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Jean-Claude Van Damme
18 October 1960
Jean-Claude Van Damme played in 28 movies in the Action, Drama, Biography, Sport, Sci-Fi, Music, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Adventure, War genres.
Jean-Claude Van Damme got succeed with average imdb rating 5.3.
Belgian-born film star Jean-Claude Van Damme can be called an actor, although it would be more nice to describe him as a bodybuilder and kickboxer. It evidently wasn't in the genes; Van Damme's father was an accountant and flower salesman. Attractive up the study of Shotokan karate at the age of ten, Van Damme went on to win the middleweight championship of the European Experienced Karate Association, where he thrilled one and all with his 360-degree learn by heart-drop-kick.
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... shing in on his name, the 18-year-cast aside Van Damme launched the California Gym in Brussels. When he moved to L.A., he had 7,000 dollars to his nominate and spoke French and Flemish. At prime, he took tons irregular jobs, the least prepossessing of which was as a carpet layer. Van Damme's first film was a bit part in Chuck Norris' Missing in Activity (1984). Groomed representing stardom by Cannon Films' Menahem Golan, Van Damme became a important pin down-part commodity via such epics as No Retreat, No Give way (1986); Bloodsport (1988); Cyborg (1989); Kickboxer (1989), which he co-wrote; Lionheart (1990); and Universal Soldier (1992). Fully cognizant of his own histrionic limitations, Van Damme didn't part at liberty into comedy or "sensitive" roles as has Arnold Schwarzenegger; when starring in the standard futuristic-action haze Timecop (1994), Van Damme wisely left the acting to villain Ron Pretty.
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