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Belgian actor, martial creative person, director (built-in 1960)

Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Van Damme in 2010
Built-in Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg
(1960-ten-eighteen) xviii October 1960 (age 62)
Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Other names
  • "JCVD"
  • "The Muscles from Brussels"
Division Middleweight
Style Karate, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Taekwondo
Fighting out of Brussels, Belgium
Team Team Goetz
Trainer Claude Goetz
Dominique Valera
Rank 2d Dan Black Chugalug in Shōtōkan Karate
Years active 1976–1982 (martial arts)
1979–present (acting)
Kickboxing record
Total xix
Wins 18
Past knockout xviii
Losses one
Amateur record
Total 48
Wins 44
Losses 4
Other information
Occupation Thespian, erstwhile martial creative person
Spouse

María Rodríguez

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(k. 1980; div. 1984)​

Cynthia Derderian

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(grand. 1985; div. 1986)​

Gladys Portugues

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(m. 1987; div. 1992)​

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(thou. 1999)​

Darcy LaPier

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(m. 1994; div. 1997)​
Children 3
Website jcvdworld.com

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (French: [ʒɑ̃ klod kamij fʁɑ̃swa van vaʁənbɛʁɡ], Dutch: [vɑɱ ˈvaːrə(k)ˌbɛr(ə)x]; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (French: [van dam], Dutch: [vɑn ˈdɑmə]), is a Belgian histrion, martial artist, filmmaker, and fight choreographer. Credited with helping popularize martial arts in flick, Van Damme is widely regarded every bit 1 of the nigh iconic martial arts action stars of all time.[1] [two] [iii] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, at the historic period of ten his father enrolled him in a Shotokan karate school.[10] From there, he went on to develop his fighting skills, both in Shotokan karate and kickboxing.[eleven] He was a member of the Kingdom of belgium Karate Team when it won the European Karate Title on 26 Dec 1979.[12] [xiii] [14] With the desire of becoming an actor, he moved to the United States in 1982, where he did odd jobs and worked on several films, until he got his break every bit the lead in the martial arts film Bloodsport (1988).

Van Damme became a popular activeness picture show star and followed upward with Cyborg (1989), Kickboxer (1989), Lionheart (1990), Decease Warrant (1990), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Nowhere to Run (1993), Difficult Target (1993), Timecop (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Sudden Expiry (1995), The Quest (1996), Maximum Risk (1996), etc. After a decline, Van Damme returned to prominence with the critically acclaimed crime drama JCVD (2008). Thereafter, Van Damme continued starring in more activeness films and playing supporting roles in The Expendables 2 (2012), the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2011–2016), the Kickboxer reboot film serial (2016–2018), Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022), etc.

Early life and educational activity

Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, on 18 October 1960, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, the son of Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, who was an auditor and florist.[15] [xvi] [17] [eighteen] His father is from Brussels and bilingual, and his female parent is Flemish (Dutch-speaking).[nineteen] Van Damme was brought up Roman Catholic. His paternal grandmother was Jewish.[20]

He began martial arts at the historic period of 10, enrolled by his begetter in a Shōtōkan karate schoolhouse.[21] His styles consist of Shōtōkan Karate and Kickboxing.[22] He eventually earned his blackness belt in karate at 18.[23] He started lifting weights to ameliorate his physique, which eventually led to a Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title.[24] At the age of sixteen, he took upwards ballet, which he studied for v years. According to Van Damme, ballet "is an art, but it'southward also i of the about difficult sports. If y'all tin can survive a ballet conditioning, you lot can survive a workout in any other sport."[25] Later he took upward both Taekwondo and Muay Thai.[26]

Career

Early 1970s to 1980: Martial arts and first picture show appearance

At the historic period of 12,[27] Van Damme joined the Heart National de Karaté (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Claude Goetz in Belgium. Van Damme trained for four years and he earned a spot on the Belgian Karate Squad; he later trained in total-contact karate and kickboxing with Dominique Valera.[13]

At the historic period of fifteen, Van Damme started his competitive karate career in Belgium. From 1976 to 1980, Van Damme compiled a record of 44 victories and iv defeats in tournament and not-tournament semi-contact matches.

Van Damme was a member of the Kingdom of belgium Karate Team when information technology won the European Karate Championship on 26 December 1979 at La Coupe François Persoons Karate Tournament in Brussels.[13] [28]

Van Damme placed second at the Challenge Coupe des Espoirs Karate Tournament (1st Trials). At the 3-mean solar day tournament, Van Damme defeated 25 opponents before losing in the finals to teammate Angelo Spataro.[13]

On 8 March 1980, in Brussels, Belgium, Van Damme competed against his former teammate Patrick Teugels at the Woods National Arena on the undercard of the Dan Macaruso-Dominique Valera Professional Karate Association Low-cal-Heavyweight World Championship bout.[xiii] Prior to this match, Teugels had defeated Van Damme twice by determination, including a friction match for the Belgium Lightweight Championship. Van Damme had a 1977 victory over Teugels. Teugels was coming off an impressive showing at the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations Globe Championships four months earlier, and was favored by some to win this match. According to reports, and Patrick Teugels' own interview (with photos), Teugels lost to Van Damme by TKO in the 1st round. Teugels was kicked in the nose and was unable to go along as a result.[xiii] In a 2013 interview, Van Damme called this fight his well-nigh memorable friction match.[29]

Van Damme began his full-contact career in 1977, when Claude Goetz promoted the outset ever total-contact karate tournament in Belgium.

