Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (born 18 October 1960), professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme[a] and abbreviated as JCVD, is a Belgian actor, martial artist, screenwriter, film producer, and director best known for his martial arts action films. The most successful of these projects include Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer franchise (1989-2018), Lionheart (1990), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier franchise (1992-2012), Hard Target (1993), Street Fighter (1994), Timecop (1994), Sudden Death (1995), JCVD (2008), The Expendables 2 (2012), Kung Fu Panda 2, and 3 (2011-2015).
By the mid-1990s, the stress of the constant filming and promotion of his films, as Van Damme explains, led him to develop a cocaine habit, on which he spent up to $10,000 a week, and consuming up to 10 grams per day by 1996. He was arrested for driving under the influence in 1999. Attempts at drug rehabilitation were unsuccessful, and he resorted to resolve his addiction via quitting cold turkey and exercise. In 1998, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In 2011, he discussed the condition on the British reality show Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors, saying, "Sometimes you're gonna like me, and sometimes you're gonna hate me. But what can I do? I'm not perfect ... I'm an extreme bipolar, and I'm taking medication for this ... When I was young, I was suffering those swing moods. In the morning, the sky was blue [when I was] going to school, and to me, the sky was black. I was so sad."
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. From this marriage, they had a son named Nicholas (born October 10, 1995). 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 it in 2012. After leaving LaPier, Van Damme remarried bodybuilder Portugues in 1999.Van Damme is a Roman Catholic.
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Van Damme had been taking karate lessons since he was a child but as he grew, he turned to bodybuilding and ballet. As a teenager, he already established his own gym but this was far from what he wanted to do. Jean-Claude’s long time dream was to be a movie superstar and he set out to follow this path. He made his screen debut as an extra in Breakin’ (1984), learnt English on the side and also worked odd jobs which ranged from being a chauffeur, carpet layer and pizza delivery driver.
The Bloodsport (1988) actor has been through four divorces with four different women. He is an international star who has had several ups and downs in his private life and career. We were so interested in the famous Van Damme so we went and read up about him. Keep reading if you are interested in these juicy details we gathered
He was an accountant and flower salesman. As a child, Jean-Claude was an awkward child; he wore glasses, was nerdy and was even in the ballet. Eugene did not like the fact that his only son was weak so when he was 11, J-C was enrolled in martial arts. Van Damme soon became a sensation in this new art and eventually beat the 2nd best karate fighter in the world at the time. You can imagine how proud Papa Varenbergh was of his son’s strength and achievements.
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