JACKIE CHAN (Eddie Yang) was Asia's biggest box office star for more than 20 years before he became a household name in the West by starring in such blockbuster hits as Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Shanghai Noon, The Tuxedo and Shanghai Knights. He also has produced, directed and starred in scores of Asian films, including Rumble in the Bronx, First Strike, Drunken Master , Supercop, Operation Condor, Crime Story, Mr. Nice Guy and Armor of God. He will next be seen in the adventure Around the World in 80 Days, directed by Frank Coraci for Walden Media. Born in Hong Kong to working class parents, Chan trained at the Peking Opera School from the age of seven to seventeen where he learned the various skills required for Chinese opera such as acrobatics, gymnastics, martial arts, weaponry, dance, singing, and dramatics. By the time Chan graduated, Chinese opera was declining in popularity and he gravitated into film. In the early seventies, Chan worked as a bit player and an action director. Inspired by great film clowns like Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Chan has invented a unique style for film, combining humor and death-defying stunts which he has carried to extravagant heights that American films are only now attempting. A superb martial artist and acrobat, Chan has built his legend by putting his life on the line for his movies. In the montage of outtakes, which typically end his films, fans see the proof that Jackie Chan is still his own most amazing special effect. He is the hero of the animated television series Jackie Chan Adventures and is a recipient of MTV's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition to writing, acting and directing, Chan has a successful singing career and is active in numerous charities in Hong Kong and surrounding Asian countries. Established in 1988, the Hong Kong based Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation (JCCF) helps impoverished children, the disabled and the elderly as well as students who are pursuing degrees in the sciences or performing arts and those how have been injured while filming movies. Chan recently donated $1.5 million to fight the SARS epidemic. Since moving to the United States from her native England, CLAIRE FORLANI (Nicole James) has made a name for herself in Hollywood by delivering strong performances in such films as Meet Joe Black, starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, and The Rock opposite Sean Connery. Forlani, who most recently starred in the cable movie The Pentagon Papers opposite James Spader, is currently shooting White on White for director Roger Spottiswoode, which co-stars Barry Pepper, Alan Cumming and Tom Wilkinson. She will next be seen in Triggerman with Donnie Wahlberg and The Limit opposite Lauren Bacall. Raised by her British mother and Italian father, Forlani attended the Arts Educational School in London from eleven to seventeen years of age, studying dance and drama. After graduation, she pursued her acting career in England until she moved with her parents to San Francisco in 1993. Three months later, Forlani landed her first role as a mistress of John F. Kennedy in the made-for-television drama J.F.K.: Reckless Youth. Her film credits include Antitrust, Boys and Girls, Mystery Men, Basquiat, Magicians, The Last Time I Committed Suicide and Kevin Smith's Mallrats. Forlani currently resides in Los Angeles. One of Britain's biggest comedy stars, LEE EVANS (Watson) has captured the imaginations of audiences and critics with his irrepressible physicality and disarming charm. For six years, Evans toured the comedy clubs across the British Isles, eventually earning a regular weekly spot at London's famous Comedy Store. His big break came in 1993 when Evans took the Edinburgh Festival by storm and won the coveted Perrier Award. Also in the same year, he achieved a life-long ambition by performing and selling out for two nights at The London Palladium. Evans made his first television appearance on Britain's television series Friday Night Live and was soon given his own half-hour special, An Evening with Lee Evans. The success of this special led to a second program, The World of Lee Evans, and garnered him nominations for Best New TV Comedy and Top TV Comedy Personality at the British Comedy Awards during the 1990s. Evans' first major film role was in Funny Bones with Jerry Lewis, which won the Evening Standard Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. In addition, he has appeared in Brooms; The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman; Mouse Hunt with Nathan Lane; There's Something About Mary, featuring Matt Dillon, Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller; The Ladies Man and The Martins. Most recently, he starred in Vacuums, Plots with a View with Christopher Walken, Brenda Blethyn and Alfred Molina, and Framed. His television credits include the BBC One sitcom Lee Evans? So What Now?, for which he was nominated as Most Popular Comedy Performer at The National Television Awards 2001. In 2002, Evans returned to the stage with a new one-man show, performing at more than one hundred sold-out venues throughout the U.K. The tour culminated with two nights at London's Wembley Arena, selling out the 10,000 seat theatre each night which made Evan's show the largest solo comedy gig ever in the U.K. His show, Lee Evans Wired & Wonderful - Live at Wembley, was released on home video and DVD last Christmas and became a top ten best seller in England with more than 700,000 sales. JULIAN SANDS (Snakehead) is a versatile British actor, playing a wide range of roles with charm and daring. Originally from Yorkshire, England, one of Sands' first roles was in the television mini series, A Married Man alongside Anthony Hopkins. He quickly followed that by landing his first major part in Roland Joffe's critically acclaimed film The Killing Fields. Appearing in more than fifty films, some of Sands' most memorable performances were in The Million Dollar Hotel, starring Mel Gibson; Boxing Helena; Naked Lunch; A Room With A View opposite Judy Dench and Helena Bonham-Carter; and Impromptu with Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson and Bernadette Peters. Sands re-teamed with Joffe in 2000 to star in Vatel. In addition, he has appeared in the revolutionary digital film Timecode, featuring Salma Hayek and Holly Hunter, as well as Leaving Las Vegas, starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue; One Night Stand with Robert Downey Jr. and Nastassja Kinski; and The Loss of Sexual Innocence. More recently, Sands starred in the made-for-television movie Stephen King's Rose Red along with the mini series Napoleon. Sands will next be seen in The Visitors and Easy Six. ANTHONY WONG (Lester) is a versatile entertainer who acts, writes and directs. A Hong Kong native, Wong has established himself within the Asian film community by appearing in more than one hundred productions. Most recently, he starred in Infernal Affairs; Cat and Mouse, directed by Gordon Chan; Just One Look; Runaway; Gen-X Cops 2 with Paul Rudd; Hong Kong History X; Beast Cops and The Storm Riders, among others. Wong wrote and directed Top Banana Club and New Tenant. Wong next appears in The Twins Effect with Jackie Chan. Raised in England, Africa and Wales, JOHN RHYS-DAVIES (Commander Hammerstock-Smythe) graduated from the University of East Anglia and refined his acting and writing craft at London's renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Best known for his roles in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Rhys-Davies has worked in theatre, television and film. Most recently, he starred in the first two installments of The Lord of the Rings as Gimli and Treebeard, and the television movie Helen of Troy. Rhys-Davies has starred in numerous films, including The Living Daylights, King Solomon's Mines, The Lost World and Victor/Victoria. His television credits include the movies Lord of the Piercing, Britannic, Great Expectations, War and Remembrance, along with the television series Sliders and The Untouchables. In addition, Rhys-Davies has lent his voice to such projects as The Jungle Book 2, SpongeBob SquarePants, Aladdin and the King of Thieves and The Fantastic Four. On stage, he has performed in The Misanthrope and Hedda Gabler as well as most of Shakespeare's works. Rhys-Davies is currently finishing production on the trilogy The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as well as The Game of Their Lives with Wes Bentley, directed David Anspaugh, and will star in the television mini series La Femme Musketeer, starring Gerard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski.