- James Pax
James Pax is best known as an actor. He has acted in
Hollywood ,Hong Kong andJapan .He earned a degree in business from
New York University and later studied film production/directing at theUniversity of Southern California . He has lived and worked around the globe includingItaly ,Japan , theUnited States , Hong Kong,Malaysia ,France andChina .His talent as a singer took him to
South America during his teens to perform on TV, becoming the first Asian singer to make it in South America. He has received professional training inballet andKung Fu . In his early 20s he worked as a model in the U.S. and Europe for top fashion designers likeArmani , and was the first Chinese model to appear on a Milan runway in the early 1990s.Upon his graduation from New York University, he worked for one year on
Wall Street as a stock analyst. He then decided to pursue his acting career and moved on to Hollywood, landing roles in "Big Trouble in Little China " withKurt Russell , "Year of Dragon" withJohn Lone , "In Love and War" withJames Woods , "Kinjite" withCharles Bronson , and "Bethune" withDonald Sutherland . He also guest starred in numerous TV shows and appeared as a series regular on "Nasty Boys" in 1990.In 1992, he returned to Asia and started acting in the Hong Kong and Japanese movie industries. In his 30s he became the first Chinese model to appear in a
cigarette campaign in Europe forPhilip Morris and West cigarettes.In 2003 he came to China for the filming of Shanghai Solution in Dalian. While there he also had a failed attempt to start a franchise of drive-thru fast food restaurants which were a copy of the Planet Hollywood theme. He also failed in another business venture to begin an English training school in Dalian which fell through when he failed to produce the necessary funds to gain the needed licenses.
James Pax will be making his directorial debut on the new movies "A Bowl of Fish", "Passion Fruit" and "Last Tango in Shanghai" in 2006. He is also hoping to bring his films to the festivals in
Berlin ,Cannes ,Venice andSundance in 2006.His most recent TV work is "Shanghai Solution", which aired on CCTV8 in August 2005. A true story based on the 30,000
Jew s who fled toChina in 1940s, the series was a huge ratings success on Chinese TV.
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