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  2. Lee Hoi-chuen was born in Jun'an, Guangdong, China on 4 February 1901. He moved to Hong Kong and became a Cantonese opera actor. There, he met and married Grace Ho (1907–1996) who was of half-Cantonese and half-English descent and a daughter of Ho Kom-tong. They had two daughters, Phoebe and Agnes, and three sons, Peter, Bruce and Robert .

  3. Martial artist Bruce Lee was the first Chinese American male to break through racial barriers and become a pop culture hero during the civil rights movement. He was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1940 to Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-chuen. He grew up in Hong Kong watching and acting films.

  4. Jul 12, 2022 · For starters, he was born in San Francisco when his parents stopped in Chinatown as part of an opera tour (his father was famed Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-chuen).

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  6. Apr 24, 2022 · It was within this competitive show business dynamic that the Mandarin booked Bruce’s father Lee Hoi-chuen along with other members of Hong Kong’s Cantonese opera troupe in late 1939.

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    Bruce Lee's birth name was Lee Jun-fan. His father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was a Cantonese opera singer based in Hong Kong. His mother Grace Ho was born in Shanghai, and she was of Eurasian ancestry. [15] In December 1939, his parents traveled to California for an international opera tour in Chinatown, San Francisco. [16]

  8. Bruce Jun Fan Lee was born in the hour of the Dragon, between 6 and 8 a.m., in the year of the Dragon on November 27, 1940 at the Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Bruce was the fourth child born to Lee Hoi Chuen and his wife Grace Ho.

  9. Oct 21, 2002 · Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, at the Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco's Chinatown. His father, Lee Hoi Chuen, an actor on tour with Hong Kong's Cantonese Opera Company, was Chinese. His mother, Grace, a Catholic, was the daughter of a German father and a Chinese mother.

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