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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?

She’s got a model mum and action movie star dad, but Jasmine Yen, Donnie Yen’s daughter, seems to be headed for a career in music. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram
As the daughter of renowned martial arts action star Donnie Yen and model Cissy Wang, it’s fair to say that Jasmine Yen is no stranger to the spotlight.
Jasmine Yen, Donnie Yen, Cissy Wang and James Yen are a tight knit family, and often support each other in public. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

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 Yen isn’t shy when it comes to performing and singing in front of others – might she make it into a career? Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

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.

Jasmine Yen was close to mum Cissy Wang’s father, and wrote a tribute song for him on the piano after he died. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

Her mother shared the song on her Instagram account too alongside videos showing how close Jasmine was to her grandfather.

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Might she start her own girl group, or go solo?

Jasmine Yen is a talented dancer, and often posts her choreographed routines for her fans. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

With Jasmine’s increasingly impressive vocal talents, there’s no question that she is headed for greatness. Because aside from hitting those high notes, the young Yen can also bust a move. And no, we’re not talking about looking pretty good in a TikTok video, but rather pulling off some seriously professional choreography.

 

For her 17th birthday last year, Jasmine posted a dance video choreographed by Danie Chan. Reminiscent of a slick Shakira or Blackpink MV, the performance had backup dancers, lights, outfit changes and professional make-up. Earlier posts seem to suggest that the teen also loves to dance to Dua Lipa and Britney Spears songs.

Now 18, Jasmine Yen is reportedly as tall as her model mother. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

With her family’s star quality and her singing and dancing talents, it’s definitely no stretch of the imagination to see her becoming Hong Kong’s next big pop star.

She’s appeared in Cosmopolitan and Vogue Taiwan

Jasmine Yen’s Cosmopolitan shoot in 2019 was her first in a major magazine, and dad Donnie Yen proudly shared it on his Facebook page. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

Yen scored her first magazine shoot in Cosmopolitan Hong Kong in 2019. However, when her proud dad shared photos from the shoot on Facebook, not everyone was on board with the outfit the magazine had gone with, criticising the super short shorts, knee high socks and hot pink heels as not being age appropriate, according to Asia One.

Jasmine Yen’s look for Vogue Taiwan drew thousands of positive comments from her Instagram followers. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

Six months after the Cosmopolitan shoot, Yen appeared again in Vogue Taiwan. This time she was rocking an ethereal pink dress and white trainers, and her Instagram followers were in raptures.

The magazine shoot was accompanied by a short interview with the father-daughter duo, where Jasmine can be seen wearing the same dress.

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She’s off to Berklee College of Music

These days Jasmine Yen is all grown up and following in her mum’s fashion forward footsteps. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

One of the best pieces of news the Yen family shared online this year, aside from Jasmine’s seemingly never ending 18th birthday celebrations, was the fact that she was awarded a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in the US.

 

According to mum Wang’s post, she also got accepted into every one of the universities she applied to. Berklee College of Music has been Jasmine’s university of choice since she was 15, Wang wrote.

Jasmine Yen poses with her favourite Chanel bag. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

Famous alumni of the school include John Mayer, Quincy Jones, Charlie Puth, Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford, and award-winning composer of the Game of Thrones score Ramin Djawadi, to name a few.

Although she grew up with famous parents, she still gets star-struck

A young Jasmine Yen meets Selina Gomez back in 2015. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram
The first photo Jasmine posted on Instagram in 2015 was of her and Selena Gomez.
Jasmine Yen said she was “legit over excited” to meet Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and J.J. Abrams alongside her little brother, dad Donnie Yen and mum Cissy Wang. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

In 2016, she posted a throwback photo of her and her little brother with the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, including Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and director J.J. Abrams, saying she was “legit over excited” to meet them.

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Later that same year, she got to see her own father among the cast of the latest Star Wars film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Jasmine Yen with one of her favourite Disney “warriors” (not princesses), Naomi Scott. Photo: @jasmineyen/Instagram

Then, in 2020, she shared a post of herself beaming alongside two of her “favourite Disney warriors”, Mulan and Princess Jasmine (aka Liu Yifei and Naomi Scott).

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  • 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