Biography
Daniel Wu is a Hong Kong actor, director, and producer who is regarded as a “flexible and distinctive” prominent actor in the Chinese-language film business. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been in over 60 films. He won three Golden Horse Awards and starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands and the Disney+ wuxia action comedy American Born Chinese.
Age
He is 49 years old as of 30 September 2023. He was born in 1974 in Berkeley, California, United States. His real name is Daniel Wu Neh-Tsu.
Family – Education
His parents, Diana (née Liu), a college professor, and George Wu, a retired engineer, are from Shanghai, China. His father emigrated to the United States from China and met his mother in New York, where she was studying. After marriage, they moved to California. Wu has two older sisters, Greta and Gloria, and a brother who died when he was two. Wu attended the Head-Royce School in Oakland, California, and later studied architecture at the University of Oregon. In 1994, he started the University of Oregon Wushu Club and became its first coach. Following graduation, Wu came to Hong Kong in 1997 to observe the handover, with no plans to pursue a film career. Wu began modeling when his sister suggested it.
Wife – Children
Wu and Lisa S. married on April 6, 2010, in South Africa. Their daughter, Raven, was born in May 2013.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m).
Daniel Wu Born Chinese
He was cast as as Sun Wukong, a Chinese legendary figure commonly known as Monkey King in the American fantasy action comedy television series American Born Chinese. Wei-Chen is revealed to be the son of Sun Wukong, also known as the Monkey King, a famous person from Chinese literature. Wei-Chen had a dream that the mythical Fourth Scroll may prevent a rebellion against Heaven. The dream also foretold that an ordinary adolescent would help him in his hunt. So Wei-Chen stole his father’s magical staff and is now disguised as a high school student, looking for the scroll in earthly California, believing that Jin is the ordinary youth from his prophetic dream.
Career
Regardless of his powerlessness at an opportunity to communicate in Cantonese or read Chinese, Wu effectively finished his most memorable film, Yonfan’s Bishonen in 1998. As of this day,[when?] when Wu gets a Cantonese script, his associate peruses the whole piece, while he makes notes on the elocution. The day after Bishonen wrapped, Wu was offered the main job in Mabel Cheung’s City of Glass (for which Wu was designated as best new entertainer at the eighteenth Hong Kong Film Grants) and later, a supporting part in Youthful and Risky: The Prequel, from Andrew Lau’s hoodlum film series. Close to this time, Wu met Jackie Chan at an eatery opening and was immediately endorsed to Chan’s JC Gathering with specialist Willie Chan.
Wu’s leading edge execution came in 1999 with his part in Benny Chan’s Gen-X Police. He followed this accomplishment with jobs in different movies including large financial plan spine chiller Purple Tempest, arthouse creation Peony Structure and the effective Love Covert. In 2001, Wu got analysis from the Hong Kong media for sexual scenes with Suki Kwan in Cop on a Mission, yet Wu says that equivalent analysis pulled in the consideration of chiefs and the film addressed a defining moment in the sorts of jobs he picked from now on.
Wu’s most memorable involvement with film creation accompanied his featuring job in Julian Lee’s 2003 film Night Passage. Because of monetary imperatives, Wu partook in the quest for financing for and dissemination of, the film and enrolled Jun Kung to make the soundtrack. However Night Passage managed “hazardous” topics, Wu felt he had less dependence on picture than a large number of his pop-star entertainer friends, and he was designated for best entertainer at Taiwan’s 40th Brilliant Pony Film Grants for his work. During 2003, Wu partook as maker and imaginative chief on MTV’s Whatever Things!, an Ass styled program circulated in Asia, likewise highlighting Sam Lee, Josie Ho, Terence Yin, and different VIPs. During 2003, Wu partook in a phase creation of The Cheerful Sovereign at the Edward Lam Dance Theater as a feature of the Hong Kong Expressions Celebration, during which he discussed a 16-minute talk in Cantonese, advanced totally from pinyin. In 2005, Wu was selected as best entertainer at the 24th Hong Kong Film Grants for his job in Derek Yee’s One Nite in Mongkok, and as best supporting entertainer for New Police Story. At the 41st Brilliant Pony Film Grants, Wu won the honor for best supporting entertainer for New Police Story. The success shocked him, since he “didn’t imagine that much” of his exhibition in the film.
In 2005, Chinese media started to report that Wu had framed a teeny-bopper group, Alive, with Terence Yin, Andrew Lin and Conroy Chan. Wu and his bandmates posted data, refreshes, individual contemplations (counting pummeling Hong Kong Disneyland, for which they were spokespersons), and the band’s music, at their authority site. In 2006, Wu made his composition and first time at the helm with The Grand Lords, which annals Alive’s development and exploits. After the film’s delivery, nonetheless, it was uncovered that The Radiant Rulers was really a mockumentary of the Hong Kong popular music industry, and Alive was built simply as a vehicle to make the film; the film’s characters addressed just 10-15% of their genuine partners and a significant part of the recording obscured the line among fiction and reality. Wu conceded his own performing voice “sucked downright terrible”, and the band had their voices carefully upgraded for its music, to demonstrate that “faking it is simple”. In spite of some reaction from the media over being purposefully taken care of misleading data in the movie about unlawful downloads of the band’s music, Wu won the best new chief honor at the 26th Hong Kong Film Grants, an accomplishment he called “a collective endeavor.”
In 2011, Wu featured close by Kevin Spacey in chief Dayyan Eng’s bilingual film Indivisible. It debuted at the Busan Global Film Celebration and was delivered in films in China and different domains around the world, making it Wu’s most memorable English-language film execution.
From 2015 to 2019, he featured as Bright on the AMC activity series Into the Barren wasteland, for which he likewise filled in as chief maker. In 2016, he depicted by means of movement catch and voiced Gul’dan, the focal adversary of the activity dream film Warcraft, in light of the Warcraft computer game series by Snowstorm Diversion. In 2018, he showed up in Burial chamber Pillager, in view of the computer game series of a similar name, as Lara Croft’s companion, Commander Lu Ren. In 2021, he showed up in Memory, chief Lisa Satisfaction’s component film debut.
Movies
♦ 2025 – With Love
♦ 2021 – Reminiscence
♦ 2020 – Caught in Time
♦ 2018 – Tomb Raider
♦ 2017 – Geostorm
♦ 2017 – Wished
♦ 2016 – Warcraft
♦ 2016 – Sky on Fire
♦ 2015 – I Am Somebody
♦ 2015 – Go Away Mr. Tumor
♦ 2014 – That Demon Within
♦ 2014 – Overheard 3
♦ 2014 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
♦ 2013 – Europa Report
♦ 2013 – Control
♦ 2012 – The Great Magician
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – American Born Chinese
♦ 2022 – Westworld
♦ 2016 – Skylanders Academy
♦ 2015–2019 – Into the Badlands