Jackie Dan

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Biography

Recent Role:
Pedestrian on Ultra
Gender:
Male
Born:
4-19-1986
Birthplace:
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia
Birth Name:
Daniel Leo MacDonald
AKA:
DL MacDonald
Dan MacDonald grew up in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia; a small town of almost 4000 people. While in elementary he aspired and dreamed of many different careers to be when he grew up, Wildlife Photographer, Comic Artist - but when he hit High School he discovered his true calling.

April 4th 2001 at the age of 14, while searching through a Jackie Chan website Dan stumbled upon Eric Jacobus' site; thestuntpeople.com where Eric shot and made available to the net short movie where he and his frieends did action choreography and stunts. Dan began practicing his own stunts and coming

More up with fight scenes to do with his friends.

June 18th 2001 Dan calls together his friend, Cohen MacDonald, and cousin, Brad Murphy; and with the use of his aunts video camera he films his first short movie: The Wooden Dagger.

In May of 2004 Dan recieves a rejection letter from NSCC stating that his films were to violent for enrollment. Now Dan, who is known as Jackie Dan throughout the town and internet, thanks to his website www.jackiedan.cjb.net he turns a new leaf, puts stunt work on hold and begins to shoot movies in which has acting and relevant stories before a fight scene if any.

Due to this change in his film structure Dan discovers his true passion - acting! In May of 2005 Dan moves out of his small town and restarts his career in Toronto by attending the Toronto Film School for their Acting Program. Now a year later Jackie Dan has been changed to DL MacDonald and he currently tries to get as many roles as he can in student and feature films while at the same time maintaining his website and his own short films with a new group and new stunt team. Expect to see this new talent rise up.

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    9.8 Superb
    What we have is a package wrapped in familiar decor, but presenting something new from underneath. Dan is good-looking, projects charm as well as humour, and works hard to give the audience the laughter, the thrills, and the pure entertainment. hide show

    What we have is a package wrapped in familiar decor, but presenting something new from underneath. Dan is good-looking, projects charm as well as humour, and works hard to give the audience the laughter, the thrills, and the pure entertainment. His talent is not only comedy (scripted or improvised), but he hammers down the nails in a drama with such force and with such naturality. One of the outstanding skills which Dan possesses is his stunt work. From choreographing intense martial arts action to performing daredevil displays, he adds the extra kick to his performance. DL MacDonald (aka Jackie Dan) is doing what he loves: acting. While growing up in a small town, Dan got into filmmaking as well as acting and now that he\'s in the big city, he\'s persuing his passion as a career. Was a boy who loved Jackie Chan flicks. Made his own amateur videos, doing stunts and acting. Now he\'s moved from his small town to the big city. Now persuing acting as a career, and sharpening his filmmaking as well as stuntwork, he\'s already accelerating down the road to stardom.

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    9 Superb
    Small town kid who takes his hobby of doing stunts in his own short films does a complete 180. Now he wants to be the actor and makes a leap from small town boy to big city kid to pursue dreams. hide show

    Jackie Dan, so everyone knows has started his career in 2001 as a grade 10 student who was bored. He and a group of friends started a little movie crew that made short films; at first to pass the time and then to put online. JD struggled by making his way as a stunt man who could act.

    But since 2004 Jackie has prized himself in becoming an actor who can do stunts. I'm proud to have seen him go from a pass time to a small business ( jackiedan.cjb.net ) and then moving from Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia to Toronto to make it a career. (dlmacdonald.cjb.net). Everyone keep your eye out!

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