She may not grace billboards like her older brother, Hong Kong superstar actor and martial artist Donnie Yen Ji Dan, but Chris Yen Zi Ching, a wushu master herself, is a poster girl for how to age well.

The siblings learned martial arts from their mother, Mark Bow-sim, who was born in Guangzhou, southern China, and founded the Chinese Wushu Research Institute in Boston in 1976 after emigrating to Massachusetts from Hong Kong in 1975. She taught wushu at Boston University and Harvard University.