From 1977 to 1982, Van Damme compiled a tape of 18 victories (18 knockouts) and 1 defeat[ commendation needed ].

In 1979, he had an uncredited office in André Delvaux's Woman Between Wolf and Dog, a Belgian-French drama movie starring Marie-Christine Barrault, and Rutger Hauer.

In 1980, Van Damme caught the attention of Professional Karate Magazine publisher and editor Mike Anderson and multiple European champion Geert Lemmens. Both men tabbed Van Damme as an upcoming prospect.[30] Van Damme retired from competition in 1982.

During his early on life, Van Damme sold flowers in restaurants, and got a loan to open a gym to salvage some money before his move to the United States.[31]

1982 to 1988: Early works and breakthrough

In 1982, Van Damme and childhood friend Michel Qissi moved to the Us in the hope of working equally actors. They did a variety of jobs to support themselves. Their beginning task working on a moving-picture show as extras in the hip hop trip the light fantastic flick Breakin' (1984), fabricated past Cannon Films. They are seen dancing in the groundwork at a trip the light fantastic sit-in.[32]

Effectually that time he developed a friendship with action martial art film star Chuck Norris. They started sparring together, and Van Damme started to piece of work as a bouncer at a bar named Woody's Wharf, endemic past Norris.[33]

In the 1984 action film Missing in Action starring Norris, which was likewise released by Cannon Films, Van Damme is credited in the stunt team crew.[34] That same twelvemonth he as well had a office in the comedy short film Monaco Forever.[35] [36]

On 2 May 1986, Corey Yuen's martial arts film No Retreat, No Give up premiered in Los Angeles.[37] It was Van Damme'south beginning sizeable role when he was cast as the Russian villain. Information technology starred Kurt McKinney, and was released through New World Pictures.[38] [39] McKinney performs as Jason Stillwell, a U.Southward. teenager who learns karate from the spirit of Bruce Lee. Stillwell uses these lessons to defend his martial arts dojo confronting a Soviet martial artist played past Van Damme.[40] He was fix to star in No Retreat, No Give up 2, simply backed out.[41]

Van Damme worked for director John McTiernan for the film Predator (1987) as an early (eventually abandoned) version of the titular conflicting, before existence removed and replaced by Kevin Peter Hall.[42] Equally the first selection to play the titular Predator character, with the intent that he would use his martial arts skills to make the alien an agile, ninja-like hunter, but later on few days shot, he left the film. It was reported that Van Damme constantly complained virtually the monster suit being too hot and causing him to laissez passer out; he allegedly too voiced reservations about but appearing on camera in the adapt. Additionally, information technology became apparent that a more than physically imposing histrion was needed to make the animal appear threatening against the squad of soldiers. The role eventually went to Kevin Peter Hall.[43] Afterwards Predator was a success, Van Damme said that he appreciated the movie and that he had no regrets almost missing that office.

Van Damme's breakout moving-picture show was Bloodsport, which opened on 26 February 1988, based on the declared true story of Frank Dux.[44] Information technology was shot on a $i.5-1000000 budget for Cannon.[45] [46] The film is about U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux (played by Van Damme), trained from his youth in the ways of ninjutsu past Senzo Tanaka, who honors his mentor by taking the place of Tanaka's deceased son Shingo in the illegal martial-arts tournament Kumite in Hong Kong.[47] [48] It became a U.S. box-office hitting in the spring of 1988. Producer Marking Di Salle said he was looking for "a new martial arts star who was a ladies' man, [but Van Damme] appeals to both men and women. He'south an American hero who fights for justice the American way and kicks the stuffing out of the bad guys."[49] Also in 1988, Van Damme played another Russian villain, in Black Eagle, opposite Sho Kosugi. In the film, Sho Kosugi is a martial artist and special operative for the U.Southward. authorities codenamed "Black Hawkeye", and summoned past his superiors after an F-111 carrying an experimental black ops laser tracking device was shot down over Malta by Russian forces.[50]

1989 to 1999: International stardom

After the success of Bloodsport, Cannon Films offered Van Damme the atomic number 82 in Delta Force ii, American Ninja iii or Cyborg, a cyperpunk martial arts moving picture directed by Albert Pyun.[51] Van Damme chose Cyborg which premiered in 1989. The film was a depression upkeep box office success and led to two sequels, neither of which Van Damme appeared in.

Cannon used Van Damme once more in Kickboxer released that same year. It was highly successful, returning over $l million on a $three-million budget.[52] The moving picture started the Kickboxer franchise. Van Damme did not appear in any of the film'south 4 sequels, though he did return every bit a dissimilar character in the reboot series.

