Jet Li Born April 26, 1963 in Beijing. He won first place in the all-around and complexes with the Tao sword. Li began to train the best martial artists in China. In 1975, at the age of 12, Li was sent to the qualifying tournament for the Third National Wushu Championship. He won immediately in five disciplines out of five possible (adult athletes acted as rivals). In the same year, Li won four gold medals at the Third Championships in Beijing itself (all-around, unarmed complex, spear complex and Tao sword complex. In 1977, at the National Wushu competition, Li won first place in the Tao sword complex, and was also out of reach among followers of the “long fist” style. In 1978, Li again became the gold medalist (in all-around, complex without weapons and complex with the sword of tao). In 1979, at the Fourth Chinese Wushu Championship, he won the all-around fist”, a complex without weapons, a complex with a Tao sword and demonstration fights.
In 2009, Jet Li became a Singaporean, and renounced his Chinese and US citizenship (which he acquired after a long period of work in the US), as Singapore does not allow dual citizenship.
Hans Lundgren born 3 November (1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, filmmaker and martial artist. His breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in Rocky IV as the imposing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, Lundgren has starred in more than 80 films, almost all of them in the action genre. After a long spell performing in direct-to-video films since 1995, Lundgren returned to Hollywood in 2010 with the role of Gunnar Jensen in The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone and an all-action star cast. He reprised his role in The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014). Also in 2014, he co-starred in Skin Trade, an action thriller about human trafficking he co-wrote and produced. He reprised his role of Ivan Drago in Creed II (2018), and is due to reprise his role as Gunner Jensen in The Expendables 4. He appears in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017), playing the protagonist’s son Gil as an adult, and in Aquaman (2018), playing the father of Mera. He also had a recurring role in the fifth season of Arrow.
