Jet Li in his 1st visit to Vietnam
Chinese yank movie star and kung fu master Jet Li paid a visit to Hanoi on January 20-24 to attend charity activities as a goodwill ambassador for the International Red Cross.
On January twenty two Jet Li attended a blood donation, that attracted over five,000 people, to store blood for patients throughout the lunar New Year vacation (Tet) at the Youth Park in Hanoi.
On an equivalent day he visited a mangrove forest within the central province of Nghe An and engaged himself within the in Red Cross activities in Thanh Hoa and Nghe An.
He came back to Hanoi the subsequent day and presented gifts to forty enthusiastic volunteers of the Vietnamese Red Cross and talked with adolescents regarding voluntary activities.
He talked with the native media at a press conference in Hanoi these days, January 24, before leaving Vietnam.
Li Lian Jie, 47, higher known by his stage name Jet Li, may be a martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was born in Beijing, and has taken up Singapore citizenship.
After 3 years of intensive coaching with Wu Bin, Li won his 1st national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. once retiring from wushu at age seventeen, he went on to win nice acclaim in China as an actor creating his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982). He went on to star in several critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably the Once Upon A Time In China series, within which he portrayed people hero Wong Fei-hung.
Li’s 1st role in an exceedingly Hollywood film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon four (1998), however his 1st Hollywood film leading role was in Romeo should Die (2000). He has gone on to star in several Hollywood action films, most recently starring beside Jackie Chan within the Forbidden Kingdom (2008), and because the title character villain within the Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008) opposite Brendan Fraser. Recently, he appeared within the 2010 films Ocean Heaven and therefore the Expendables.
Source: Vietnamnet