In 1990 Van Damme starred in Death Warrant, the get-go script credit for David Due south. Goyer. Likewise that year he starred in Lionheart.[53] Lionheart was directed by Sheldon Lettich who had co-written Bloodsport, and said the pic was "the first movie to demonstrate that Van Damme was more than simply a flash-in-the-pan "Karate Guy" who would never rise to a higher place simplistic low-budget karate movies."[54] It also featured rear nudity from Van Damme which Lettich says "became a very memorable moment for the ladies in the audience, and for the gay guys as well. Showing off his butt (clothed or unclothed) almost became a signature trademark of his afterwards that."[54]

In 1991, Double Impact was released. Directed by Lettich, it features Van Damme in the dual role of Alex and Chad Wagner, estranged twin brothers fighting to avenge the deaths of their parents. Upon its opening information technology received mixed reviews. The Los Angeles Times said the film "delivers the goods", while Variety didn't like the plotline and predicted a bomb. The movie grossed $ 23,683,813 in its first 28 days.[55] It made a total of $xxx,102,717 in the United states of america.[56] Retrospective critics perceive it to exist a fun activeness film, with skilful comical moments, and a good performance by Van Damme who plays two singled-out characters.[57] [58] [59] [60]

In 1992, Van Damme starred in 1 of the biggest blockbusters of the twelvemonth in the sci-fi action motion-picture show Universal Soldier directed by Roland Emmerich for Carolco. Van Damme (every bit Luc Deveraux) and Dolph Lundgren (every bit Sergeant Andrew Scott) play U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War who are sent to secure a village against North Vietnamese forces. However they cease up shooting each other dead afterward Devereaux discovers that Scott has gone insane and has resorted to mutilating the villagers and barbarically cutting off their ears, taking an innocent girl and boy hostage.[61] They are later reanimated in a secret Army projection along with a big group of other previously dead soldiers and sent on a mission as GR operatives. At the 1992 Cannes Flick Festival, Van Damme and Lundgren were involved in a verbal altercation that almost turned physical when both men pushed each other merely to be separated, merely it was believed to have only been a publicity stunt.[62] [63] Universal Soldier opened in theatres on 10 July 1992, a moderate success domestically with $36,299,898 in U.s. ticket sales, but a major blockbuster worldwide, making over $65 million overseas, which earned the film a total of $102 million worldwide, on a $23 million upkeep.[64]

Van Damme was considered to play Simon Phoenix in Demolition Human [65] and was briefly considered for the role of Michael Cheritto in Heat.[66]

In 1993 Van Damme made a cameo in Concluding Activeness Hero, and starred in Nowhere To Run. The film was the beginning in a 3-motion picture deal between Van Damme and Columbia Pictures and his fee was $3.v million. Columbia said the film is "truthful to his audience and goes beyond his audition."[68]

In 1994, he starred in Hard Target for Universal, the start American flick from manager John Woo. As well released that year he starred in Timecop, playing a time-traveling cop.[69] Directed past Peter Hyams, the film was a huge success, grossing over $100 meg worldwide, and remains his highest-grossing film in a lead role to appointment. Likewise that year, Van Damme starred in Street Fighter, written and directed by Steven E. de Souza for Universal and based on the video game. It was poorly received critically. Though a commercial success, making approximately iii times its production toll.

Van Damme and Hyams re-teamed for Universal' on Sudden Death released in 1995. Van Damme plays a French Canadian-built-in fireman with the Pittsburgh Burn Bureau who suffered a personal crunch afterwards he was unable to salve a immature girl from a house fire. At present removed from active duty, Darren has become demoted to being fire marshal for the Pittsburgh Civic Loonshit, where a gang of terrorists are holding U.S. Vice President and several other VIPs hostage in a luxury suite during a game.

In 1996, Van Damme starred and turned managing director for The Quest. That twelvemonth, he appeared in the Tv show Friends in the two-part episode "The One After the Superbowl". He also starred in Maximum Risk, the first American picture directed by Ringo Lam, and their first collaboration.

Van Damme'southward first box office flop since he became a star was Double Squad (1997), a buddy pic with basketball superstar Dennis Rodman. Information technology was Hong Kong manager Tsui Hark'due south American debut.

In 1998, he and Hark reunited on Knock Off. Too that year, Van Damme acted in the costume activity flick, Legionnaire. Despite a $35 million upkeep, information technology was not released theatrically in the US, just overseas.[lxx]

In 1999, Van Damme starred in Universal Soldier: The Return, (1999), where he returns equally Luc Deveraux. That year he besides starred in Inferno.

2000s: Subsequent films

Released in 2001, Replicant is the 2d collaboration between Van Damme and managing director Ringo Lam, and the fifth time that Van Damme has starred in a dual role. Information technology co-stars Michael Rooker. Besides that twelvemonth he starred in The Club, directed by Sheldon Lettich, and written past Van Damme.[71]

In 2002 he starred in Derailed.

