Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, he was enrolled by his father in a Shotokan karate school at the age of ten, which led Van Damme to hold the rank of 2nd-dan black belt in karate, and compete in several karate and kickboxing competitions. As a teenager, he won the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association in 1979 and the Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title in 1978. With the desire of becoming an actor in Hollywood, he moved to the United States in 1982, where he worked on several films, until he got his break as the lead in the martial arts film Bloodsport (1988).
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The Gardener
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Darkness of Man
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The Last Mercenary
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2021
We Die Young
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2019
The Bouncer
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2018
Black Water
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2018
Kickboxer: Retaliation
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2018
Kill 'Em All
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2017
Kickboxer: Vengeance
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2016
Jian Bing Man
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2015
Pound of Flesh
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2015
Swelter
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2014
Welcome to the Jungle
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2013
Enemies Closer
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2013
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2012
Dragon Eyes
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2012
Six Bullets
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2012
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
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2012
Rzhevsky versus Napoleon
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2012
U.F.O.
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Beur sur la ville
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2011
Assassination Games
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2011
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
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2009
JCVD
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol
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Until Death
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The Exam
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The Hard Corps
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Second in Command
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Narco
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2004
Wake of Death
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In Hell
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2003
Derailed
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2002
Replicant
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2001
The Order
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The Order
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2001
Universal Soldier: The Return
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Legionnaire
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Legionnaire
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Inferno
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Knock Off
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1998
Maximum Risk
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Double Team
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1996
The Quest
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1996
Sudden Death
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1996
Street Fighter
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1995
Top Fighter
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Timecop
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Kickboxer 4
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1994
Hard Target
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Nowhere to Run
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Bruce Lee: The Curse of the Dragon
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Universal Soldier
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1992
Double Impact
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1992
Double Impact
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Death Warrant
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1990
Lionheart
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1990
Lionheart
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1990
Cyborg
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1989
Kickboxer
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1989
Kickboxer
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1989
Bloodsport
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1988
Black Eagle
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1988
No Retreat, No Surrender
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1987
Missing in Action
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1985
Breakin'
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1984
Monaco Forever
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1984
Street of the Damned
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1984
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
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