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Bruce Lee

Player | Meng long guo jiang

Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts movie theatre and a key figure of modernistic popular media. Had it not been for Bruce Lee and his movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would accept ever penetrated and influenced mainstream N American and ...


Wing Chun (Hong Kong Boxing Champion; 2-time Long Embankment International Karate Champion; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry), Jeet Kune Do (founder)

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Chuck Norris

Player | Walker, Texas Ranger

Chuck Norris is familiar to fans worldwide every bit the star of action films such as The Hitman (1991), The Delta Force (1986) and Delta Force two: The Colombian Connection (1990). He likewise starred in Missing in Action (1984) and its sequels, Firewalker (1986) and Sidekicks (1992). He was an executive ...

Tang Soo Do (9th Dan; 7-fourth dimension World Karate Champion; record: 183-10-2; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry), Chun Kuk Do (10th degree black chugalug) (founder), Tae Kwon Do (eighth degree blackness belt), Karate (5th degree black chugalug), Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (3rd degree black belt), Judo (blackness belt), Mixed Martial Arts Main

Ane of only 8 Americans to accomplish an eighth degree black belt or higher in Tang Soo Do

Steven Seagal

Actor | On Deadly Ground

Steven Frederic Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Patricia Anne (Fisher), a medical technician, and Samuel Seagal, a high schoolhouse math instructor. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother had English, German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. The enigmatic ...

Aikido (7th Dan; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry), Kenjutsu, Karate, Judo, Shotokan Karate Was the first American to operate a dojo in Nihon

Jet Li

Actor | Huo Yuan Jia

Jet Li born Li Lian Jie in Beijing, China. He started training at the Beijing wushu university (wushu is China's national sport, largely a performance version of various martial art styles) at age eight. He won v gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was but 11. In his teens,...

Wushu (Chinese National Champion; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry), Li is a master of several styles of wushu, Changquan (Northern Longfist Style), Fanziquan (Tumbling fist), Baguazhang (8 trigram palm), Taijiquan (Supreme ultimate fist), Xingyiquan (Shape intent fist), Zuiquan (Drunken fist), Yingzhaoquan (Eagle hook fist), Tanglangquan (Praying mantis fist), Sanjiegun (Iii section staff), Gun, Dao (Broadsword), Jian (Straight sword), Tai Chi.

Donnie Yen

Actor | Ip Homo

Donnie Yen was born in Guangzhou, Red china. His female parent, Bow-sim Mark, was a kung fu master and his father, Kylster Yen, a paper editor and amateur musician. When Donnie was just two years sometime, the family moved to Hong Kong and so, when he was 11, to Boston, Massachusetts.

There, Master Bow-sim ...

Wushu (Gold Medals in Wushu Competitions), Tae Kwon Do (sixth Caste Blackness Belt), Judo (Black Belt), Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (Purple Belt), Tai Chi (Black Belt Hall of Fame entry) Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Battle, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Wing Chun, Mixed Martial Arts, Parkour.

Jackie Chan

Actor | Ngo si seoi

Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and all-time known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, difficult work and multiple injuries to constitute international success after his start in Hong Kong's manic martial arts picture palace manufacture.

Jackie was born Kong-sang Chan on Apr vii, 1954, on Hong Kong'south famous ...

Karate, Hapkido, Judo , Tae Kwon Exercise (Black Belt Hall of Fame entry)

Michael Jai White

Actor | Black Dynamite

Michael Jai White is an American histrion and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television serial. He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major movement picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 picture show Spawn. White ...

Kyokushin, Goju-Ryu & Shotokan Karate (3rd Dan), Kobudo, Tang Soo Practice, Tae Kwon Do, Wushu (black belts in all styles; 26 titles including Us Open and Due north American Open), Jujutsu

Scott Adkins

Actor | Boyka: Undisputed Four

Scott Edward Adkins was built-in on June 17, 1976 in Sutton Coldfield, England, into a family unit that for generations were butchers. Along with his elder blood brother Craig, he was raised by their parents, John and Janet (Sanders) Adkins, in a loving middle-class family unit. Scott attended Bishop Vesey's Grammar ...

Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Jujitsu (blackness belts in all styles), Kickboxing, Wushu, Krav Maga, Ninjutsu, Karate, Capoeira, Jeet Kune Do, Gymnastics.

Tony Jaa

Histrion | Ong-bak 3

Japanom Yeerum was born on February v, 1976, in the northeastern province of Surin, Thailand. His parents were elephant herders. Jaa watched martial arts films as a immature kid and began to emulate some of his idols, from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan to Jet Li. Jaa studied martial arts at the local ...

Muay Boran, Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Exercise, Aikido, Judo, Wushu, Kung Fu Styles (krabi krabong, lethwei and kino mutai)

Iko Uwais

Actor | Serbuan maut 2: Berandal

Iko Uwais was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Maisyaroh and Mustapha Kamaluddin. His granddad, H. Achmad Bunawar, was a master of silat, an Indonesian traditional martial fine art, and founded a silat school. Iko himself has been learning silat since he was ten years old. He became National Champion in...

Pencak Silat (Indonesian National Demonstration Champion)

Dolph Lundgren

Actor | Rocky Iv

Dolph Lundgren was born equally Hans Lundgren in Stockholm, Sweden, to Sigrid Birgitta (Tjerneld), a language teacher, and Karl Johan Hugo Lundgren, an engineer and economist for the Swedish government. He lived in Stockholm until the age of 13, when he moved in with his grandparents in Nyland, ...

Kyokushin & Goju-Ryu Karate (3rd Dan Blackness Belt; captain of Swedish Karate Squad; 5-time Swedish/British/Australian Open up Champion, European champion in 1980 and 1981), Tae Kwon Do, Judo

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Actor | Double Impact

Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of xi. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...

Shotokan Karate (second degree black belt), Kickboxing (European PKA Middleweight Champion; member of Belgium National Squad; record: 18-ane), Tae Kwon Do, Muay Thai, Full-contact karate

Gary Daniels

Actor | The Expendables

Gary Edward Daniels (born 9 May 1963) is an English actor, a martial arts artist, a martial arts action motion picture star, a producer, and a fight coordinator. . Daniels who was besides interested in films, starred in two motion pictures in 1988 made in the Philippines. These were Teddy Page's action martial ...

Kickboxing (WKBA Champion & PKA Low-cal Heavyweight Champion; tape: 22-4), Tae Kwon Do (2nd degree black chugalug), Sillum Wong Gar Kune, Muay Thai, Karate, Aikido, Judo, Kung Fu, boxing, ninjitsu, and Northern Shaolin kung fu

Was disqualified iii times from Tae Kwon Do tournaments in England for knocking out his opponents In his first United states of america match, Daniels defeated Sherman "Big Railroad train" Bergman (The simply kickboxer to have knocked down Jean-Claude Van Damme)

Don Wilson

Histrion | Batman Forever

Don "The Dragon" Wilson is considered the greatest kick-boxing champion in the sport's history. A native of South Florida, Wilson began fighting in the late 1970s. In a career which spanned iv decades, he won 11 earth kick-battle championships, amongst them the WKA, STAR, WKC, PKO Lightheavyweight ...

Kickboxing (5th degree blackness belt), (eleven-time World Kickboxing Champion, iii-time WKO Champion; WKA, STAR, WKC, PKO, Kicking, IKF, ISKA, & FCR World Light Heavyweight Champion; tape: 72-v-2; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry), Pai Lum Tao, Goju-Ryu Karate, Kung Fu, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Battle.

Mark Dacascos

Thespian | Le pacte des loups

Mark Dacascos is an actor, director, martial artist, and television personality. Whether seen on the big screen or small, playing the expert guy or the bad, Mark has been making audition stand up upward and take detect for many years.

