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Dolph Lundgren
Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish-American actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. He gained recognition for portraying the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in his breakthrough role in Rocky IV (1985), a role he reprised in Creed II (2018).
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Born 3 November 1957 · Q181678
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We trained six days a week—weights in the morning for about an hour, then boxing in the afternoon. We did a split of chest and back one day and then shoulders, legs, and arms the next. We boxed for an hour and a half, practiced the fight choreography, and did bag work and abs.
2026· 7 entries
“We trained six days a week—weights in the morning for about an hour, then boxing in the afternoon. We did a split of chest and back one day and then shoulders, legs, and arms the next. We boxed for an hour and a half, practiced the fight choreography, and did bag work and abs.”
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“My dad always told me that if I wanted to make something special with my life, I had to go to America.”
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PhillyVoice: Rocky IV actor Dolph Lundgren to talk about his career and new memoir at Temple
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Forbes: Dolph Lundgren Opens Up About His Kidney Cancer Journey
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The Guardian: ‘My hair extensions caught fire in a shootout!’ Dolph Lundgren on playing He-Man in Masters of the Universe
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al.com: ‘History’s Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren’ shows cutting-edge fighter jet tech during series debut
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Dolph Lundgren Admits He Feels 'a Little Guilty' for Breaking Sylvester Stallone's Ribs While Filming “Rocky IV”: 'He Was the Boss'
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Yahoo: Dolph Lundgren Shares Health Update After Cancer, Says He's Now 'a Little Kinder' to His Body (Exclusive)
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2023· 3 entries
Page Six: Dolph Lundgren, 65, marries Emma Krokdal, 27, in Greece amid cancer battle
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Hollywood Life: Dolph Lundgren, 65, & Emma Krokdal, 25, Confirm They’re Married: We’re Celebrating ‘Love, Life & Happiness’
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Said in an interview that he took anabolic steroids on and off from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s
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2022· 1 entry
Lundgren starred in a series of Old Spice advertisements (via deepfakes) to promote a new antiperspirant line of deodorant spray
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2021· 1 entry
Lundgren starred and directed in the 2021 action film Castle Falls as Richard Ericson, in his first feature film as directed in nearly 12 years
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Final Report” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,073 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs” in Physical Review X — cited 2,847 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Black Water, an action thriller, directed by Pasha Patriki was released
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2017· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Action star Dolph Lundgren has multiple scientific degrees.” Mostly True.
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Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
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Published “Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 2,990 times.
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded Time Machine Award (2016).
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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Published “GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence” in Physical Review Letters — cited 2,838 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “Advanced LIGO” in Classical and Quantum Gravity — cited 3,152 times.
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Published “THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DATA RELEASES OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FINAL DATA FROM SDSS-III” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 2,228 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Lundgren co-starred opposite Cung Le in the action film Puncture Wounds, and reprised his role as Gunner Jensen for the third time in The Expendables 3
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2013· 1 entry
Lundgren starred alongside Steve Austin in The Package
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2010· 2 entries
Lundgren made a guest star appearance on the TV series Chuck in the fourth-season premiere episode, "Chuck Versus the Anniversary", as Russian spy Marco, with references to Rocky IV's Ivan Drago
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With the role of Gunner Jensen in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables alongside an all-action star cast
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2009· 3 entries
In early May 2009, three masked burglars reportedly broke into Lundgren's Marbella home.
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The Dolph Lundgren Scholarship was instituted in his name, which is awarded to the student with the best grades at Ådalsskolan in Kramfors, the school where he himself studied
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Lundgren directed and starred as a businessman whose shady past as a KGB special agent is discovered in the hit-man thriller Icarus (retitled in the US and the UK as The Killing Machine)
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2008· 2 entries
Published “Small CRISPR RNAs Guide Antiviral Defense in Prokaryotes” in Science — cited 2,361 times.
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Lundgren starred in the direct-to-video action flick Direct Contact
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2007· 2 entries
Lundgren directed and starred in the Mongolia-based action adventure, Diamond Dogs
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Lundgren wrote, directed and starred in the modern western film, Missionary Man alongside Charles Solomon Jr
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2006· 1 entry
Lundgren played gladiator Brixos in the Italian-made historical/biblical drama, The Inquiry (L'inchiesta) a remake of a 1986 film by the same name, in an ensemble that includes Daniele Liotti, Mónica Cruz, Max von Sydow,
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2005· 1 entry
Lundgren starred and directed his second picture The Mechanik (a
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2004· 2 entries
Lundgren made his directorial debut with The Defender, when he replaced Sidney J
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Lundgren appeared opposite Polly Shannon in Direct Action under Sidney J
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2003· 1 entry
Lundgren featured in Sidney J
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2001· 1 entry
Lundgren starred in Hidden Agenda, directed by Marc S
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2000· 2 entries
Lundgren starred in The Last Warrior as Captain Nick Preston under director Sheldon Lettich
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But was eventually rejected because "as an actor, he just didn't fit in with what we were trying to achieve"
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1999· 1 entry
Lundgren played a mercenary in Isaac Florentine's Bridge of Dragons, a military pilot in Anthony Hickox's Storm Catcher, and a cop who's a former boxer in Jill Rips, also directed by Hickox, based on a 1987 novel by Scot
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1998· 2 entries
Appeared in Jean-Marc Piché's action/supernatural horror film The Minion alongside Françoise Robertson Lundgren portrays Lukas Sadorov, a middle eastern templar and member of an order who are charged with guarding the
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Lundgren appeared alongside Bruce Payne and Claire Stansfield in Sweepers as Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert and head of an elite team of specialists, trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian mines
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1997· 2 entries
Lundgren starred in Frédéric Forestier's The Peacekeeper, playing Major Frank Cross of the US Air Force and the only man who can prevent the president being assassinated and with the ability to thwart an imminent nuclear
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“If you heal yourself you can heal others.”
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1996· 2 entries
Lundgren starred in Russell Mulcahy's Silent Trigger, playing a former Special Forces agent who joins a secretive government agency as an assassin
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They have two daughters: Ida Sigrid Lundgren (b. 1996) and Greta Eveline Lundgren (b. 2001), both born in Stockholm.
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1995· 2 entries
Lundgren appeared in Ted Kotcheff's The Shooter, an action drama in which he plays Michael Dane, a U
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Lundgren appeared in Robert Longo's Johnny Mnemonic, co-starring Keanu Reeves
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1994· 2 entries
Lundgren starred in Bruce Malmuth's Pentathlon as an East German Olympic gold medalist pentathlete on the run from an abusive coach
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Lundgren appeared in Perry Lang's Men of War (scripted by John Sayles) alongside Charlotte Lewis and BD Wong, as Nick Gunar, a former Special Ops soldier who leads a group of mercenaries to a treasure island in the South
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1993· 1 entry
Lundgren starred opposite Kristian Alfonso and George Segal in Vic Armstrong's Joshua Tree
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1992· 1 entry
Lundgren starred in the sci-fi action picture Universal Soldier directed by Roland Emmerich
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1991· 1 entry
Lundgren starred in Manny Coto's action film Cover Up opposite Louis Gossett Jr
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1990· 1 entry
Lundgren starred in Craig R
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1989· 1 entry
Lundgren then starred as Marvel Comics adaptation The Punisher playing the title role
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1988· 1 entry
Starred in Joseph Zito's Red Scorpion
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1987· 1 entry
Lundgren released on home media a workout video called Maximum Potential, and he also got his first lead role as He-Man in Masters of the Universe, based on the popular children's toyline and cartoon, directed by Gary Go
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1982· 1 entry
Graduated with a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney
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1980· 1 entry
And 1981, and the Australian Kyokushinkai Full-Contact Karate Tournament in 1982
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-11-03.
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