Van Damme, Jean-Claude

Personal data:
NAME:	Jean Claude Van Damme
DATE OF BIRTH:	10/18/1960
PLACE OF BIRTH:	Brussels, Belgium

Career

Jean-Claude Van Damme was born and grew up in Brussels.
He started learning karate at the age of 11 and became a teenage middleweight champion of the European Professionals Karate Association.
He achieved black belt and also trained in ballet.
However, Jean-Claude had bigger goals and wanted to start his fortune in Hollywood. Unfortunately, when he arrived in the USA, things did not go as he had planned and so he first had to make ends meet with jobs such as carpet laying, bouncer or karate trainer.
One day he was lucky and the karate world champion Chuck Norris got him a small supporting role in his film.
His course was set and now he could finally do what he had come to the country for.
He made his breakthrough with the film "Bloodsport", which not only made him world famous but also his balancing act.
Action films are allowed to have history and a bit of depth, and so Jean Claude Van Damme gave the otherwise rather simple characters his personal touch with the film "Ohne Ausweg".
After that came his hit series of films, from "Sudden Death" to "Timecop" and "Harte Ziel" to "The Quest".
This last film was also his debut as a director.
All films became a success, which he intended to continue to expand with the following films "Double Team" and "Maximum Risk.
Unfortunately, his luck didn`t last through the new millennium and his films were released less and less in cinemas, instead always being released straight away on DVD.
Jean Claude Van Damme has an enormous talent for languages ??that fall under Flemish, German, French, Spanish and English.

Filmography

1984: Monaco Forever 1984: Rue Barbare 1984: Breakin` 1985: Karate Tiger - The Last Fight 1988: Red Eagle 1988: Bloodsport - A True Story (also editing) 1989: Cyborg (also editing) 1989: Karate Tiger 3 - The Kickboxer (also screenplay) 1990: Leon (also screenplay) 1990: With a Fist of Steel 1991: Kickboxer 2: The Champ Returns (screenplay only) 1991: Double Impact (also screenplay, producer) 1992: Universal Soldier 1993: No Way Out 1993: Last Action Hero 1993: Hard Targets 1994: Time Cop 1994: Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle 1995: Sudden Death 1996: The Quest (also screenplay, director) 1996: Maximum Risk 1997: Double team

1998: Knock Off 1998: The Legionnaire (also screenplay, producer) 1999: Universal Soldier: The Return (also Producer) 1999: Inferno (also Producer) 2001: Replicant 2001: The Order (also screenplay) 2002: Derailed - Terror on the train 2003: The Savage 2004: Bad Bad Things 2004: Wake of Death 2006: Second in Command 2006: Kumite (also screenplay, director) 2007: Til Death 2008: Asterix at the Olympic Games