Man Zeok Yen is a son of Zing-Ci Leung and Donnie Yen. He is also called Jeff and he was born in the year 1995. He was born with two siblings; sister Jasmine Yen and Brother James Yen from his father’s second marriage.


Donnie Yen is an actor in Hong Kong and he was born in 1963. He is a martial artist and he had been working as a producer and as a director around the entire film industry. He was born in the city of Guangzhou in Guangdong in China. He is action choreographer and he was born to Bow-Sim Mark. Her mother is an ex F u Style Wudangquan. His father was working like a news paper editor and is called Klyster Yen. He was born with a young sister and he was the eldest child in his family. His sister Chris Yen is also an actress and a martial artist. Yen said that his mother was his inspiration that made him to enter into this profession.

At the beginning, Yen was playing like a stuntman of another character in 1983 in the Shaolin Drunkard film. At 20 years, he started his acting career in the film Drunken Tai Chi in 1984. He was in Tiger Cage in 1988 and he got the success from here and afterwards he started to play for Bullet Films in the year 1997. While working in Hollywood films, he got to be called a top working choreographer and he had fights scene that many fans came to love.

Yen introduced Zing-Ci Leung in 1993 and they got married this same year but afterwards they got a divorce. They are parents to 1 child. According to his biography, he got married again to Cecilia Cissy Wang in 2003 and they are happy together and they have 2 children together. Donnie Yen is 5 feet with 8 inches and 75 kg. He became popular because of his style in choreography and boxing. He has been getting a good salary and his net worth is 40 million dollars.

Donnie Yen while growing up, he was a rebel since he was under pressure from his parents who expected too much from him. He joined a Chinatown Gang of Boston at early age and he became curious about martial arts which made him perfect with it. When he was young, he is remembered to beat up a gang of 8 people when they harassed Joey Meng who was his girlfriend then. All 8 people were hospitalized.

Michelle Yeoh, a martial art star said that he is the fastest guy that she was able to work with. Jet Li and Jackie Chan also had said that Donnie is the best fighter when it comes to practical combat in the history of Asian Cinematic Universe. He is a brand ambassador of Jacob & Co. Together with his wife; they are spokespersons and ambassador of Resorts World Sentosa.

Last Modified: Mar 11, 2020


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