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			Arnold Schwarzenegger Growing up in a small, isolated village in Austria, he turned to bodybuilding. After conquering the world as arguably the greatest bodybuilder who ever lived, he went to America to make his name in motion pictures. Hampered by his impossible name and thick accent, success eluded him for many years. It wasn't until he found the tailor-made role of Conan that he truly came into his own as a performer. A succession of over-the-top action films (Commando, The Terminator) made him an international box office star. By alternating violent action films with lighter, comedic fare (True Lies, Last  Action Hero), he has solidified his position as one of the most popular - if not the most popular - movie stars in the world. After his long, and successful movie career, he ran in the California recall. He is now the Governor of California, yet another celebrity to be elected to the position. JCVD was involved in Predator, had a guestrole in Last Action Hero and Arnold Schwarzenegger was a guest on JC's birthday party on the set of Universal Soldier.
			Dolph Lundgren Highly intelligent and extremely well educated Dolph Lundgren is better known for his athletic achievements than his intellectual pursuits. An internationally recognized kick-boxing champion, the 6'6," 250-pound Lundgren was working as a doorman at a trendy New York disco when his personally produced exercise video Maximum Potential caught the eye of movie producers. His breakthrough film role was Drago, the automation-like Russian ring opponent of Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV (1985). However unlike other 80s action stars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lundgren's films mostly skipped theatrical releases and debuted on either cable or video. Nevertheless, he still managed to achieve similar success on the small screen.  Universal Soldier were Lundgrun was starring together with Jean Claude van Damme, is one of his biggest filmsuccess.
			Chuck Norris American action star Chuck Norris first learned martial arts while serving in the Air Force. From 1968 through 1974, he held the world's middleweight karate championship title. During this period, he made his film debut in The Wrecking Crew (1968) and his TV bow on a 1970 episode of Room 222. Thanks to the celebrity clientèle of his Los Angeles karate school, Norris was able to make the right contacts which enabled him to embark on a starring career in films. Building a box-office following with such fast-paced (and rapidly filmed) actioners as A Force of One (1979) and Lone Wolf McQuade (1982), Norris reached his professional apex as Colonel James Braddock in the three Missing in Action films of the 1980s. Around 1987, Norris' stardom went into eclipse, thanks in part to the heady competition in the action movies; though he still occasionally appears in films, most of his later efforts don't back their cost until they hit the video shelves. In "Missing in Action",  Jean Claude,  not visible in this movie, did some stunts.
			Sheldon Lettich, Director Sheldon Lettich was born in New York City, 14 January 1951, but moved to California at a young age and grew up in the Los Angeles area. After graduation from high school he spent nearly four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as a radio operator in South Vietnam. Although his initial career goal was to become a director of photography, his interests branched out to encompass writing and directing, which became the two fields where he found eventual success in the entertainment business. He wrote the screenplay for the now-classic martial arts film, Bloodsport (1988), which launched the career of JCVD. One of his Vietnam-based screenplays caught the eye of Sylvester Stallone, which resulted in an overall deal with Stallone's White Eagle Productions, and led to him co-writing Rambo III (1988) with Stallone. The success of Bloodsport not only turned Jean-Claude Van Damme into an international action star, but it also forged a long and ongoing friendship with the man who wrote it. Van Damme helped to launch Lettich's directing career with the film, Lionheart (1990) , which became Van Damme's first movie to be released theatrically by a major U.S. studio. This was followed by Double Impact (1991), which was filmed in Hong Kong, with Lettich directing Van Damme in a challenging double role as twin brothers seeking revenge for their parents' murder. He also directed Dolph Lundgren in The Last Patrol (2000). Continuing his long association with Van Damme, Lettich was a writer and a producer on the historical French Foreign Legion film, Legionnaire (1998), starring Van Damme and shot on location in Morocco. And he directed The Order (2001), an action-thriller starring JCVD, which was filmed on locations in Israel and Bulgaria. His most recent directorial effort is The Hard Corps (2006), an urban action-romance. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Vivica A. Fox, the film was shot on locations around Vancouver, Canada, and on sound stages in Romania, and was financed and released worldwide by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
			Dennis Rodman Instantly recognizable thanks to ever-changing brightly hued hair, multiple piercings, and flamboyant personal style, eccentric basketball superstar-cum-pro-wrestler-cum action film star Dennis Rodman has attempted to translate his remarkable on-court talents to numerous other venues, often with varying results. Born in Trenton, NJ, in 1961, Rodman's early prominence on the court with such teams as the Detroit Pistons led the justifiably cocky hoop master to fame with both the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers. As Rodman's frantic moves and wild behavior both on and off the court began to draw attention outside of the world of the NBA, Rodman began to branch out with a career in the WCW (World Championship Wrestling) in 1997. Taking his first starring film role in Double Team the same year, Rodman's cinematic turn didn't exactly spawn the celluloid career some may have anticipated, and its follow up (Simon Sez [1999]) made a brief bow in theaters before its hasty retreat to the home video market. A role in Cutaway followed in 2000, with Rodman once again donning his action film persona alongside veterans Tom Berringer and Stephen Baldwin. On the small screen, Rodman joined the cast of Soldier of Fortune, Inc. in 1997. Married to actress Carmen Electra in 1998, the couple remained an outwardly happy item until filing for divorce shortly after the new millennium. As a writer, Rodman's autobiography, As Bad as I Wanna Be, proved a popular read when published in 1996.
