Vincent Lyn

Vincent Lyn is a martial artist, actor and musician who began studying martial arts at eight, learning Tai Chi from an uncle before mastering his family's Ling Gar kung fu. His first film, Tiger Cage, was directed by Yuen Woo Ping and became a hit, and he went on to appear in about two dozen more movies, including Operation Condor (1991), where he played the lead villain in a fight with Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan named him among the best fighters he had worked with. Lyn also worked as an elite model, won U.S. national and world kickboxing titles, and was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame. After studying piano performance and composition at the Boston Conservatory of Music, he wrote Canto-pop songs for PolyGram and later released jazz albums, performing at Carnegie Hall in 2011.