This May, Mark will be seen in highly anticipated film John Wick: Chapter ...

Wun Hop Kuen (2-time Long Beach International Champion), Chin Na, Shui Jao, Capoeira, Karate (2-time Hamburg Champion), Kung Fu ( Italian & European Kung Fu)

Wesley Snipes

Actor | Blade

Wesley Trent Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, to Marian (Long), a teacher's assistant, and SMSGT Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up on the streets of the South Bronx in New York Metropolis, where he very early on decided that dance and the theatre were to be his career. He attended ...

Shotokan Karate (5th Dan), Hapkido (2nd Dan), Capoeira, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, kung fu, Kickboxing

Lorenzo Lamas

Actor | Grease

Lorenzo Fernando Lamas was built-in in Santa Monica, California, the son of actors Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas. His male parent was Argentinian and his female parent was American, of Norwegian descent. Lorenzo was raised in Pacific Palisades, California. In 1968, his family unit moved to New York. He attended ...

Tae Kwon Practice (3rd Dan), Karate, Kenpo, Jujitsu (black belts in all styles)

Darren Shahlavi

Histrion | I Spy

Darren Shahlavi was seven years old when he started training in martial arts in an erstwhile drama theatre in Manchester, England. Inspired past Bruce Lees films and other action movies such as Star Wars, he dreamed of being a movie actor and would show upwardly to his Judo class at the drama hall early to watch...

Judo, Karate, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Shotokan Karate, boxing,

Cung Le

Actor | Pandorum

Cung Le made his get-go appearance on the professional One thousand.M.A. stage in 2006, and shortly after won the Strikeforce Middleweight Title in 2008, setting loftier standards through his powerful kicks, skillful strikes, and well-timed take-downs. This U.S.-Viet Namese champion, player, producer and ...

Sanshou Kickboxer (Black sash), (7-time Us Open International & National Champion; record: 17-0), Kickboxing (IKF Champion; record: 22-0), Mixed Martial Arts (Strikeforce Middleweight Champion; tape: seven-ane), Wushu (onetime captain of US National Team), Tae Kwon Do (Showtime degree black chugalug), Brazilian jiu-jitsu (Blue belt), Wrestling, Judo, Kuntao, Sambo

Brandon Lee

Thespian | The Crow

Born on February 1, 1965 to Bruce Lee (Martial Arts idol) and Linda Lee Cadwell. Blood brother to Shannon Lee. In 1970-71, they moved to Hong Kong where Brandon became fluent in Cantonese by the historic period of eight. He attended Boston's Art-Oriented Emerson College in Massachusetts. He studied Martial Arts and ...

Kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do, Yee Chuen Tao (Black Belt Hall of Fame entry)

Randy Couture

Histrion | Big Stan

Randy Couture is a collegiate wrestler and fighter turned actor from Everett, Washington. He served equally a 4 time U.s. Olympic wrestling squad alternate every bit a soldier in the U.Due south. Regular army, and is also a half-dozen time earth heavyweight and light heavyweight UFC champion and Hall of Famer. He is a graduate of ...

Mixed Martial Arts (vi-fourth dimension UFC Champion; tape: xix-11) (3-fourth dimension UFC Heavyweight Champion, two-time UFC Light Heavyweight Champion), Boxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling (Black chugalug), Greco-Roman Wrestling

A three-fourth dimension alternating for the American Olympic wrestling team United States Army Rank: Sergeant

Jason Statham

Actor | Crank

Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge vocaliser. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, blackness market salesman ...

Mixed Martial Arts, Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Rati Tsiteladze

Thespian | Picayune Things

Rati Tsiteladze was born in post-Soviet Georgia. He studied acting and filmmaking at the Hybrid Conservatory, Los Angeles. He is an alumnus of Locarno Academy, TIFF Filmmaker Lab, HFPA Film Independent and Berlinale Talent Project Market.

