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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 in karate, and compete in several karate and kickboxing competitions. As a teenager, he won the middleweight champio…
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entertainment · Belgian actor and martial artist (born 1960) · boxer · film producer · film actor · film director · screenwriter · film editor · kickboxer · karateka · scenographer · martial artist · also Jean-Claude Van Damme, JCVD, Muscles from Brussels, Jean Claude van Damme, Damme
Born 18 October 1960 · Q308840
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 4 entries
Page Six: Jean-Claude Van Damme slams ‘grotesque’ sex trafficking allegations after criminal complaint
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Yahoo: Jean-Claude Van Damme accused of having sex with victims of sex trafficking
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Vulture: Jean-Claude Van Damme Accused of Sleeping With Trafficked Women
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Yahoo: Jean-Claude Van Damme accused of having sex with 5 Romanian women he knew were trafficked
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2024· 10 entries
Bloody Elbow: How Jean-Claude Van Damme helped Rico Verhoeven discover his biggest passion outside of kickboxing
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FirstShowing.net: Jean-Claude Van Damme is Back in 'Kill 'Em All 2' Action Sequel Trailer
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collider: Jean-Claude Van Damme Is Back in Action in First 'Kill Em All 2' Trailer
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Published video “Darkness of Man Trailer”.
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Published video “JCVD signed fans memorabilia”.
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Published video “Radio Morning Wake Up with AQUAVD and Jean Claude Van Damme”.
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Published video “Happy International Women's Day 🌹”.
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Published video “Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon from JCVD™”.
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Published video “Street Fighter: Guile vs. Guile (JCVD)”.
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Debuted in Hitman: World of Assassination as the game's latest "elusive target"
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2023· 5 entries
Published video “Jean Claude Van Damme Dialogue with Omni-Man in Mortal Kombat 1”.
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Published video “Van Damme JCVD 360 World Tour”.
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Published video “Van Damme | Comic Con Brussels [P2]”.
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Published video “CCBX Lifetime Achievement Award”.
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Featured his likeness and voice as Johnny Cage in the fighting game Mortal Kombat 1 (2023)
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2022· 3 entries
Full Fact rated the claim “Jean-Claude Van Damme said when he converted to Islam he didn’t get any job offers but that wasn’t important and he doesn’t regret it.” There is no evidence he said this or has converted to Islam..
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Was appointed as Democratic Republic of the Congo Ambassador On Environment, with the role of enhancing the protection of forests as well as local fauna and flora
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Voiced the character Jean-Clawed in the computer animation film Minions: The Rise of Gru
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2020· 1 entry
Van Damme was inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Fame
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2019· 1 entry
A Van Damme monument was mounted in the Vandam village of Qabala, Azerbaijan, due to the similarity of the village name and Van Damme's name
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2018· 1 entry
Returned to his role in Kickboxer: Retaliation, a sequel to the reboot
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2017· 1 entry
Starred in Kill 'Em All, an action film directed by Peter Malota
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2016· 2 entries
Van Damme was named as the "World Boxing Council Muay Thai Ambassador" by the WBC
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Returned to his voice role of Master Croc in the Kung Fu Panda franchise for the third installment
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2015· 1 entry
Starred in the action thriller film Pound of Flesh, directed by Ernie Barbarash
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2013· 1 entry
Acted in the comedy Welcome to the Jungle
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2012· 2 entries
A statue of Van Damme was unveiled in Anderlecht, Belgium
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Acted in the Russian comedy film named Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon, and U
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2011· 4 entries
In 2011, he discussed the condition on the British reality show Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors, saying, "Sometimes you're gonna like me, and sometimes you're gonna hate me.
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Played a role in the French comedy Beur sur la ville
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Voiced Master Croc in the computer animation film Kung Fu Panda 2
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Discussed the condition on the British reality show Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors, saying, "Sometimes you're gonna like me, and sometimes you're gonna hate me
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2010· 1 entry
Directed himself in the barely released Full Love
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2008· 1 entry
Starred in Isaac Florentine's The Shepherd: Border Patrol
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2007· 1 entry
Played a small role in The Exam, a Turkish comedy-drama film directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak
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2006· 1 entry
Starred in Second in Command directed by Simon Fellows, and The Hard Corps directed by Sheldon Lettich
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2005· 1 entry
Played himself in the French film Narco
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2001· 1 entry
Replicant is the second collaboration between Van Damme and director Ringo Lam, and the fifth time that Van Damme has starred in a dual role
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1999· 1 entry
Starred in Universal Soldier: The Return, (1999), where he returns as Luc Deveraux
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1998· 1 entry
And Hark reunited on Knock Off, a box-office flop
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1997· 1 entry
Frank Dux, the martial artist whom Van Damme portrayed in Bloodsport, filed a lawsuit against him for $50,000 for co-writing and consultation work Dux did on the 1996 film The Quest
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1994· 1 entry
Starred in Hard Target for Universal Pictures, the first American film from director John Woo
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1993· 1 entry
Made a cameo in Last Action Hero, and starred in Nowhere To Run
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1992· 2 entries
By Ron Slinker, a promoter in Florida, possibly because of his martial arts experience and his resemblance to Van Damme
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Starred in one of the biggest blockbusters of the year in the sci-fi action picture, Universal Soldier, directed by Roland Emmerich for Carolco
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1990· 1 entry
Starred in Death Warrant, the first script credit for David S
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1988· 1 entry
Played another Russian villain in Black Eagle, opposite Sho Kosugi
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1982· 2 entries
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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And childhood friend Michel Qissi moved to the United States in the hope of working as actors
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1980· 1 entry
Caught the attention of Professional Karate Magazine publisher and editor Mike Anderson and multiple European champion Geert Lemmens
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1979· 2 entries
And catered to "karate, dancing, aerobics, bodybuilding – everything"
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Had an uncredited role in André Delvaux's Woman Between Wolf and Dog, a Belgian-French drama film starring Marie-Christine Barrault, and Rutger Hauer
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1977· 1 entry
When Claude Goetz promoted the first ever full-contact karate tournament in Belgium
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1960· 2 entries
Born 1960-10-18.
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“In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.”
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