			Bolo Yeung Actor Bolo Yeung was a martial arts student of the legendary Bruce Lee.  The impressively built Asian actor with background in weightlifting, bodybuilding and martial arts who has carved a niche for himself as one of the great "bad guys"  with his unique massive appearance Yeung makes an especially imposing villain. He is appearing in over 50 movies to date !! Usually found menacing the hero, or enforcing the will of some vicious crime lord, Bolo Yeung has appeared alongside Lieh Lo, Bruce Lee , Jackie Chan and of course Jean-Claude Van Damme in films including Bloodsport and Double Impact. Although much of Bolo's work has been production line "chop socky" low budget martial arts films, he remained in high demand for over 25 years, right throught the early boom years of martial arts cinema in the 1970s, and on until the late 1990s. Undoubtedly, a principal onscreen figure in the history of martial arts cinema.
			Roland Emmerich, Director Film Director Roland Emmerich was born in Stuttgart, Germany, 1955. He attended film school in Munich from 1977 to 1981 and his student film, The Noah's Ark Principle, went on to open the 1984 Berlin Film Festival. Emmerich first American film was the 1992 action-adventure movie Universal Soldier with Jean-Claude van Damme. Emmerich hit his blockbuster stride with Independence Day. The alien invasion feature became the first film to gross $100 million in less than a week and went on to become one of the most successful films of all time. His next film Godzilla. After a change of pace directing the American Revolutionary War film The Patriot, Emmerich returned once again to directing a visual effects-laden adventure with 2004's The Day After Tomorrow.
			Peter Hyams, Director Peter Hyams was born in New York on July 26, 1943, and attended Hunter College Elementary School. He studied art and music at the Art Students League, and the high school of Music And Art, as well as at Syracuse University, where he majored in music and art. Even before he became a CBS-News anchor man in New York at the age of 21, Hyams had been a drummer with such important jazz musicians as Bill Evans and Maynard Fergusson and had played at Birdland, Small's Paradise and the Newport Jazz Festival. His paintings have hung in such prestigious galleries as the Whitney Museum of American Art. Hyams brings to film direction essential elements of music and painting. From music comes a special sensitivity to structure and rhythm; from painting a hightened sense of light and color. These important insights help Hyams to achieve his goal of creating films which "reach people's emotions, not their minds." Peter Hyams is six-foot-one-inch tall and lives in Brentwood California with his wife George-Ann. He has three sons, Chris, John, and Nick. Peter Hyams directed over 20 movies including one of JCVD's greatest movie Time Cop, but also Sudden Death. Also he did "End of Days" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
			Michel Qissi When he was 7 years old Michel Qissi began training in boxing. He soon met and befriended a young JCVD who was studying Shotokan Karate, and the two traded techniques in their systems. They grew up together and shared the same love of action films and dreamed of being action stars themselves one day. Qissi and Jean-Claude went to Hollywood together to look for a career in action movies. After obtaining an interview with Menahem Golan of Cannon Pictures they secured a three-picture deal, the first of which was the highly successful Bloodsport. In Cyborg (1989), Qissi worked as Van Damme's personal trainer but had no part in the cast. In the picture, Kickboxer (1989), Qissi was working as a choreographer when he overheard the production crew say they needed a tall oriental-looking guy who had a background in Muay Thai. Qissi had studied Muay Thai years before in Thailand so he volunteered and got the part of Tong Po. Michel Qissi was not credited; however, he was dubbed as Tong Po and even given a make-up job to make him look even more oriental. His final picture with Van Damme was Lionheart (1990), playing a legionnaire sent to bring Van Damme back to the army. Since then, he returned to his role of Tong Po in the sequel Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991). Qissi also did a few of his own flicks including Terminator Woman (1993) which he directed; he also had a relative Jeanette Agaronoff as the writer for this movie. Extreme Force (2001) was a movie directed by him along side Hector Echavarria as once again looking just like Tong Po but under the moniker Kong Li.