In Hell is a 2003 American prison action pic directed by Ringo Lam. It is the tertiary collaboration between Van Damme and Lam. Van Damme plays an American working overseas in Magnitogorsk, Russia. That same year, Van Damme employed his dancing training in the music video for Bob Sinclar's "Kiss My Eyes".

His 2004 moving picture was Wake of Death, an activeness motion-picture show directed by Philippe Martinez. Ringo Lam was the original manager, but he left the project after a few weeks of filming in Canada. It co-stars Simon Yam, Valerie Tian, Tony Schiena, etc.

In 2005, he played himself in the French moving-picture show Narco.

In 2006, he starred in Second in Command directed by Simon Fellows, and The Hard Corps directed past Sheldon Lettich.

In 2007, played a small role in The Exam, a Turkish comedy-drama pic directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak. Also that year he starred in Until Decease.[72]

Van Damme on the fix of JCVD in October 2007

Van Damme returned to the mainstream with the express theatrical release of the 2008 film JCVD, which received positive reviews. Fourth dimension Mag named Van Damme'southward performance in the flick the second all-time of the year (later on Heath Ledger's The Joker in The Dark Knight),[73] having previously stated that Van Damme "deserves not a blackness belt, just an Oscar."[74] Likewise in 2008, he starred in Isaac Florentine's The Shepherd: Border Patrol.

He so reprised his role every bit Luc Deveraux aslope Dolph Lundgren in the 2009 motion picture Universal Soldier: Regeneration, directed past John Hyams. The film was released theatrically in the Eye East and Southeast Asia and directly to video in the United States and other parts of the world. Since its release, the moving picture has received better than average reviews for a directly-to-DVD franchise sequel.[75] [76] [77]

2010–present: Electric current work

In 2010, Van Damme directed himself in the barely released Full Love. That aforementioned year, he turned downward the office of Gunner Jensen in the first instalment of The Expendables and the role went to Dolph Lundgren.[78]

In 2011, Van Damme voiced Primary Croc in the computer animation film Kung Fu Panda 2. In the film, Van Damme voices a character who helps the heroes of the previous moving picture. That same year, he co-starred with Scott Adkins in Assassination Games. Also in 2011, he played a role in the French comedy Beur sur la ville. Also that year, Van Damme starred in his ain reality Idiot box show Behind Closed Doors. The show showcases his family life, his personal troubles, and an upcoming fight. Since 2009, Van Damme has been planning to make a comeback to fight former boxing Olympic gilt-medalist Somluck Kamsing.[79] [80] [81] The fight was a focal point in his ITV reality show Backside Closed Doors. The fight has been repeatedly postponed, with many critics doubting it will occur, specially due to the difficulty of booking the venue.[82]

In 2012, he acted in the Russian one-act moving-picture show named Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon, and U.F.O. [ boosted commendation(s) needed ] [83] He starred in Dragon Optics, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, and Half-dozen Bullets.[ additional commendation(southward) needed ] [84] Also that yr, he starred every bit the primary villain in The Expendables two. The film serial follows a mercenary grouping as they undertake a mission which evolves into a quest for revenge against a rival mercenary (Van Damme). The film was a success. it grossed over $310 meg worldwide. Also that yr, Van Damme was seen as role of Kam Sing's ring coiffure when Kam Sing fought against Jomhod Kiatadisak.[85] He also appeared in commercials for Coors Low-cal beer, showing him on a snow-covered mount wearing a sleeveless denim jacket,[86] and for the washing powder Dash. On 21 Oct 2012, Van Damme was honored with a life-size statue of himself in his hometown of Brussels. He told reporters during the unveiling, "Belgium is paying me dorsum something, simply really information technology'due south to pay back to the dream. And then when people come by here, information technology is non Jean-Claude van Damme only it's a guy from the street who believed in something. I desire the statue to stand for that".[87]

In 2013 Van Damme acted in the comedy Welcome to the Jungle. Besides that year, he played the main villain in Enemies Closer, an American activity thriller moving picture directed by Peter Hyams.[88] On 13 November 2013, Volvo Trucks released an advertisement on YouTube that shows Van Damme doing the splits while perched with each of his anxiety on the outer rearview mirrors of one semi-trailer truck and i box truck moving backwards, which Van Damme describes in the commercial as "the most epic of splits". The video quickly went viral effectually the web, receiving more than 11 million views in 3 days,[89] 35 million in the outset week.[90] It was dubbed as The Ballsy Split.[91]

Swelter is a 2014 American activeness picture where he plays one of the leads. Information technology stars Lennie James, and co-stars Grant Bowler, Josh Henderson, and Alfred Molina. James plays a sheriff in a small town who has a dark past that he tin can not think, only to have to confront information technology when his ex-partners show up looking for stolen coin they believe he has.

2015, he starred in the action thriller film Pound of Flesh, directed by Ernie Barbarash. Besides that year, he had a supporting office in a Chinese superhero parody moving-picture show.

