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    I’m an Asian American Actor Who Went to China Before Hollywood Would Cast Me as a Lead (Guest Blog)

    By Daniel Wu | April 17, 2018 @ 1:09 PM

    “Growing up a Chinese-American kid in 1970s and 1980s California, I saw no possibility for me to become an actor,” “Into the Badlands” star Daniel Wu writes

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Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu is an actor, director and producer who has been featured in over 60 films, with his breakout role in Benny Chan's "Gen-X Cops." He received two more Hong Kong Film Award nominations in 2005: for Best Actor in "One Night in Mongkok" and Best Supporting Actor (alongside boyhood idol Jackie Chan) in "New Police Story," a role that also brought him Taiwan's Golden Horse Award as Best Supporting Actor. He also won the prestigious Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director for his 2006 feature, "The Heavenly Kings." His string of international film hits includes "Night Corridor" (2003, Best Actor nomination at Taiwan's 40th Golden Horse Awards), Frank Coraci's 2004 remake of "Around the World in 80 Days," Quentin Tarantino's presentation of "The Man With the Iron Fists" (2012), "Europa Report" (2013), Jackie Chan's "Chinese Zodiac" (2012) and Dean Devlin's "Geostorm" (2017). Wu also starred in Duncan Jones' epic sci-fi adventure "Warcraft" (2016) and opposite Alicia Vikander in "Tomb Raider" (2018). In April 2018, he returns for his third season as Sunny in AMC's "Into the Badlands."
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