At age 21, he won the title of World Champion in martial arts...


Kickboxing (World Champion-2008 under Thou-1 rules), Kyokushinkai Karate (1st dan black belt) (Caucasus Champion-2008 in Super Heavyweight categor), Neko-Ryu Karate (1st dan black chugalug), Kung-Fu (National Champion of Georgia under Kung-Fu Sanda rules in Super Heavyweight category), Goju-Ryu Karate, ck]Full contact Karateck], Shidokan, K-1 , Kyokushin/Shinkyokushin karate (European Champion 2009)

Ronda Rousey

Actress | Fast & Furious seven

Ronda Rousey burst onto the women's MMA scene in Baronial of 2010. Born in Riverside Canton, California on February 1, 1987 to parents Ron Rousey and AnnMaria DeMars, little Ronda was born with an umbilical cord wrapped around her cervix that damaged her song cords. She didn't speak coherently until ...

4th dan black belt in Judo (Kickoff U.S. woman to earn an Olympic medal in Judo at the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008), boxing, Mixed martial arts (She is the first and current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion)

Danny Trejo

Actor | Machete

Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a structure worker. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for eleven years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for ...

boxer (The Lightweight and Welterweight Boxing Champion)

Michael Dudikoff

Role player | Platoon Leader

Michael Dudikoff was born on October 8, 1954 in Redondo Beach, California, United states. He is an player and assistant director, known for Platoon Leader (1988), American Ninja (1985) and Bachelor Party (1984). He has been married to Belle since September 18, 2004. They take three children.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Lateef Crowder

Actor | Tekken

Lateef Crowder was born on November 23, 1977 in San Jose, California, USA. He is known for Tekken (2010), Wonder Woman (2017) and The Mandalorian (2019). He was previously married to Andressa Vallotti.

Capoeira, Martial arts

Michael Clarke Duncan

Actor | The Green Mile

Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December x, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised by his single female parent, Jean, a firm cleaner, on Chicago's Due south Side, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. He wanted to play football in high school, only his mother wouldn't let ...

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

David Carradine

Player | Impale Bill: Vol. 2

David Carradine was born in Hollywood, California, the eldest son of legendary graphic symbol actor John Carradine, and his wife, Ardanelle Abigail (McCool). He was a member of an acting family that included brothers Keith Carradine and Robert Carradine besides as his daughters Calista Carradine and ...

Northern Shaolin & Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Law Horn Kuen, Ling Po, Tai Chi, Qi Gong

Katheryn Winnick

Extra | Vikings

Canadian actress, manager and producer Katheryn Winnick starred in the critically acclaimed, Emmy accolade-winning television series Vikings, produced by MGM and The History Channel. In addition to her lead office on Vikings, an episode directed past Winnick debuted in 2020. Entertainment Weekly declared...

Tae Kwon Do (3rd Dan), Karate (2nd Dan) (black belt at Age thirteen)

Mickey Rourke

Role player | Sin City

Mickey Rourke was built-in Phillip Andre Rourke, Jr. on September 16, 1952, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Annette (Cameron) and Phillip Andre Rourke. His male parent was of Irish and German descent, and his female parent was of French-Canadian, English language, and German language ancestry. When he was six years former, his ...

Boxer, Mixed martial Arts.

Bryan Genesse

Player | Bad Guys

Bryan Genesse was born on March 20, 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Bad Guys (2000), Street Justice (1991) and The Alternate (2000). He has been married to Brooke Theiss since June eighteen, 1994. They have two children.

Hung Gar, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai

Robin Shou

Actor | Mortal Kombat: Anything

Robin Shou is the fourth kid of a Shanghai tailor and homemaker. His family moved to the US in 1971. Their get-go home in Los Angeles was a 2 sleeping room apartment near Olympic and Vermont, today known as Koreatown.

Shou didn't start attending martial arts classes until he was 19. He took Kenpo (Karate...

