”, “Bodyguard from Beijing”, “New Legend of Shaolin”, “Fong Sai Yuk”, and “Fong Sai Yuk 2”.
Filmography (selected):
2005 – Unleashed (actor)
2003 – Rise to Honor [VG] (voice actor, motion capture)
2002 – Cradle to the Grave (actor)
2002 – Hero (actor)
2001 – The One (actor)
2001 – Kiss of the Dragon (actor, producer, writer)
2000 – Romeo Must Die (actor)
1998 – Hitman (actor)
1998 – Lethal Weapon IV (actor)
1997 – Once Upon a Time in China and America (actor)
1996 – Black Mask (actor)
1996 – Dr. Wai and the Scripture with No Words (actor)
1995 – My Father is a Hero (actor)
1995 – High Risk (actor)
1994 – The New Legend of Shaolin (actor)
1994 – Fist of Legend (actor, producer)
1994 – The Bodyguard from Beijing (actor, producer)
1993 – Fong Sai Yuk II (actor)
1993 – The Tai Chi Master (actor)
1993 – Last Hero in China (actor, producer)
1993 – Once Upon a Time in China III (actor)
1993 – The Kung Fu Cult Master (actor, producer)
1993 – Fong Sai Yuk (actor, producer)
1992 – Once Upon a Time in China II (actor)
1992 – The Master (actor)
1992 – Lucky Way (actor)
1991 – Once Upon a Time in China (actor)
1991 – Swordsman II (actor)
1989 – Dragon Fight (actor)
1988 – Born to Defence (actor, director)
1986 – Martial Arts of Shaolin (himself)
1984 – Kids from Shaolin (actor)
1983 – This is Kung Fu (himself)
1982 – Shaolin Temple (actor)
