Jean-claude Camille Francois Van Warenberg

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a Belgian bodybuilder, actor and stunt performer. The creative biography of the star has about fifty roles. Numerous action films brought him popularity. In addition, Jean-Claude owns five martial arts, and also tried his hand at the role of screenwriter, director, producer, editor and director of action scenes in dozens of films.

At birth, the name of the future actor was even longer: Jean-Claude Camille François Van Warenberg. He was born on October 18, 1960 in one of 19 communes called Berkem-Saint-Agat, which is part of the Brussels-Capital Region, in the family of an accountant and a housewife. My father was engaged not only in debiting and credit, but also owned his own flower shop. The mother ran the household and raised her only son. Probably, in early childhood, the mother paid much more attention to the child than the father, since little Jean-Claude grew up a effeminate, frail and tearful boy, although now it is difficult to believe it.

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Tall for his age and slender, the child wore glasses with thick lenses, was stooped despite classical choreography, and sickly. When the boy was 10 years old, his father took Jean-Claude to the karate section to instill in his son a love for sports and show a healthy spirit of competition. He fell in love with martial arts immediately. Under the guidance of the trainer Claude Goetz, the young man mastered not only the technical skills of karate, but also psychological training, auto-training and tactical features of hand-to-hand combat.

A serious attitude to training has borne fruit. Jean-Claude sat down on a twine, straightened his posture, gained weight: with a height of 177 cm, the weight of the young man was 85 kg. After 8 years of training, the future sports and movie star passed the black belt exam, and after another 2 years he won the European Championship among professionals, knocking out an opponent in the 1st round. The full statistics of Van Damme's professional fights is as follows: 22 fights, 20 wins, 13 of which were knockouts, and 2 technical defeats.

Interestingly, Van Damme owns not only karate, but also four other areas of martial arts: the American version of kickboxing, Thai boxing, called Muay Thai, the Chinese martial art of kung fu and Korean martial taekwondo.

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Despite the fact that even in his early youth, Jean-Claude opened his own sports club called "California", in which he taught karate, aerobics and bodybuilding, he was irresistibly attracted to the world of cinema. Therefore, forgetting about a promising business that has brought the bodybuilder a fairly stable financial position, he takes risks.

A young man sells a gym, sneaks into a film festival with a fake subscription, and gets useful contacts from the world of cinema. After that, he goes to conquer the United States of America.

At first, the circumstances were against the future actor. The preliminary agreements with actress Jacqueline Bisset turned out to be empty promises, and Van Damme had to literally punch his way to the cinematic Olympus. For 4 years, the young man unsuccessfully phoned the film studios, offering his candidacy to participate in the filming.

As the actor later recalled in an interview, he looked for expensive cars in the parking lots in front of film studios and attached his photos with a phone to their windows. At the same time, Van Damme moonlighted as a chauffeur, a fighter in the shadow underground rings and even a bouncer at Chuck Norris's club.

The film debut took place in 1986 in the film "Do not retreat and do not give up", where the actor plays the Russian fighter Ivan Krashinsky. Then the pseudonym Van Damme, which later became famous, was first heard. Jean-Claude had to change his real name to Van Warenberg, as it was difficult for English-speaking people to pronounce it.

Success came to the actor after the famous film "Bloodsport", which allowed the production center to recoup the cost of filming 30 times. The fans of the young performer were especially impressed by his signature roundhouse kicks, acrobatic turntables and a soft accent that gave the blue-eyed brunette a special charm. One of the striking works of the Belgian of this period was the main role in the debut film of the Asian director John Woo "Hard Target".

Subsequent films such as "Kickboxer", "AWOL", "Double Strike", "Universal Soldier", "Nowhere to Run", only reinforced the artist's popularity. His fees were calculated in multimillion-dollar payments, and the name fell on a par with the names of the stars who were at the zenith of fame at that time - Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The actor's popularity reached its peak: Van Damme became the prototype of the character in the computer game "Mortal Kombat", and the guys all over the world ran to enroll in the karate section. Despite this, the most striking moment from the galaxy of action films was a fragment of the film "Kickboxer", in which Jean-Claude does not fight, but performs a dance.

It is curious that since the actor could not completely get rid of the French accent, often the characters of Van Damme have just French names and roots - Luc Devereaux, Chris Dubois, Chance Boudreau, Lyon Gaultier, Alain Lefebvre, Philippe Savage, Jean Vilaine.

In 1992, 1993 and 1994, Van Damme was nominated for the MTV Movie Awards in the category "Most Desirable Man".

In the mid and late 90s, the demand for Jean-Claude Van Damme declines due to the fall in popularity for action movies based on martial arts. Movies such as "Legionnaire" and "Colony", where Mickey Rourke played along with the Belgian, did not bring him much success, despite the good scripts and the improved acting of the actor.

Van Damme owes his triumphant return to the film J. KVD ”, which was released in 2008. The artist's performance impressed audiences and critics so much that by Time the image of the Belgian recreated on the screen was named the second most successful after Joker Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. In the wake of the new popularity, the actor starred in a whole series of sequels: "Universal Soldier - 3: Rebirth", "Universal Soldier - 4", "The Expendables-2" and other films.

