Daniel Wu Net Worth

Daniel Wu's Quotes

• I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.
• At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
• You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.
• If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you're pretty much done, and then you're useless.
• I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job.

Interesting Facts about Daniel Wu

1. Education: University of Oregon (BA of Architecture)
2. Speaks English, Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin. Wu's parents are from Shanghai. He grew up speaking Shanghainese and English.
3. Hobbies: Kung Fu practice, travelling, photography
4. Has two elder sisters, named Greta and Gloria.
5. Physique: 39R W32 H37.
6. Favorite sports: basketball, boxing, wushu, boardsports.
7. His best friend is also bandmate Terence Yin.
8. Favorite movies: The Godfather (1972), Pulp Fiction (1994), Citizen Kane (1941)
9. Co-starred in Naked Weapon (2002) (aka 'Naked Weapon') along with ex-girlfriend Maggie Q.
10. Founder and first instructor of the University of Oregon Wushu (Chinese Martial Arts) Club.
11. Posed for renowned Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee for Kee's 2006 charity photo-book "Super Stars", dedicated to the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster, which consist of photographs (mostly erotic) of 300 Asian celebrities by Kee.
12. Is of Shanghainese descent.
13. He was born in Berkeley, California, grew up in Orinda, California and went to high school in Oakland, California.
14. He is referred to as Ng Yin-Cho (or Ng Yin-Jo) in Cantonese and Wu Yan-zu in Mandarin.
15. Together with Andrew Lin, Terence Yin and Conroy Chi-Chung Chan, created the Hong Kong boy band Alive. The band was created as a vehicle to make the film Sei dai tinwong (2006) (aka The Heavenly Kings), a mockumentary about the Hong Kong pop music industry based on their experience.
16. Hong Kong [October 2005]
17. His first English-speaking film was Dayyan Eng's Xing ying bu li (2011) which also stars Kevin Spacey.
18. He has been living in Dublin, Ireland for the past year and attended the Irish Premiere of Tomb Raider (2018) on March 12th in Dublin.
19. Son of Diana, a college professor, and George Wu, an engineer.
20. In an interview published on December 2019, he stated he did not plan to have more than one child, comparing his own birth (as the youngest of his siblings) and his father's age of 45 at the time. In comparison, Daniel was 38 when his daughter was born.