Van Damme
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, was born on 18 October 1960. At the age of 15,
Van Damme started his competitive karate career in Belgium. From 1976-1980, Van
Damme compiled a record of 44 victories and 4 defeats in tournament and
non-tournament semi-contact matches
Van Damme has been married five times to four different women. He was
married to his third wife, bodybuilder Gladys Portugues -
with whom he has two children: Kristopher(born 1987) and Bianca (born 1990) -
until 1992, when he began an affair with actress Darcy LaPier, whom he married in February 1994. That same year
he had an affair with his Street Fighter co-star Kylie Minogue during
filming of that movie in Thailand LaPier, who was pregnant at the time with
their son, did not become aware of this until Van Damme publicly admitted this
in 2012.
After leaving LaPier, Van Damme remarried bodybuilder Portugues
in 1999, and they later again separated. In early 2015, Portugues has filed for
a second divorce from Van Damme – citing irreconcilable differences. However,
in May 2015 they appeared to have reconciled and called off the divorce.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold
Schwarzenegger first gained fame as a body builder, using that as a launching
point to become a huge Hollywood star and, later, the governor of California.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, near Graz, Austria. He rose to fame
as the world's top bodybuilder, launching a career that would make him a giant
Hollywood star. After years of blockbuster movie roles, Schwarzenegger went
into politics, becoming governor of California in 2003.
In 2012, he returned to
his acting career, starring with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis and
Sylvester Stallone in the film The Expendables 2. Within just one week, the
movie had climbed to the No. 1 spot at the box office, bringing in nearly $28.6
million. His recent films include The Expendables 3 (2014) and Terminator
Genisys (2015).
Billy Blanks
Muscular
African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the
phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his
extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania in 1955
amongst humble backgrounds and grew up as one of 15 children, battling dyslexia
and tendon problems.
Blanks first
popped up on movie screens in the mid 1980s in tough guy parts utilizing his
athletic background and grim faced looks. Films roles included Tango & Cash
(1989), Driving Force (1989) and Lionheart (1990). Things looked up in 1991,
when Blanks scored the minor role of drug addicted running back "Billy
Cole" in the explosive The Last Boy Scout (1991)....and further work
followed often sharing lead billing in low budget - high action fare such as
Talons of the Eagle (1992), TC 2000 (1993) and Expect No Mercy (1995).
Jackie Chan
Actor/director/producer
Jackie Chan's unique blend of impressive martial arts and screwball physical
comedy has helped make him an international film star.
Jackie Chan
was born Chan Kong-sang on April 7, 1954, in Hong Kong, China. He began
studying martial arts, drama, acrobatics, and singing at age seven. Once
considered a likely successor of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong cinema, Chan instead
developed his own style of martial arts blended with screwball physical comedy.
He became a huge star throughout Asia and went on to have hits in the U.S. as
well.
Macaulay Culkin (Kelvin Home Alone)
Macaulay
Culkin is an actor known mostly for his childhood roles in such films as My
Girl and Home Alone.
Macaulay
Carson Culkin was born on August 26, 1980 in New York City. The third of seven
children, Macaulay Culkin was drawn to the limelight from a young age.
Personal
Life
Macaulay
Culkin married actress Rachel Miner in 1998 when he was 18. The couple
separated in 2000.
Culkin began
dating actress Mila Kunis in 2002. After quietly dating for more than eight
years, Kunis and Culkin split in 2011.
Sharukh Khan
Sharukh Khan
was born on 2 November 1965 in New Delhi, India. He married Gauri Khan on 25
October 1991. They have three children, son Aryan Khan (b. 1997), son AbRam
(b.2013) and daughter Suhana (b. 2000).
Khan has
come a long way since then with a string of hits under his belt which include
some of Bollywood's biggest in both national and international markets namely
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001) , Devdas (2002),
Swades (2004), Chakde! India (2007), Om Shanti Om (2007), My Name Is Khan
(2010), Ra.One (2011) , Don 2 (2011), Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)and the highest
grossing Chennai Express (2013)
Thus making him the undisputed megastar of
India with a record number of Best Actor trophies and numerous Power awards.
Sylvester Stallone
Born on July
6, 1946, in New York City, Sylvester Stallone rose to fame as the writer and
lead of the Academy Award-winning boxing film Rocky (1976).
He went on to
become one of the biggest action stars in the world, reprising his characters
from Rocky and First Blood (1982) for several sequels. Following a mid-career
decline, he rediscovered box-office success with a series of action films that
included The Expendables (2010) and has earned critical acclaim reprising his
Rocky role in Creed (2015)
In addition
to acting, Stallone had an interest in writing. He created a screenplay about a
rough-and-tumble thug who struggles for a chance to make it as a professional
boxer. According to several reports, Stallone refused to sell the script unless
he was allowed to star in it. Despite having a pregnant wife and little money
in the bank, he held out until he found two producers, Irwin Winkler and Robert
Chartoff, willing to let him play the lead.
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