			John Woo, Director John Woo is one of a kind. The king of Hong Kong action cinema. From his films A Better Tommorow I and II, Hard Boiled, and The Killer, to his American films Hard Target, probably the most violent Van Damme movie, Broken Arrow, and his newest Face/Off, John Woo has redefined the way people look at gunbattles. Featuring two fisted gun blazing action, there is no other filmmaker who uses such a wide combination of zooms, pans, slow motion, and fast cuts to such a tremendous film. The best thing about John Woo is that his films have plots and points, something that most Hollywood films have forgotten. Woo cares about the plot and it shows in the tremendous characterization and development given to his characters. Working with some of the finest actors in the world, including the stunning Chow Yun-Fat, John Travolta, and Nicolas Cage, among others.  Woo has directed over 30 films, including comedy, drama, and action, as well as an American TV pilot version of one of his own films.
			Scott Adkins Born on the 17th June, 1976 in Sutton Coldfield, England, Scott began training in Martial Arts at the age of ten. It soon became clear that Scott had great potential and grew to become physically very adept. The combination of experience in Martial Arts while also being an outstanding gymnast allows Scott to perform stunts and moves normally only possible with the help of wires. All the while Scott's love for Martial Arts has been shared with acting and especially film. Scott began acting at the age of eighteen at college and won himself a place at the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art.  Scott's debut came when he was cast in Dei seung chui keung (2001) aka Extreme Challenge. This exposure to the Honk Kong film industry led to parts in The Medallion (2003) with Jackie Chan and Danny the Dog (2004) with Jet Li and the opportunity to work with many of Hong Kong's best filmakers. His first breakthrough lead performance came with Special Forces (2003) (V) under the direction of Isaac Florentine. With JCVD he made The Shepherd in 2007. Scott is not very famous on this moment but we are sure this is the action star of a new generation!
			Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue, born 28 May 1968, is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the mid '80s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before she commenced her career as a pop artist in the late '80s. According to Warner Music Australia, Minogue has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman, she achieved a string of hit records throughout the world. Her popularity began to decline during the early 1990s, leading her to part company from Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992. Minogue distanced herself from her earlier work and attempted to establish herself as an independent performer and songwriter. Her projects were widely publicised, but her albums failed to attract a substantial audience and resulted in the lowest sales of her career to date. She returned to popularity as a dance–pop artist in 2000, and became well-known for her provocative music videos and expensively mounted stage shows. Minogue has established one of the longest and most successful careers as a performer in contemporary pop music, and in Europe and Australia, she has become one of her generation's most recognisable celebrities and sex symbols. In Australia, after being dismissed early in her career by some critics, she has been acclaimed for her achievements. In 1994 Minogue starred in Street Fighter, together with JCVD but the film received poor reviews by critics.
			Natasha Henstridge Natasha, born on 15 August,1974 in Springfield, Newfoundland, Canada began her career modeling before being featured in TV commercials (e.g., spots for Lady Stetson and Oil of Olay). The voluptuous blonde made a striking feature film debut in 1995 as Sil, the otherworldly antagonist in the sci-fi thriller "Species." Henstridge , played a beautiful but deadly product of alien and human DNA who was intent on procreating in order to create a new race. She had two releases in 1996, though neither created as big an impression as had her debut. In the actioner "Maximum Risk," Henstridge portrayed the girlfriend of Jean-Claude Van Damme's dead twin. Later that year, in "Adrenaline: Fear the Rush," she co-starred with Christopher Lambert, as futuristic cops tracking a serial killer. Henstridge went on to co-star with Robert Sean Leonard in "StandOff" (1998), a drama inspired by recent FBI/militia stand-offs and played a clone of the alien in the inevitable sequel "Species II" (also 1998). Henstridge did enjoy a pivotal supporting role in "Bounce" (2000), She scored in a vulnerable role as mobster Bruce Willis' unhappy wife who finds love with neurotic dentist Matthew Perry in the hit comedy "The Whole Nine Yards" (2000); reprising the role for the 2004 sequel "The Whole Ten Yards." She also starreed in the sci-fi thriller, "Ghosts of Mars" (2001).
			Roger Moore Roger Moore was born in Stockwell, London, in 1927. He first wanted to be an artist, but got into films full time after becoming an extra in the late forties. He came to America in 1953. Suave, extremely handsome, and an excellent actor, he got a contract with MGM .  In 1962 he got his big breakthrough, at least internationally, as "The Saint" (1962), but perhaps Roger Moore will always be remembered as the guy who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series. Live and Let Die (1973), his first Bond movie, grossed more outside of America than Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Connery's last outing as James Bond. He went on to star in another six Bond films, before bowing out after A View to a Kill (1985) in 1985.  Despite his fame from the Bond films and many others, the US never completely took to him until he starred in The Cannonball Run (1981) alongside Burt Reynolds, a big hit there. He stars in several other films including The Quest with Jean-Claude Van Damme (1996). Although now his film work may have slowed down, he is still very much in the public eye, be it appearing on TV chat shows or hosting documentaries.