In 2016, he returned to his vocalisation office of Primary Croc in the Kung Fu Panda franchise for the third installment. Besides that year, he acted in Kickboxer: Vengeance directed past John Stockwell. It is a reboot of the original where Van Damme was the pb. That twelvemonth he also played the lead in the tv serie Jean-Claude Van Johnson.

In 2017, he starred in Impale 'Em All, an action film directed by Peter Malota.

In 2018, he returned to his role in Kickboxer: Retaliation, a sequel to the reboot.[92] That same year, he acted in Black Water. It co-stars Dolph Lundgren in the fifth collaboration between both actors[93] as well every bit the first time they appear together equally on-screen allies.[94] In 22 August of that same year, he starred in Julien Leclercq's The Bouncer.

In 2019, Van Damme starred in We Die Young.

In 2021, Van Damme starred in The Final Mercenary.

In 2022, Van Damme voiced the character Jean-Clawed in the computer animation movie Minions: The Rise of Gru.

Monument

The unveiling of the Van Damme statue in Belgium (2012)

Van Damme Monument in Qabala, Azerbaijan

In 2012, a statue of the actor was unveiled in Anderlecht, Belgium. The artwork, which depicts a younger incarnation of the Muscles from Brussels in one of his fighting poses from the movie Kickboxer, was deputed to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Westland Shopping circuitous. The unveiling took identify on Boulevard Sylvain Dupuis and was attended past Van Damme, his parents, Wallonia-Brussels culture minister Fadila Laanan [nl] and nearly 2,000 fans. Van Damme said the statue "represented the dream of a Brussels kid" and was "for all the children who want something bad", adding that "if you believe in something strongly plenty, it can come up truthful".[95]

In 2019, a Van Damme monument was mounted in the Vandam village of Qabala, Azerbaijan, due to the similarity of the village proper noun and Van Damme's name. The actor subsequently published a post on his Facebook account, thanking those responsible.[96]

Controversies

Lawsuit and fight tape controversy

In 1997, Frank Dux, the martial creative person whom Van Damme portrayed in Bloodsport, filed a lawsuit confronting Van Damme for $50,000 for co-writing and consultation work Dux did on the 1996 movie The Quest. According to the lawsuit, Dux besides defendant Van Damme of lying to the public near his martial arts fight record, stating that when Dux tutored Van Damme while Van Damme was laying carpet for a living, Van Damme exhibited a lack of martial arts skills. Van Damme's lawyer, Martin Vocaliser, responded, "There are records to document his martial arts acclaim. Why, just expect at his movies; he didn't get those roles on his acting ability! He'due south the i who does those splits on chairs. He doesn't have a stuntman to practise that."[97]

Steven Seagal incident

In 2008, actor Sylvester Stallone declared to the British magazine FHM that "At a party in my habitation in Miami in 1997, Van Damme was tired of Steven Seagal claiming he could kick his donkey so he offered Seagal outside into my back m." Co-ordinate to Stallone, Seagal made his excuses and left while Van Damme tracked him down at a nightclub and challenged him once again. Stallone finished by stating "Van Damme was as well strong. Seagal wanted none of it."[98]

Chuck Zito incident

Tensions arose between Van Damme and bodyguard/stuntman Chuck Zito when Zito began dating Van Damme's estranged wife Darcy LaPier. Zito was reportedly unhappy virtually LaPier'south claim in a divorce activity that Van Damme had abused her.[99] On half-dozen February 1998, the New York Daily News reported that Van Damme had been punched by Zito the previous night at the Scores strip guild in Manhattan, New York.[100] Zito, who had previously bodyguarded Van Damme and did stunts on the film Nowhere to Run, recalled the incident in his 2002 autobiography Street Justice, challenge that he suffered a broken hand as a result of striking Van Damme several times after Van Damme made disparaging remarks most him to a club bouncer, who so relayed the comments to Zito.[101] Van Damme denied in an appearance on Inside Edition days after the incident that he had been struck past Zito and challenged Zito to a fight.[99] Zito has stated: "I hope we can be friends again, only he was abusive. Some people will take that kind of abuse. I am not one of them."[102]

Kadyrov event

In Oct 2011, Van Damme, forth with other celebrities including Hilary Swank, Vanessa-Mae and Seal attracted criticism from human rights groups for attending an outcome in Russian federal field of study Chechnya's capital letter Grozny on the 35th birthday of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov on five Oct.[103] Homo rights groups, who had urged the celebrities to abolish their appearances considering of abuses carried out under Kadyrov, criticised the celebrities for attending the consequence.[104] Human Rights Sentinel released a statement which said, "Ramzan Kadyrov is linked to a litany of horrific man rights abuses. Information technology's inappropriate for stars to get paid to political party with him [...] And getting paid to be role of such a lavish show in Chechnya trivializes the suffering of countless victims of homo rights abuses at that place."[105] [106]

