Peng Zhang Li is a 32nd-generation monk who started training at the age of three at the Shaolin Temple in China.
At the age of twenty-two, he left for the Netherlands for a new life and set up a stage show about the martial arts which ran for five years.
2006 Zhang Li made his acting debut in an American horror thriller movie Tooth Fairy.
2011 Zhang Li acted and directed his second movie The Resistance, a WWII drama mix with Ninja action and Zorro adventure.
Peng Zhang Li continued working with movies during 2012 and 2013, including a similar movie to Last Kung Fu Monk named The Man From Shaolin, and Zhang Li made a name for himself in the industry as the man from Shaolin to Kung Fu Master to actor and director.