EDUARDO DÍAZ RAMÍREZ

JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME

Jean Claude Van Damme was born in Belgium, in 1960. When he was a kid, he was very weak, so his parents send him to a gym. In the gym, he began to practice kickboxing, muay thai and taekwondo, and he was a professional fighter in Belgium. His real name is Jean Claude Camille François Van Varenberg. He always wanted to be an actor, so he went to USA without ID and without knowledge in English language.

His first important role was in the film Bloody Contact, in 1988. The most importants films of Van Damme are: Kickboxer (1989), Lionheart (1990), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), Timecop (1994), Sudden Death (1995), JCVD (2008) and The Expendables 2 (2012).

He won eighteen kickboxing matches by KO and he lost only a match by disqualification. He also was black belt of karate and taekwondo.

When he was in the top of his career, he began to consume drugs, and he had five wives. But soon he had a relapse and he walked away from the drugs. Actually, he is 54 years old.