Public prototype and influence

In the French-speaking earth, Van Damme is well known – and often mocked – for the picturesque aphorisms that he delivers on a wide range of topics (personal well-being, spirituality, the environment, women, dogs, his ability to crack walnuts with his buttocks, his realization that Christianity is flawed based on the fact that "snakes are overnice" and "apples comprise pectin which is anti-cholesterol", etc.) in a sort of Zen franglais.[107] He was deeply affected by his depiction in the media and the frequent derisive use of his interviews in comedy shows in the early on 2000s, becoming increasingly reluctant to grant new interviews in French. He later explained that he was trying to communicate bits of his difficult-earned wisdom to young uneducated people dreaming of success, like he used to exist himself, and had to struggle with the time constraints of TV, with his difficulties reacquainting with the French linguistic communication, and with the effects of jet lag, oftentimes resulting in a clumsy, haphazard delivery. His public image in the French-speaking world became a major theme of the 2008 flick J.C.V.D. (directed past Mabrouk El Mechri, a fan of Van Damme's from his childhood, who sought to rehabilitate him by exploring those bug head-on).

The original video game Mortal Kombat was conceived every bit a fighting game based on Van Damme.[108] Creators Ed Boon and John Tobias had originally wanted to star Van Damme himself in the game. That fell through equally he had a prior bargain for some other game nether the auspices of the Sega Genesis platform. Ed Boon and John Tobias eventually decided to create a different character for the game named Johnny Cage, who is modelled later on Van Damme, primarily from Van Damme's advent and outfit in the martial arts moving-picture show Bloodsport.[109] [110] In the High german version of the Donkey Kong 64 website, DK'south greatest hero is Jean-Claude van Kong.

Renowned UFC fighter Georges St-Pierre was inspired by Van Damme, and described fighting him in the film Kickboxer: Vengeance equally "a dream come true".[111]

In Jan 2017, Van Damme featured in an Ultra Melody television advert which was office of a controversial series of ads.[112] 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 accept pictures with the star.[113]

In October 2020, Van Damme rescued a iii-month-former chihuahua, saving her from euthanasia later on a legal tussle between Norway and Bulgaria.[114]

Personal life

By the mid-1990s, the stress of the constant filming and promotion of his films, as Van Damme explains, led him to develop a cocaine addiction, on which he spent upwards to $ten,000 a calendar week, and consuming upwards to 10 grams per day by 1996. He was arrested for driving under the influence in 1999.[115] [116] [117] Attempts at drug rehabilitation were unsuccessful, and he resorted to resolve his habit via quitting common cold turkey and practice.[115] In 1998, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[115] [116] [118] In 2011, he discussed the condition on the British reality show Behind Airtight Doors, saying, "Sometimes you're gonna like me, and sometimes you're gonna hate me. But what can I do? I'g non perfect ... I'm an farthermost bipolar, and I'chiliad taking medication for this ... When I was young, I was suffering those swing moods. In the morning, the heaven was blue [when I was] going to school, and to me, the sky was black. I was then sorry."[119]

Van Damme has been married five times to iv different women. Until 1992 he was married to his third wife, bodybuilder Gladys Portugues, with whom he has two children, Kristopher (born 1987) and Bianca Brigitte (born 1990).[120]) He had begun an affair with actress Darcy LaPier, whom he married in Feb 1994. From this spousal relationship, the couple has a son named Nicholas (born 10 October 1995). That aforementioned year he had an affair with his Street Fighter co-star Kylie Minogue during filming in Thailand.[121] [122] LaPier, who was significant with their son at the time, did non go aware of the affair until Van Damme publicly admitted it in 2012.[123]

Van Damme had been in a decade long relationship with Model Alena Kaverina, though yet married to Gladys Portugues.[124] Kaverina was built-in in Ukraine; Van Damme visited the country during the Russian invasion of Ukraine to testify his back up.[125] [126]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year Championship Role Notes
1996 Friends Himself Episode: "The 1 After the Superbowl"
2004 Las Vegas Himself Episode: "Die Fast, Dice Furious"
2009 Robot Chicken Himself / Count Dracula / Rhett Butler (voices) Episode: "Maurice Was Defenseless"
2011 Jean Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors Himself 8 episodes; besides producer
2011 Les Anges Gardiens Himself 20 episodes
2016 Sense8 Himself Episode: "Happy F*cking New Year"
2016–2017 Jean-Claude Van Johnson Johnson / Filip 6 episodes; also executive producer for "Pilot"
2020 Les Anges Asian Dream Himself
2022 Ramez Movie Star Himself Arabian pranks show, represented by him and Ramez Galal
2023 Jean-Claude Van Damme, Coup sur Soup Himself Boob tube Special

Music videos

Yr Song title Creative person(south)
1992 "Body Count'southward in the Business firm" Body Count
1994 "Time Won't Let Me" The Smithereens
"Straight to My Feet" MC Hammer featuring Deion Sanders
1995 "Something There" Chage and Aska
1999 "Vanquish 'Em" Megadeth
2003 "Kiss My Optics" Bob Sinclar
2008 "Ya Lyublyu Ego" Iryna Bilyk and Olga Gorbacheva
2015 "The Hum"[128] Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs. Ummet Ozcan
2020 "Ultrarêve"[129] AaRON

