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Second in Command as Cmdr.He purchased the luxurious mega mansion back in July 2013 for $6million. The Shepherd: Border Patrol as Jack Robideaux Universal Soldier: Regeneration as Luc Deveraux Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors ( 8 episodes) Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning as Luc Deveraux The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films as SelfĮlectric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Gibson Rickenbacker (archive footage) (uncredited) Jean-Claude Van Johnson ( 6 episodes) as Johnson Kadyrov, Ubu dictateur de Tchétchénie as Self (archive footage) Minions: The Rise of Gru as Jean Clawed (voice) With help from his family, he faced his problems and made movies like Replicant (2001), Derailed (2002), and In Hell (2003). In 1999, he remarried his ex-wife, Gladys Portugues, and restarted his lost career to attain new goals. The three films made less than $50 million combined. It began to show up in his career when his projects began to tank at the box office: The Quest (1996), which he directed Maximum Risk (1996) and Double Team (1997). A divorce, followed by a new marriage, followed by another divorce. But in the meantime, his personal life was coming apart.
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In 1994, he scored with his big breakthrough $100 million worldwide hit Timecop (1994). His good looks led to starring roles in higher budgeted movies like Cyborg (1989), AWOL: Absent Without Leave (1990), Double Impact (1991) and Universal Soldier (1992). It made about 30 million worldwide and audiences supported this film for its new sensational action star, Jean-Claude van Damme. They finally released the film, first in Malaysia and France and then into the US shot on a meager 1.5 million dollar budget, it became a US box-office hit in the spring of 1988. It might have never been released if van Damme did not help them to re-cut the film and begged producers to release it. The movie, filmed in Hong Kong, was so bad when it was completed, it was shelved for almost two years. Then one day, while walking on the streets, Jean-Claude spotted a producer for Cannon Pictures and showed some of his martial arts abilities which led to a role in Bloodsport (1988). In 1984, he got his first significant role as a villain named Ivan in the low-budget movie, No Retreat, No Surrender (1986).
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Norris gave van Damme a small role in the movie Missing in Action (1984), but it wasn't good enough to get anybody's attention. He took English classes while working as carpet layer, pizza delivery man, limo driver, and thanks to Chuck Norris he got a job as a bouncer at a club. He came to Hong Kong at the age of 19 for the first time and felt insured to do action movies in Hong Kong. Jean-Claude posted a 18-1 (18 knockouts) kickboxing record, and a semi-contact record of 41-4. Jean-Claude retired from martial arts in 1982, following a knockout over Nedjad Gharbi in Brussels, Belgium. In 1976 at the age of sixteen, Jean-Claude started his Martial Arts fight career. His goal was to be number one but got sidetracked when he left his hometown of Brussels.
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He won the European professional karate association's middleweight championship as a teenager, and also beat the 2nd best karate fighter in the world.
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Van Damme trained for 4 years and earned a spot on the Belgium Karate Team. At the age of 12, van Damme began his martial arts training at Centre National De Karate (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Master Claude Goetz in Ixelles, Belgium. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was physically weak. “The Muscles from Brussels” started martial arts at the age of eleven. Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène van Varenberg, an accountant.