Biography
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 championship of the European Professional Karate Association in 1979 and the Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title in 1978. With the desire of becoming an actor in Hollywood, he moved to the United States in 1982, 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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Awards & recognition
- Officer of the Order of the Crown
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst New Star · 1989 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Friends
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Conan
Kung Fu Panda 2
Las Vegas
Bloodsport
In Search of the Last Action Heroes
Kung Fu Panda 3
Kill Em All 2
We Die Young
Kickboxer
The UnXplained
JCVD
In Hell
Lionheart
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
Hard Target
Last Action Hero
Nowhere to Run
The Last Mercenary
The Expendables 2
6 Bullets
Assassination Games
Universal Soldier
No Retreat, No Surrender
The Bouncer
Inferno
The Quest
Double Impact
Death Warrant
The Gardener
The Shepherd: Border Patrol
The Hard Corps
Wake of Death
Sudden Death
Timecop
Until Death
Universal Soldier: The Return
Legionnaire
Missing in Action
Exam
Replicant
Maximum Risk
Kill 'Em All
Pound of Flesh
Cyborg
Black Water
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
Darkness of Man