Video games

Yr Title Part
1995 Street Fighter: The Motion picture Colonel Guile
2021 Warpath [130] Himself (fictional general)
2023 Mortal Kombat i Johnny Cage (likeness)

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result
1988 Golden Raspberry Honour Worst New Star[131] Bloodsport Nominated
1992 MTV Movie Award Most Desirable Male person Double Impact Nominated
1993 Nowhere to Run Nominated
1994 Difficult Target Nominated
1998 Aureate Raspberry Award Worst Screen Couple (with Dennis Rodman) Double Team Won
2001 Video Premiere Award Best Player Replicant Nominated
2004 Bollywood Movie Honor International Activity Super Star Himself Won
2008 Silver Leopard All-time Actor JCVD Nominated
2009 TFCA Award All-time Functioning, Male Nominated
2014 Golden Lotus Award Outstanding Accomplishment of Activeness Movies Prove Himself Won

Championships and accomplishments

Mr. Belgium bodybuilding Championships (1976 Gold)

Belgium Karate Lightweight Championships (1977 Gold)

Kingdom of belgium Karate team European Championships (1979 Gold)

Belgium Coupe des Espoirs Karate Tournament Championships (1980 Silver)

Semi-contact / light-contact tape

Consequence Tape Opponent Method Engagement Round Event Location Notes
Win 44-4-0 Belgium Jonny Wellum Decision 7 May 1980 3 WAKO Brussels, Kingdom of belgium Light-Contact (Van Damme avenges early career defeat)
Win 43-4-0 Belgium Jordy Claes 1980 Gala International WAKO Light-Contact
Win 42-4-0 Belgium Patrick Teugels[13] fifty'abandon (TKO) 8 March 1980 1 Forest Nationals Low-cal-Contact (Teugels suffers a cleaved nose and is unable to keep)
Win 41-4-0 Hungary Andras Kovacs Decision 1980 3 WAKO Semi-Contact
Win 40-4-0 Algeria Bekim-Moussa Muhammad
Win 39-4-0 Algeria Mustapha-Ahmad Benamou
Win 38-4-0 Germany Reinhard Krass Disq. 26 December 1979 2 Karate Tournament: Belgium Team vs. German Squad Woluwe, Brussels, Belgium Lite-Contact[13]
Win 37-4-0 Portugal Gilberto Dias l'carelessness November 1979 ane World All-styles Karate Organization Brussels, Belgium Light-Contact (Dias suffers talocrural joint injury and is unable to continue)
Win 36-4-0 Germany Hans Kohler Decision 1979 iii Ingelmunster, Belgium Semi-Contact
Loss 35-four-0 Belgium Patrick Teugels WAKO Tampa, Florida, U.s.a. Light-Contact (Both men fight in karate-gi uniforms, no pads or gloves)
Win 35-3-0 Belgium Matthias Evrard Cup of Antwerp World All-styles Karate Organisation Antwerp, Belgium Semi-Contact
Win 34-3-0 Belgium Paul Sperati World All-styles Karate Organization Opprebais, Belgium
Win 33-three-0 Belgium Lucus Reinfeld World All-styles Karate Organization, Europe Interland Cup Mulhouse, Belgium
Win 32-three-0 Belgium Robbe Bogaerts 1978 Promise Cup Earth All-styles Karate System Brussels, Belgium Semi-Contact[132]
Win 31-3-0 Belgium Leonard Baptiste World All-styles Karate Organization Izegem, Belgium Semi-Contact
Win 30-3-0 Portugal Fernando Cabanela Globe All-styles Karate Organization
Loss 29-3-0 Belgium Angelo Spataro[13] Claiming Coupe des Espoirs Karate Tournament (1st Trials) Antwerp, Belgium Light-Contact
Win 29-2-0 Belgium Gabriel van der Driessche
Win 28-2-0 Belgium Farid Muhammad Mousseau
Win 27-2-0 Belgium Jacques van Laere
Win 26-2-0 Belgium Christian Hedin
Win 25-2-0 Belgium Gerard Charon
Win 24-2-0 Portugal David Arranz
Win 23-2-0 Belgium Bernard Redden
Win 22-2-0 Belgium Antoine Redi
Win 21-2-0 Belgium Ben Salah Ellah
Win 20-two-0 Belgium Gaston Airey Foul 1
Win 19-2-0 Belgium Abdembi Hassan Ali Decision 3
Win 18-two-0 Portugal Jonas "Marcel" Cohen Decision
Win 17-2-0 Belgium Christian van Tieghem
Win 16-2-0 Belgium Max Roelandt
Win 15-2-0 Belgium Andre Verbon
Win fourteen-2-0 Belgium Michel Juvillier
Win 13-2-0 Belgium Joel Maoreau
Win 12-2-0 Belgium Ronald Duivenbode Semi-Contact
Loss 11-two-0 Belgium Patrick Teugels Belgium Lightweight Championship Antwerp, Belgium Calorie-free-Contact
Win xi-1-0 Belgium Gris Lubbers 1976 European Karate Marriage Ingelmunster, Belgium Semi-Contact
Win 10-i-0 Belgium Andre Lemaire 1977 World Association of Kickboxing Organizations Open up International Izegem, Belgium
Win 9-ane-0 Belgium Patrick Teugels Antwerp Open up International Competition WAKO Antwerp, Kingdom of belgium Light-Contact[ citation needed ]
Win 8-i-0 Belgium Maurice Devos Globe Allstyles Kickboxing Organization Semi-Contact
Win seven-1-0 France Jacques Berri 1976 Antwerp Open WAKO
Win half-dozen-ane-0 Belgium Johannes Binding Antwerp, Belgium
Win 5-1-0 France Jean-Morin Devigne
Win four-1-0 Belgium Roland Vedani 1976 iii European Karate Spousal relationship Ingelmunster, Kingdom of belgium
Win iii-one-0 Belgium Jean-Paul Gaston Brussels, Belgium
Loss ii-ane-0 Belgium Jonny Wellum 22 January 1976 La Federation Europeene de Karate (European Karate Federation) Brussels, Belgium Semi-Contact (J. Vandenberg credit with defaite)
Win 2-0-0 Belgium Bernard Briers Semi-Contact (J. Vandenberg credit with victoire)
Win 1-0-0 Belgium Robin Lomard Semi-Contact (J. Vandenberg credit with victoire - Karate magazine Boxe francaise)

