Biography of Jean-Claude van Damme
Belgian by birth, militant star Jean-Claude van Damme clearly demonstrated his branded twine and acrobatic blows in films, such as the picture “Bloody sport”.
Early years and career
Jean-Claude Camille François van Warenberg was born on October 18, 1960 in the Belgian municipality of Berkeem-Saint-Agat in the Brussels capital region. Being a frail child, he at eleven years begins to engage in Setokan-karate, and also with pleasure is taken for weightlifting and ballet. Already a teenager, Van Damme wins the competitions organized by the European Professional Karate Association and wins the title “Mr. Belgium” in the bodybuilding competition.
In Brussels, Jean-Claude van Damme opens a sports hall, and also gets a job as a model, but his dream becomes the status of a star of movie screens. After short-lived attempts to get into the fast-growing Chinese film industry with martial arts in Hong Kong, in the early 1980s, he traveled to Los Angeles,
Big Screen Star
At first, having invented the pseudonym “Frank Cudjo”, Jean-Claude van Damme will perform episodic roles in feature films, as well as moonlighting as a taxi driver, waiter, aerobics instructor, bouncer in a nightclub – anyone, just to make a name for himself Tinseltown. In 1986, he will appear in the tape in the martial arts genre “Do not back down and do not give up.” However, his big breakthrough will take place after he shows his famous jump, a circular “helicopter strike”, producer of the second magnitude Meneyhemu Golan, who will take an unknown actor to the main role in the film “Bloody Sport”. Box office low-budget tape unexpectedly amount to 35 million US dollars, and the following year, Van Damme will play another successful role in the movie “Kickboxer.”
Over the next ten years, Van Damme will have time to star in such full-length action films as “Double Impact,” “Universal Soldier,” “Time Patrol,” “Sudden Death,”
In 2008, Van Damme appears again on the screen, acting as a fictional version of himself in the film half-dash, half-slander “Jean-Claude van Damme.” The role receives positive feedback and brings him echoes of past glory. Jean-Claude van Damme continues his journey, returning to the already familiar role in the film “Universal Soldier: Revival” and voicing the Master of the Crocus in the cartoon “Kugne-fu panda-2.” In 2012, Van Damme returns to his native country again, taking part in the filming of the murderous return of industry veterans Sylvester Stallone “The Expendables-2”.
Personal life
In the 1990’s, at the peak of his career, van Damme became addicted to drugs and sleeping pills, and in 1999 he was detained for driving under the influence of alcoholic intoxication. In addition, he is diagnosed with “bipolar affective disorder.” However, after the course of treatment, his condition improves and he leads his personal life in order.
Van Damme was married five times, he has three children. Two of them, Chris van Warenberg and Bianca Bree followed in the footsteps of their father and became actors.
In October 2012, in his native Brussels, the bronze monument to van Dammu is inaugurated. The statue depicts a former martial arts champion in a classic fighting posture, ready to just about one of his famous flying blows.
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