Born Chan Siu-tsun in Hong Kong in 1967 to a Huizhou family, Jordan Chan moved to the city with his family in 1979 and worked in several trades before joining TVB's dance training class in 1985. He danced behind many stars and formed the group Wind Fire Sea with Michael Tse and Jason Chu. His first film, Twenty Something (1994), won him the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he was also nominated for Best New Performer for He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994). Through the mid-1990s he appeared in UFO productions such as Mack the Knife (1995), and in 1996 he played the sly, womanising Chicken in Young and Dangerous, a role he reprised across the sequels, a spin-off and, in 2018, the reunion film Golden Job. He took on other genres in Downtown Torpedoes (1997) and earned a Golden Horse nomination for Sylvia Chang's Tonight Nobody Goes Home (1996). He released his first solo album in 1997, enjoyed success in the Taiwan market, and in 2002 won a Commercial Radio Ultimate Song Chart award for male singers. On television he played Wei Xiaobao in TVB's The Duke of Mount Deer (1998).
Jordan Chan rose from dancer to actor and singer; his Chicken in the Young and Dangerous series made him one of the emblematic faces of 1990s Hong Kong film and turned the franchise into a pop-culture landmark. He later extended his career into the Taiwan music market and mainland film and television, becoming one of the few Hong Kong artists well known in all three markets.
Achievements
- 1994 · Won Best Supporting Actor at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards for Twenty Something, also nominated for Best New Performer for He's a Woman, She's a Man.
- 1996 · Played Chicken in Young and Dangerous and continued through its sequels and spin-off.
- 1998 · Starred as Wei Xiaobao in TVB's The Duke of Mount Deer.