Robin Shou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Robin Shou

actor

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1960

Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China

Profession: martial arts, screenwriter, actor, choreographer, film director, film producer, television actor, film actor

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Shou Wan Por (Chinese: ???, born July 17, 1960), known professionally as Robin Shou, is a Hong Kong Chinese actor, martial artist and stuntman.
Known for his role as Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat film series (1995 and 1997), as Gobei in Beverly Hills Ninja (1997 starring Chris Farley), as Gen in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009), and as 14K in Death Race films (2008-2013), Shou was also a Hong Kong action star in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has appeared in about 40 movies during his Hong Kong career before he entered Hollywood since 1994. Shou's first real dramatic role was in Forbidden Nights in 1990, with Melissa Gilbert.
Though only a TV film, this was his American debut.
However, Shou went back to Hong Kong and continued making movies there.
In 1994, Shou returned to Los Angeles whereupon he appeared as Liu Kang, a Shaolin monk seeking revenge for the death of his younger brother, in Mortal Kombat. Shou also appeared in a minor role in another fighting video game adaptation, DOA: Dead or Alive, based on Tecmo's video game series of the same name, produced by Mortal Kombat director Paul W.
S.
Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt.
He played 14K in the Death Race series, and also appeared as Gen in 2009's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Shou trained Milla Jovovich for her role in Resident Evil.