In 2012 Jean-Claude Van Damme appeared in the Russian film Rzhevsky vs. Napoleon. In the Russian comedy, the Belgian got a small role, almost a cameo. Van Damme played a foreign guest. The artist experiments with forms, so a year later he has a job in an advertising campaign for Volvo. He was captured in a video showing the "most epic splits" between two moving trucks. The clip has collected over 86 million views on YouTube.

Then the actor returned to the usual genre of action and played the main roles in the films "Six Bullets", "Close enemies" and "Pound of Flesh". In 2014, Van Damme appeared in the action-comedy Welcome to the Jungle. In January 2016, a cartoon about martial arts "Kung Fu Panda - 3" was released, in which Van Damme voiced Master Kroc.

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On September 2, 2016, the premiere of the film "Kickboxer", the reboot of the 1989 action movie of the same name, took place. In the original film, Van Damme played the role of the young fighter Kurt Sloan, and in the remake, this role went to Alain Mussi. Jean-Claude played the role of Sloan's mentor, Master Durand. In 2017, shooting began for the release of the sequel "Kickboxer Returns". Boxer Mike Tyson joined the cast of the film. The film premiered in early 2018.

Also in 2017, films with Van Damme's participation "Finish Them All" and "The Antwerp Robbery" were released. The screen star starred in the comedy series Jean-Claude Van Johnson, where he played an action movie actor who becomes an undercover agent in adulthood.

Now at the stage of searching for a distributor, the action-drama "Full of Love" remains. The main role in the film was played by Jean-Claude. The actor also acted as a director, producer, screenwriter and editor. The finished video was shown in Cannes back in 2010 and re-shown at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2014. The further fate of the painting has not yet been determined.

Family relations of Jean-Claude Van Damme, like many public people, are very scandalous and stormy. The actor entered into official marriages 5 times, and twice with the same woman.

For the first time, Jean-Claude was combined with the sacrament of marriage at the age of 18, and the wealthy girl Maria Rodriguez, who was 7 years older than her husband, became Van Damme's wife. The couple divorced when the future actor went to conquer America.

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However, there Jean-Claude did not go bachelors for long and married Cynthia Derderian, the daughter of the owner of a construction company, in which Van Damme worked as a chauffeur. The second marriage lasted for several months and collapsed due to the popularity that soon came to the actor.

At a party with Chuck Norris, Van Damme meets bodybuilding champion Gladys Portuguese. The athlete becomes the third wife of the actor, the mother of the common son Christopher and daughter Bianca, and also, as her later life will show, the main woman in the life of a star. But at that time, the marriage lasted for several years. Gladys left her husband because of Jean-Claude's romance with the "beauty queen" Darcy Lapierre. Interestingly, during the divorce, the ex-wife did not require any financial obligations from Van Damme, which is very unusual for Hollywood families.

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The actor married for the fourth time just to Lapierre, who gave Van Damme a son, Nicholas. This time, the divorce happened due to the fall of the actor's career and the associated spree, alcohol and drugs.

For the fifth and last time, Jean-Claude again married the mother of his children, Gladys Portugues, who supported her ex-husband in a difficult situation. The couple got married in the actor's homeland, in a church near Brussels. After that, Van Damme has repeatedly stated that Gladys is the only and beloved woman.

In 2009, the actor's personal life changed again. The star has a new passion - in Thailand, Jean-Claude met with a native of Ukraine Alena Kaverina. The girl worked as a dancer in a local nightclub and managed to charm the artist. The relationship lasted 6 years, while Van Damme was in no hurry to officially part with Gladys, whom he continued to indulge in chic gifts, such as the purchase of a three-story mansion on the seaside.

With Alena, the Belgian traveled a lot around the world. On trips, the girl presented herself as the actor's translator, but in her social networks Kaverina allowed herself to show joint photos with the screen star, which looked ambiguous. In 2016, an affair with a Ukrainian woman came to an end.

In 2018, with the participation of the star, the premiere of the action movie "Black Water" started, in which for the fifth time Van Damme played in a duet with Dolph Lundgren. In the film, the heroes of the artists performed in an alliance. Another work of the actor is the main character in the French thriller "Lucas". The hero of the Belgian works as a security guard, brings up an 8-year-old daughter. After a fight, he goes to jail, and the girl goes to an orphanage. To get free and take his daughter, Van Damme's character makes a deal and becomes an undercover agent.

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In March 2019, another thriller by Jean-Claude "We Die Young" was released. The artist informed the fans about the premiere of the film from his personal page on Instagram.

1988 - "Bloodsport" 1991 - "Double Strike" 1992 - "Universal Soldier" 1993 - "Hard Target" 1997 - "Colony" 1998 - "Legionnaire" 2001 - "Mystery of the Order" 2008 - "J. K. V. D. " 2012 - Rzhevsky vs. Napoleon 2014 - Welcome to the Jungle 2016-2017 - Jean-Claude Van Johnson 2018 - Kickboxer Returns 2018 - Black Waters 2018 - Lucas

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