Jet Li
Biography
Jet Li is a Chinese martial artist and actor who trained in wushu in Beijing, winning several national championships from 1974 to 1979. He retired from competition at 18 and made his feature debut in Shaolin Temple (1982), a huge hit in China that brought two sequels, and he became a leading Asian action star playing Wong Fei-hung, the folk hero of the Once Upon a Time in China films (1991). Other martial arts films included Tai-Chi Master (1993), Fist of Legend (1994) and Black Mask (1996). His Hollywood break came as the villain of Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), followed by Romeo Must Die (2000), Kiss of the Dragon (2001), The One (2001) and Unleashed (2005). He starred in Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002), Fearless (2006) and The Warlords (2007), which earned him a Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and appeared in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) with Jackie Chan and the first three Expendables films.
63years old
Turns 64 on April 26in 166 days
- Born Beijing
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- Also credited as Li Lianjie and Li Yangzhong
Movie Career
- Films
- 41
- Career span
- 38 years1982 to 2020
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About the name
A publicity company in the Philippines decided in 1982 that Li's real name was too hard to pronounce. Because they likened his career to an aircraft that "takes-off" as quickly, the name Jet Li went on the movie posters.
A role that slipped away
Jet Li declined to play Seraph in The Matrix trilogy. He believed the part did not call for his skills and that the films were already iconic and stunning without his name added to the cast.
A first
Jet Li joined the China national wushu team in 1974, when he was eleven. During the Ping-pong diplomacy period, the team went to the United States and gave performances in Hawaii, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., as well as Mexico City and Hong Kong.
Jet Li movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Hark Tsui directed three of these films, Corey Yuen three and Siu-Tung Ching three. Two actors appear in six of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Collin Chou's page
Jian Kui Sun6 films together, 1982 to 2011
Jian Kui Sun's page
Jason Statham's page
Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam's page
Rosamund Kwan's page
Chunhua Ji's page
All films by Hark Tsui
All films by Corey Yuen
Siu-Tung ChingDirector, 3 films, 1992 to 2011
All films by Siu-Tung Ching
Also five films together1 more actor
- Sun JiankuiLegend of the Red Dragon (1994), Tai-Chi Master (1993), Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986), Shaolin Temple 2: Kids from Shaolin (1984) and Shaolin Temple (1982)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Jet Li's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$2.5 billion
29 of the 41 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 41 films: 29 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 11 figure not found.
- 29Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 11Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 74% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$403M15.8% of the total
- 2$315M12.4% of the total
- 3$285M11.2% of the total
- 4$274M10.8% of the total
- 5$215M8.4% of the total
- 6$177M7.0% of the total
- 7$128M5.0% of the total
- 8$91M3.6% of the total
$660 millionfrom the other 21 films with a worldwide figure, 26% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.