Background
Tiger Chen was born on 3 March 1975 in Chengdu, Sichuan, where he studied the Chinese martial arts, by age 18, he enrolled into Sichuan Wushu Team.
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Tiger Chen was born on 3 March 1975 in Chengdu, Sichuan, where he studied the Chinese martial arts, by age 18, he enrolled into Sichuan Wushu Team.
He was also Uma Thurman"s stunt double. At the age of 19, Tiger Chen went to United States, where he lived in a small wooden shack. He said: "In China, at least you can practice Kung Fu and attend Martial Arts competitions, but in the United States, you will find that most of your time in washing the dishes and do a porter." Tiger Chen became a student of Hong Kong martial artist Yuen Woo-ping in 2000s.
Film career
In 1998, Tiger Chen began his film career by holding a post on the fight choreography team as an assistant under Yuen in The Matrix, a science fiction action film starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
At the same time, he became best friends with Keanu Reeves. Chen also held the post of choreographer in Charlie"s Angels (2000), Once in the (2000) and Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003).
Tiger Chen had a minor role as a ronin in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), the second film of the Matrix trilogy. In 2005, he appeared as a martial artist in House of Fury with Anthony Perry, Gillian Chung, Stephen Fung and Charlene Choi.
In 2012, Tiger Chen played the lead role in Kung Fu Manitoba, alongside Vanessa Branch and Jiang Mengjie.
After playing minor roles in various films, Tiger Chen received his first leading role in the film called Manitoba of Tai Chi, opposite Keanu Reeves, Karen Joy Morris and Yam Tat-wah.