Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu Yin-cho (simplified Chinese: 吴彦祖; traditional Chinese: 吳彥祖; pinyin: Wú Yànzǔ; born September 30, 1974) is an American Hong Kong actor, director and producer. He stars in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese-language film industry. 2Early life Wu was born in Berkeley, California, and raised in Orinda, California. His parents, Diana, a college professor, and George Wu, a retired engineer, are natives of Shanghai, China. His father immigrated to the United States after the communist revolution in China in 1949, and met his mother in New York, where she was a student. After marrying, they settled in California. Wu has two older sisters, Greta and Gloria, and an older brother who died when he was two.Wu developed an interest in martial arts when he saw Jet Li in The Shaolin Temple and Donnie Yen in Iron Monkey, and consequently began studying wushu at age 11. His childhood role model was Jackie Chan, a man who now considers Wu "like a son." Wu attended the Head-Royce School in Oakland, California and later majored in architecture at the University of Orego