Daniel Wu's biography

Daniel Yin-Cho Wu is 48 years old actor born at Berkeley. Daniel was born on Monday 30th of September 1974. Daniel is often nicknamed as Dan. According to year of birth 1974 he belongs to Generation X. Birthday on 30th of September means Daniel is Libra. Libra sign depicts that it is all about “Balance”. It seems that their life is very balanced, however, things are way opposite as they always face unstable situations in order to balance it further.

He is native english speaker. He is asian hong konger. Daniel is citizen of United States of America. He is buddhist. Daniel´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as film director, film producer, model. Daniel is recently known as film actor.

Daniel Wu's family

Daniel Wu's wife

She is known as actor. Daniel´s wife was born on Monday 26th of May 1975 in Monaco.

Daniel Wu's ex wife

Daniel Wu's schools

We found 3 schools Daniel attended. Complete list of schools: University of Oregon, Head-Royce School, University of Oregon College of Design.

Detailed informations about Daniel´s schools

Daniel studied high school - University of Oregon BA in Architecture.

Daniel Wu's career

His main focus is to be actor.

Is Daniel Wu gay ?

He is known to be straight.

What Daniel Wu has done for a first time

Founder and first instructor of the University of Oregon Wushu (Chinese Martial Arts) Club.
His first English-speaking film was Dayyan Eng's Inseparable (2011) which also stars Kevin Spacey.

Daniel Wu's quotes

I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.
If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you're pretty much done, and then you're useless.
I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job.
In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor, but you're also a professional athlete. You have to train.
I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.
Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn't just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.
When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.
We'll see what I do after 'Badlands' to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts.
For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.
I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.
Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.
I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.
It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
There's a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like 'Transformers' making more money over there than here.
To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.
I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.
Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.
I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.
For Mandarin scripts, there's software now where you can just insert the Chinese script, and it comes out all in pinyin.
My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.
I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.
For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.
I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.
What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.
I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.
After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.
I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.
For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.
I really dislike the fact that Asian males are constantly emasculated, whether it's American TV or films. You see it all the time, and it's so weird that they don't see sexuality in Asian men.
I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.
I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.
[Regarding having more children] I'm already 44 years old. My father had me when he was 45 years old and as a result, we were unable to do a lot of things together. I think one child is enough.
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