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Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, on 18 October 1960, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, the son of Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, who was an accountant and florist. [5] [6] [7] His father is from Brussels and bilingual, and his mother is Flemish (Dutch-speaking). [8] Van Damme was brought up Roman ...
The name "Rob Van Dam" was given to him in 1992 by Ron Slinker, a promoter in Florida, possibly because of his martial arts experience and his resemblance to actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. [272] During the early years of his career, he used a "Moonsault Split" as finisher, until he adopted the Frog Splash (named Five Star Frog Splash) as finisher ...
Qissi had the role of a fight trainer for Van Damme in the sci-fi film Cyborg (1989). [17] 1990 saw Qissi and Van Damme make the film Lionheart, in which Qissi's brother, Abdel, played the villain. This was to be the last film Van Damme and Qissi made together for 26 years. They briefly appeared together in Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016).
The film tells the story of Luc Deveraux, portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme, a former U.S. Army soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, and returned to life following a secret military project called the "Universal Soldier" program.
Through his brother Michel, Qissi later became an associate of Jean-Claude Van Damme to which he starred in some of Van Damme's movies. [2] [3] He was a candidate in the commune of Ixelles for the 2006 Belgian local elections on the right-wing Mouvement Réformateur (MR) but was not elected, receiving 322 preferential votes. [4] [5]
According to Van Damme, Golan, who died in 2014, never planned much of a theatrical push. “The movie was released only on a few screens in Los Angeles,” Van Damme says. “And we did $9,000 ...
Jean-Claude Van Damme shares memories from the making of the film "Double Impact," in which he played twin brothers, as it turns 30.
In 1987, at the age of thirty, Portugues married Belgian martial artist and actor Jean-Claude van Varenberg. [1] The couple divorced in 1992, then remarried in 1999. They have two children: Kristopher van Varenberg (b. 1987) and Bianca Brigitte (b. 1990). [2] Her husband is professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme.