Daniel Wu Biography

Daniel Wu is a Hong Kong American actor director and producer. Since his film debut in 1998 he has been featured in over 60 films. Wu has been called the young Andy Lau and is known as a flexible and distinctive leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry.
Wu was born in Berkeley California and raised in Orinda California. His parents were immigrants from Shanghai China. Wu developed an interest in martial arts when he saw Jet Li in The Shaolin Templeand consequently began studying wushu at age 11. His childhood role model was Jackie Chan a man who now considers Wu like a son. Wu attended the Head-Royce School in Oakland California and later majored in architecture at the University of Oregon. While there he founded the University of Oregon Wushu club in 1994 and served as the team's first coach. During this time Wu also took film classes and frequented local theaters and came to enjoy the works of filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Luc Besson who he describes as men of vision. Following graduation Wu traveled in 1997 to Hong Kong to witness the handover of Hong Kong with no intention of taking on a movie career. At the suggestion of his sister Wu began modeling. Four months later film director Yonfan after seeing Wu featured in a clothing ad at an MTR station approached Wu about starring in an upcoming movie.

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