An Elite model for Levi’s, Valentino, Gucci, Puma, Adidas, and Yves Saint Laurent, he has been in great demand as an Asian action movie star winning roles in some of Hong Kong’s most popular and exciting cult films. His first movie “Tiger Cage” was made in Hong Kong under the direction of Yuen Woo Ping the same man who action directed films like “The Matrix”, “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”, Charlie’s Angels”, “Kill Bill” and Jet Li’s most recent movie “Fearless”. Tiger Cage became an international blockbuster and opened the doors of this world to him. He has done 25 more movies including “Blonde Fury” (with Cynthia Rothrock), “In the Line of Duty V- Middle Man” (with Cynthia Khan), and “Outlaw Brothers” (with Yukari Oshima) and playing the lead villain who took on Jackie Chan in the climatic battle sequence of “Operation Condor”. “Jackie Chan called Vincent Lyn one of the best fighters he has ever worked with”! Also in Chan’s autobiographical bestseller titled “I am Jackie Chan” one of his Top Ten Best Fights of all time.

At the same time Lyn maintained his parallel passion by composing “canto-pop” songs for recording artists with Polygram Records, two of which became top ten hits. His first self-titled album “WingSing” was released in 1999 throughout Asia under the label BMG. In the same year, he became a Ph.D. in Martial Arts Sciences making outstanding contributions to the field of Sports Medicine. Lyn was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame in two categories, one for Grandmaster of the year and Best Martial Arts Actor of the year. In 2001 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Fame. Since then he has been inducted over ten times into the Hall of Fame. In addition Lyn was the 1983-1984 U.S National Middleweight Kickboxing champion, and 1985 and 1987 World Kickboxing champion.

In a recent feature film “Manhattan Midnight” directed by Alfred Cheung and starring Maggie Q who is currently starring in “Mission Impossible 3”, Lyn was the Action Coordinator and Firearms Wrangler. In 2001, the film won ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Cinematography’ at the Philadelphia Film Festival and in September of 2002 the film garnered a standing ovation at the New York City Film Festival. Since 2003 until the present Lyn has written numerous articles for Budo Magazine and released five instructional videos with Budo International. They have been released in seven languages and distributed in 54 countries. He has been featured in ten books and has appeared in over 100 magazine articles throughout the world. Currently he is working on a book titled “The Seducer” and a new music CD titled “Global Journey”. Also in Pre-Production of a feature film he co-wrote and will star in called “The Healer”. Vincent currently resides in Tribeca, NYC.

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