Jaycee Chan - Biography

Biography

Jaycee was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, he is the son of Hong Kong action/martial arts star Jackie Chan and Taiwanese actress Lin Feng-Jiao. However, other sources, including Jackie Chan's autobiography, state that he was born in 1984 and that his parents were married in 1983. On the other hand Jackie's official website states that he was born in 1982.

Jaycee briefly attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia for two semesters, but did not graduate. He has a penchant for luxury cars and nightlife and stated that he left school because “all you can see in Virginia is sheep.”

Jaycee made an agreement with his parents that if his first film, "The Huadu Chronicles; Blade of the Rose" aka "Twins Effect II" had failed at the box office, he would quit the entertainment business and return to the US to finish his degree at The College of William and Mary. Although the film was a failure, Jaycee did not return to school. It was later revealed that he was expelled for low grades.

Jaycee's father, Jackie Chan gave a speech at Harvard and donated an undisclosed sum of money in an attempt to convince his son to return to school.

Giving up on school, Jaycee moved to Hong Kong in 2003. Despite heavy promotions and awards, his albums and movies have had dismal sales. His film, Double Trouble, only grossed US$9,000 in Hong Kong, making it one of the biggest box office failures ever. His studio, though, is adamant that he will be a success one day at whatever cost.

In early 2009, Chinese websites reported that he has given up United States citizenship in favor of Chinese citizenship to appeal to local audiences.

For the film Little Big Soldier, Joan Lin suggested that Jaycee costar with his father, but Jackie was highly against it. However, Jaycee has since reconciled with his father, and they starred together in Jackie's 100th film, 1911 The team up resulted in Jackie Chan's least profitable and worst reviewed film to date.

To appeal outside of Chinese audiences, his studios hired Korean and Singaporean artists, Jang Nara and Fann Wong, to promote Jaycee's new film, Whoever. The film was meant to satire Jaycee's life as a playboy from a famous father. Once again, the film was a box office disaster, not placing in the China top ten, despite a government mandate requiring it to be played at half the nation's theaters. The studios decided not to release the film theatrically in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Frustrated by his son's financial burdens and extravagant lifestyle, during an awards ceremony in Beijing in April 2011, Jackie stated that he would be donating all his assets to charity after his death, letting his son earn his own money and prove his worth.