He won Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title. He studied ballet for 5 years. Later continued and took Muay Thai and Taekwondo. He started his competitive karate career in Belgium at the age of He has a record consist of 18 wins and only 1 loss from the year to He was selected for their next project. His journey in the film industry started in when he and Michel Qissi his friend shifted to the US with a dream to become famous action heroes.
Both of them tried many jobs for their living. S box office. He had been part of another successful movie Kickboxer and appeared in different characters in the requels. With help from his family he faced his problems and made movies like Replicant , Derailed , and In Hell which did averagely in box office terms, but he tried to give his fans the best, his acting in those movies got better, more emotional and each movie was basically in different action tones.
Sign In. Edit Jean-Claude Van Damme. Showing all 90 items. Martial arts style that combines speed, agility and grace with brutal strength. His fight scenes are so intense that he won't film them in the U.
In , he was sued for willfully gouging the eye of an extra in a sword fight while filming Cyborg Won a court case filed against him by martial arts legend Frank Dux , who claimed he collaborated with Van Damme on his directorial debut The Quest , only for Van Damme to deny him any share of the profits. His evidence was lost in an earthquake.
Coincidentally, Van Damme played Dux in his debut Bloodsport Once said he learned to speak English by watching the cartoon The Flintstones In his late teens he opened a gym called California Fitness Center. Related to Screenwriter Adam Burnett through marriage.
One-time sparring partner of Chuck Norris during the early 80s. Norris eventually cast him in Missing in Action Children: Kris Van Damme b. He was the inspiration for the character Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat , which was initially envisioned as a gaming vehicle for Van Damme, but he and Midway could not come to terms on the costs for using his likeness. One of Johnny Cage's special moves is doing a split while punching his opponent in the groin, as seen when Van Damme's character, Frank Dux , punches his large sumo opponent in Bloodsport Van Damme was the original choice to play the title character in Predator and was part of the production until he was let go.
During the movie's production, Van Damme reportedly was not happy that his face would not be shown on camera and that he would only receive an uncredited special effects role. He was also not comfortable in the original alien suit and passed out due to heat exhaustion.
Supposedly, Van Damme has no regrets on backing out of the Predator project. Often states Charles Chaplin as the first great action star. Adopted Van Damme as his stage name from one of his friend's father name. He considered it punchy, short and clear than his birth name of Van Varenberg. Films often contain injuries to the groin area. Van Damme has an impressive kickboxing record of , with 18 wins by knockout.
For most of these fights, he fought under his birth name of Jean-Claude Van Varenberg. Van Damme lost by disqualification when he accidentally kicked Aubry when he was on the canvas. When Van Damme first arrived in Hollywood in the s, his jobs consisted of waiting tables, delivering pizza, driving a taxi, and acting as a bouncer at Woody's Wharf, a bar owned by Chuck Norris in Newport Beach. In the French-speaking world, Van Damme is well known for the picturesque aphorisms that he delivers on a wide range of topics personal well-being, the environment, etc.
In January , Van Damme featured in an Ultra Tune television advert which was part of a controversial series of ads. Two women were confronted in a car park by a gang of youths in a threatening manner, Van Damme appears to defend them and then the mood lightens and they take pictures with the star.
On 13 November , Volvo Trucks released an advertisement on YouTube that shows Van Damme doing the splits while perched with each of his feet on the outer rearview mirrors of one semi-trailer truck and one box truck moving backwards, which Van Damme describes in the commercial as "the most epic of splits". The video quickly went viral around the web, receiving more than 11 million views in three days, 35 million in the first week. Suffered from mood swings and depressions for years, causing him to seek his refuge in martial arts and drugs.
Finally, after several attempts at rehab, he visited a neurologist who diagnosed him with rapid cycling bipolar disorder. With appropriate medication, he has managed to stay off drugs ever since, and he has even remarried his former wife Gladys Portugues. His very brief work on the production of Predator unexpectedly helped him to become an action star. He was featured in the martial-arts flick No Retreat, No Surrender, but his big break came after he displayed his ability to perform a jumping, degree "helicopter kick" to B-list producer Menahem Golan, who cast the unknown actor in Bloodsport Over the following decade, Van Damme filled the big screen in such action flicks as Double Impact , Universal Soldier , Time Cop , Sudden Death and Maximum Risk , overcoming his limited acting chops with his acrobatic kicks and patented splits.
He made his directorial debut with The Quest , but Double Team and Knock Off were flops, and by the start of the s most of his movies landed in the straight-to-video bin. His performance drew positive reviews and triggered something of a revival for the former action star, who went on to reprise a familiar role in Universal Soldier: Regeneration and voice the character of Master Croc in Kung Fu Panda 2 In , Van Damme was back in his element as part of the veteran butt-kicking ensemble featured in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables 2.
Van Damme became addicted to cocaine and sleeping pills while at the height of his stardom in the s and was arrested for DUI in He was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder during this period, though his condition improved after he began taking medication and got his personal life in order.
Van Damme has been married five times and has three children. Filmibeat: Best Of Vote Now! Jean-Claude Van Damme Biography. Van Damme is best known for his martial arts action movies. Due to his physique and his Belgian background, he is known as "The Muscles from Brussels.
Belgium" bodybuilding title. He emigrated to the United States in to pursue a career in film, and achieved success with Bloodsport , based on a story written by Frank Dux.
He began martial arts at the age of ten, enrolled by his father in a Shotokan karate school. His styles consist of kickboxing, Shotokan karate, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo.
He eventually earned his black belt in karate. Belgium bodybuilding title. At the age of 16 he took up ballet, which he studied for five years. According to Van Damme, ballet "is an art, but it's also one of the most difficult sports. If you can survive a ballet workout, you can survive a workout in any other sport. Most famous and often quoted was his repeated use of the English word aware during an interview for a French channel, to convey the notion of self-awareness as a key to success.
In a interview in the British newspaper The Sun, promoting his film JCVD of which Time magazine said "He deserves not a black belt, but an Oscar" , Van Damme indicated he experienced a period of homelessness "sleeping on the street and starving in L. Van Damme is the father of three children: Kristopher born , Bianca born , and Nicholas born Health and addiction: Van Damme had troubles with cocaine that started during He entered a month-long rehabilitation program in but left it after only one week.
He is also reported to have experienced bipolar disorder.
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