Li Lianjie was born on April 26th,1963.His English name is Jet Li.Jet Li started training at the Beijing wushu academy at age eight and won five gold medals in the Chinese championships.In his teens,he was already a national coach,and before he was 20,he had starred in his first movie Shaolin Temple,which started the 1980s Kung-Fu boom in mainland China.He relocated to Hong Kong,where he was the biggest star of the early 1990s Kung-Fu boom as well.He first attempt at directing,He is the biggest Asian movie star after Jackie Chan.