Kickboxing record

Result Record Opponent Method Engagement Circular Time Upshot Location Notes
Win 18-1-0 India Nedjad Gharbi KKO 1982 i Brussels, Kingdom of belgium Kickboxing
Win 17-i-0 Belgium Daniel Le Jaouen 1:05
Win 16-1-0 Belgium Lenny Leikman[13] 3 1st Journée des Arts Martiaux
Win xv-i-0 Turkey Ajom Mahmud Uddin KO 1981 1 0:xix
Win 14-1-0 Algeria Mustapha-Ahmad Benamou KKO
Win 13-one-0 Netherlands Henk Besselman KO
Win 12-i-0 United Kingdom Michael J. Heming KKO 1980 0:46 European Karate Federation Middleweight Championship Kickboxing[ commendation needed ]
Win 11-1-0 France Georges Verlugels KO ii PKA Middleweight Championship Kickboxing[30]
Win 10-i-0 United States Sherman Bergman KKO 1979 Nov 4 1 0:56 Tampa, Florida, The states Full-Contact
Win 9-one-0 Germany Rolf Risberg KKO 1979 Ingelmunster, Belgium Kickboxing[ citation needed ]
Win viii-i-0 Belgium Emile Leibman Izegem, Kingdom of belgium Kickboxing[ citation needed ]
Win 7-1-0 Belgium Cyrille Nollet 1978 Kickboxing
Win 6-1-0 Belgium Orlando Lang KO 0:26 Antwerp, Kingdom of belgium
Win 5-1-0 Belgium Jacques Piniarski KKO Belgium Kickboxing[ citation needed ]
Win iv-1-0 Germany Eric "Basel" Strauss 0:eighteen Antwerp, Kingdom of belgium Kickboxing[ citation needed ]
Win 3-1-0 Belgium Andre "Robar" Robaeys Mulhouse, Kingdom of belgium Kickboxing[ citation needed ]
Win 2-ane-0 Belgium Michel Juvillier KO 0:39 Antwerp, Belgium Full-Contact[ citation needed ]
Loss 1-ane-0 France Etienne "Tuf" Aubry DQ seven March 1977 i:02 Marseilles, France Full-Contact (Karate magazine Boxe francaise)
Win ane-0-0 Belgium Toon van Oostrum KKO 1977 0:46 Brussels, Kingdom of belgium Full-Contact[ citation needed ]

Notes

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Books cited

  • Corcoran, John; Farkas, Emil (1988). Martial Arts: Traditions, History, People. New York City: Gallery Books. pp. lx, 265. ISBN978-0-8317-5805-nine. (Wako)
  • Corcoran, John; Farkas, Emil (1988). Martial Arts: Traditions, History, People. New York Metropolis: Gallery Books. pp. 285–286. ISBN978-0-8317-5805-9. (PKA World Heavyweight Championship)
  • Corcoran, John; Farkas, Emil (1988). Martial Arts: Traditions, History, People. New York Urban center: Gallery Books. pp. 210, 393. ISBN978-0-8317-5805-9. (Eku)
  • Soet, John Steven (March 1990). "Jean-Claude van Damme". Inside Kung-Fu Presents: Martial Artists Ane on One. pp. 16–25.
  • Zito, Chuck (2002), Street Justice, St. Martin's Press, ISBN9780312320218

Farther reading

  • Vandehey, Tim (April 1991). "Gunning for Van Damme". Karate Kung-Fu Illustrated.
  • Xuat Tinh Som (31 December 2007). "Jean-Claude van Damme". Tre Today News.

External links

  • Official website
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme at IMDb

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme

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