Wushu (International Forms Champion; former fellow member and Gilded & Silver medalist of Chinese National team; 4-time Traditional Forms Grand Champion), Kenpo

Eric Roberts

Player | Delinquent Train

Roberts is an University Accolade nominee for his role in Delinquent Train, and a 3-time Golden Globe nominee for Delinquent Train, Star fourscore, and Male monarch of the Gypsies.

In addition, Roberts received acclamation at the Sundance Film Festival for his role in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and It's My Party. He ...

Tae Kwon Practise (1st Dan)

Gina Carano

Actress | The Mandalorian

From pioneering women'southward MMA to blazing a trail in movies, GINA CARANO is one of Hollywood's almost unique rising stars. Carano began her preparation with Muay Thai to competitive MMA, where she competed in Strikeforce and EliteXC. Her popularity led to her being called the "Face of Women's MMA" and she ...

Muay Thai (record: 12-1-1), Mixed Martial Arts (record: 7-1), Kickboxing

Phillip Rhee

Histrion | Best of the Best

Phillip Rhee is a principal martial artist, actor and filmmaker best known for creating the "Best of the All-time" film franchise with his producing partner and mentor Peter E. Strauss (Former Chairman of Lions Gate) and Frank Giustra, a Canadian Billionaire and founder of Lions Gate. The offset "Best of ...

Tae Kwon Practice (6th Dan), Hapkido (3rd Dan), Kendo (1st Dan), Wing Chun

Ryan Phillippe

Player | Crash

Ryan Phillippe was born on September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware, to Susan (Thomas), a nurse, and Richard Phillippe, a chemical technician. He has three sisters, Kirsten, Lindsay, and Katelyn, and attended New Castle Baptist University. Ryan's acting career began with the soap opera I Life to ...

Black belt in Tae Kwon Practice.

Shô Kosugi

Histrion | Ninja Assassinator

Easily the best known actor/martial artist during the 1980s ninja cinema craze, Kosugi was a proficient martial artist & skilled weapons performer which was highlighted in his several starring roles.

Kosugi grew up every bit the youngest child and only son of a Tokyo fisherman, and began his martial arts ...

Ninjutsu (All Nippon Karate Champion) Shindō jinen-ryū Karate, Kendo, Judo, Iaido, Kobudo, Aikido.

Billy Blanks

Histrion | The Last Boy Sentinel

Muscular African American sports star, thespian, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fettle system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1955 amid apprehensive backgrounds and grew up equally one of 15 children, contesting ...

Karate, Tang Soo Do, Tae Kwon Do (7th Dan; 7-time PKL World Karate Champion; Karate Hall of Fame entry; captain of United states of america Olympic Karate Squad) creator of the Tae-Bo exercise program

Loren Avedon

Actor | The Rex of the Kickboxers

Afterwards graduating from Beverly Hills Loftier School in 1980, while attention college Loren Avedon signed upwardly at the Jun Chong Tae Kwon Practise Karate schoolhouse in Los Angeles. He received his commencement "suspension" while training belatedly one nighttime at the Karate school. Producer Roy Horan was looking for an actor/martial ...

Tae Kwon Practice (5th Dan), Hapkido (8th Dan)

Michael Worth

Actor | Killing Cupid

Built-in in Philadelphia, Michael came from a line of German sailors on one side and American Delaware Indians on the other. As a ten year quondam Michael directed his first film entitle The Tire. It was shot with a super-8 camera his mother bought him. He continued making curt films into his tardily teens. ...

Tang Soo Do (1st Dan), Escrima, Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, Aikido, Judo

Jeff Wincott

Actor | The Night Of

Jeff Wincott is an established actor and producer originally from Toronto, Canada. He starred in the accolade-winning Canadian television serial Night Heat playing Detective Giambone for five years. He was nominated for All-time Thespian at the Gemini Awards for his performance which gave him international ...

