Meet Hong Kong icon Donnie Yen’s talented daughter, Jasmine Yen: from fangirling over Selena Gomez to posting her own Blackpink-calibre music videos, is the 18 year old set to be a pop star?
- The daughter of Star Wars and John Wick action star Donnie Yen and model Cissy Wang, Jasmine Yen has gone from warbling child to talented teen in recent years
- She dances to Britney Spears and Dua Lipa songs, starred in her own Blackpink-meets-Shakira-esque music video – and just won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in the US
Donnie is a huge name in Hong Kong, but has also made waves in Hollywood with his roles in Star Wars and Mulan, and is about to hit screens again in the hotly anticipated John Wick: Chapter 4. Wang, meanwhile, is a model who won the Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant in 2000.
Daughter Jasmine appears to be a chip off the old block. She already has her mum’s height of 181cm at the age of just 18, according to 8 Days, and clearly loves the entertainment business as much as her parents do.
Here’s what else we know about her.
She’s a singer-songwriter extraordinaire
Jasmine has been impressing Hong Kong with her singing voice since she was 12, and even stood up and performed Whitney Houston’s Greatest Love of All for the audience at 2017’s Save the Children Annual Gala Dinner.
In Donnie’s Instagram dedication to his daughter on her 18th birthday, he posted a video montage that showed her evolution from singing child to talented teen. But one of the things her parents seem most proud of are her songwriting skills. Jasmine wrote a song for her grandfather who died in 2020, titled No Man Could, which she sang on the piano and which Yen posted on his Facebook.
Her mother shared the song on her Instagram account too alongside videos showing how close Jasmine was to her grandfather.