There’s a downside to just being married to someone supremely more accomplished and famous than you are; it reduces your whole achievement to “spouse of said person”. It’s a position that strips you of your own personality and revolves your worth around who you’re married to. The downside is the benefit of influence and prestige, which makes it a good trade-off for many people. For Joan Lin, although she is an actress with over 70 movies in her resume, she is only known as the wife of famous actor and stuntman Jackie Chan. Read below to learn more about the Taiwanese actress.
Who is Joan Lin? – Bio & Age
Joan Lin can now live a life of wealth and comfort, but she didn’t grow up with any of these. She grew up in a poor family of five children in the city of Taipei in Taiwan, when China and its surroundings were a haven for poverty and suffering. The Taiwanese film veteran was born on June 30, 1953. Perhaps due to limited media interest in her life compared to her husband’s, information regarding her parents and siblings is limited.
Joan Lin’s education was also too big a commodity for her parents. She had to drop out of high school at the age of 12 due to her parents’ inability to fund her education. Between the ages of 12 and 19, it’s unclear what Joan Lin did with her life, after leaving school, but at 19 she started acting in films. In fact, she appeared in her first film, The Hero of Chiu at age 19, which would be the first of 70 films during her career.
During the 1970s, Joan Lin became one of the biggest names in Taiwanese and Chinese cinema. Lin, along with Chin Han, Charlie Chin and Brigitte Lin were the leading names in the industry. His film repertoire included many adaptations of untold stories to cinematic works, including novels by Chiung Yao. Its dominance in the 70s was marked by numerous box office successes. Joan Lin has been nominated twice for one of Taiwan’s biggest film awards, the Golden Horse Awards. She was twice nominated Best Leading Actor in 1978 and 1979 for the films, He Never Gives Up and A Small Town Story., respectively. Although she lost the first nomination to Tien Niu for Di-Di’s Dairy, she won the nomination the following year. Joan Lin’s career came to an abrupt end soon after, in 1982.
The Life of Jackie Chan’s Wife
Lin met Jackie Chan two years after his GoldenCheval Award winner and the two started dating. The couple married in 1981 and moved to Los Angeles to service the career of Jackie Chan who was having a golden era in Hollywood at the time. The couple, Jackie Chan and Joan Lin, welcomed a baby boy a day after their wedding and named him Jaycee Chan.
Her marriage to Chan was forced by her pregnancy, as confirmed by Jackie Chan himself in an interview in 2015. Fortunately, however, the couple fell in love with each other more and more, and Jackie Chan recently released a new in 2017 song to celebrate his wife as a Valentine’s Day gift.
Their marriage wasn’t always perfect. During their 37 years of marriage, Chan has been accused of cheating on Lin on several occasions, culminating in the string of infidelities being having a daughter with Hong Kong actress Elaine Ng. The couple, however, managed to overcome their troubles and are currently happy together. Their son, Jaycee Chan is an actor and singer, just like his father.
Although her net worth is currently unknown, with Seventy Movies featuring numerous box office hits in a short career of ten years, Joan Lin derives her share of heritage from her acting career, besides the material benefits of being married to Jackie Chan.
Joan Lin’s Height
Standing the same height as her husband, Joan Lin is 5 feet 5 inches tall. A beautiful woman in her youth who grew up gracefully. She had brown eyes and black hair.
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