Juliana 'JuJu' Chan is a Hong Kong-born American actress, martial artist, model, singer, and writer. She is also a winner in the Miss Chinatown USA 2009 pageant, and has been called the "Female Bruce Lee" by fans. She received her master's degree in Film and Television from New York University. Chan is best known for her role as Silver Dart Shi in the latest , and her role as Zan in Netflix Series Wu Assassins.
2019 - August 8, Wu Assassins was released. JuJu is one of the main characters in the show, and is in 9 out of 10 episodes playing Zan.
2019 - June, Tony Jaa, Frank Grillo, JuJu Chan joined the Nicolas Cage martial arts thriller Jiu Jitsu.
2019 - 30 April, Invincible Dragon was released, starring Chinese action star Max Zhang, MMA legend Anderson Silva and Juju Chan. Directed by Fruit Chan.
2018 - In August 2018, it was announced that Chan would be starring in the role of Zan on the Netflix series, Wu Assassins.
2017 - JuJu is the lead actress in Savage Dog released in July 2017, and she received an acting award, Best Actress in a Feature Film at Widescreen Film and Music Video Festival, Miami, US for her role in Fist of the Dragon.
2016- JuJu acts in ' directed by Yuen Woo Ping'
2014- She is a lead actress in Roger Corman's Hollywood action film Fist of the Dragon playing Meili, who has a love relationship with an MMA fighter Josh Thomson.
2013 Winner of Breakout Female Action Star in Action at Films International Film Festival 2013 for Hit Girls *Award shared with actress Maria Tran*.
2012- She has one of the lead roles, Ping Wei, the head concubine, in Roger Corman's Hollywood thriller Palace of the Damned. Chan also played the lead actress, Pixie Ho, in an Australian-Chinese Production, Hit Girls, an action comedy short film.
2011- Chan played Bruce Lee's kung fu sister in The Young Boxer, her first action film directed by Antony Szeto, also named as Female Bruce Lee by the Hong Kong Press and the only female actress in Hong Kong who has mastered the nunchuckus, including double nunchuchkus.
2009- Chan starred in Lumina as the title character. Lumina started as a web series written and directed by Jennifer Thym. The nine-part web series is a dark fantasy.
In August 2009- Chan participated in the RTHK reality series Rich Mate Poor Mate, where four participants from wealthy backgrounds experience the lives of the not so fortunate. During the 120-hour experience, Chan has to live the life of a single immigrant mother in Hong Kong while taking care of her eight-year-old boy.'
Sporting career
2013 Champion in Female Black Belt Pattern and 3rd in Female Black Belt Sparring in the China Open Championship.
2013- She represented Hong Kong in the Taekwon-Do World Championship in Bulgaria.
2013 Hong Kong Taekwon-Do National Team Representative
2014 Bronze medalist in Female 2nd Dan Pattern in the 7th ITF World Championship in Nepal.
2014 46 kg WMC The One Legend Thai Boxing Championship
Producing career
2013- JuJu is the Associate producer of Roger Corman's action film Fist of the Dragon, directed by Antony Szeto, and filmed at Ace Studios.
Pageant career
Chan participated in the Miss Chinatown USA Pageant in January 2009 in San Francisco, where she won the TVB People's Choice Award. She has also participated at the United Nations Pageants International in July 2009 in Jamaica, where she has won Miss Congeniality, Miss United Nations China, Miss Photogenic, and Miss International Ambassador 2009. She was also a semi-finalist in Miss Hong Kong 2010 but withdrew from the contest for personal reasons.
2011 Hong Kong Metro Radio New Singer Award, 2011年度新城勁爆頒獎禮 - 新城勁爆新登場海外歌手
2011 Hong Kong uChannel Teens most favorite new singer Award, 2011uChannel我撐起樂壇頒獎禮 - 我最喜愛女新人獎
Other work
Since Chan's involvement with Rich Mate Poor Mate she has enrolled in a local organization that works with children. She is part of the organization's mentorship program that helps children in need. In 2010, Chan became the spokesperson and ambassador of Heroes2, a charity organization which focuses on reforestation throughout the areas of rural China. In August, she headlines the Heroes2 event "Be the Heroes2 Environmental Superstars" contest, where the charity searches for rising environmental stars. Chan has also written her first semi-autobiographyTo Live a Beautiful Life, releasing it in June 2010. In the book, Chan discusses her feelings about life, ideas about charity, her charitable mission, and her experiences on Millionaires Fight Poverty.
Personal life
Chan studied at the University of San Francisco and graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors in Computer Science and Mathematics and followed it up with a master's degree from the Tisch School of the Arts TV and film School. She emigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of 3 and settled in San Francisco. She has a twin sister. In her spare time, she enjoys hip hop, ballet, and Latin dancing, skiing, swimming, diving, and playing the piano. On October 1, 2019, Chan married Fist of the Dragon director, Antony Szeto, in Hong Kong.