" Shotokan Karate (5th Dan; Ontario Open & North American Open up Champion), Tae Kwon Do (1st Dan)

Channing Tatum

Role player | 21 Jump Street

Channing Tatum was born in a small-scale boondocks, Cullman, Alabama, 50 miles due north of Birmingham. He is the son of Kay (Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Matthew Tatum, who worked in structure. Growing upwards, he was full of energy and somewhat troublesome, so his parents decided to enroll him in ...

Gor-Chor, Karate

Jeff Speakman

Histrion | The Perfect Weapon

Jeff Speakman was built-in and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where he became a All-American springboard diver in loftier schoolhouse. He bankrupt records in his school'due south commune and conference all without always having a coach. Determined to go to college, he worked for vi years and graduated with honors from ...

Kenpo (eighth, fourth, and second Dan under unlike masters; Black Chugalug Hall of Fame entry), Goju-Ryu Karate (7th Dan) founder of the AKKS karate organization, currently operating 50 schools internationally

Olivier Gruner

Actor | Nemesis

Olivier Gruner was born on Baronial 2, 1960 in Paris. His father was a successful surgeon with his own surgery practice. Ane of his brothers also became a surgeon and his younger brother became an engineer. When he was 18 years quondam, he joined the Marine Nationale, volunteering for their Commando ...

Kickboxing (French National Champion; World Middleweight Champion), Shotokan Karate, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Matthias Hues

Player | Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

Matthias Hues was born on Valentine's Mean solar day in Waltrop, Frg, to the late Dr. Josef Hues and Maria Humperdinck Hues who still resides in Germany. Maria is the niece of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel.

Matthias was very involved in sports from an early age on. By the ...

Tae Kwon Do (1st Dan), Kickboxing

Taylor Lautner

Role player | Twilight

Taylor Daniel Lautner was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Deborah, a software company worker, and Daniel Lautner, a pilot for Midwest Airlines. He, and younger sister Makena, were raised in a well-mannered, Roman Catholic household in Hudsonville, Michigan. He is of English, German, Dutch, and ...

Karate (Junior Black Belt Forms & Weapons champion) Xtreme Martial Arts (Black belt by the historic period of eight, and winning several inferior world championships)

Daniel Bernhardt

Role player | Atomic Blonde

Daniel Bernhardt was born on the 31st August 1965 in Worblaufen, Bern in Switzerland. After finishing high school, he studied architectural design for 4 years and graduated in Bern. At the aforementioned time he opened a martial arts school with his brother. Subsequently completing his studies, Daniel moved to ...

Kickboxing, Karate, Tae Kwon Practice

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung

Stunts | Ip Man

Built-in in Hong Kong, Sammo Hung'south interim career began while he was training in acrobatics, martial arts and dance as a child at the Prc Drama Academy, and he received acclaim for his operation with a troupe chosen "The Seven Little Fortunes." He made his feature film debut as an actor at the age ...

Wing Chun, Judo, Hapkido

JeeJa Yanin

Actress | Chocolate

Yanin "Jeeja" pronounced "ChiCha" Vismitananda was born in Bangkok, Thailand. Her female parent is Prasita Vismitananda and her male parent, Pawadol Borirak, was a businessman who died when his daughter was 17, she has an older brother, Nantapong "Jeed" Vismitananda. She is mainly of Thai descent with some ...

Taekwondo (3rd Dan blackness belt)

Gary Busey

Player | The Buddy Holly Story

A blond-haired, off-white-complexioned actor with a toothy grin and capable of an unsettling glint in his eyes, Gary Busey was born in Goose Creek, Texas, and was raised in Oklahoma. He is the son of Sadie Virginia (Arnett), a homemaker, and Delmar Lloyd Busey, a construction design managing director. He has ...

Jujitsu, Hapkido, Kendo (black belts in all styles), Capoeira

Vince Murdocco

Stunts | The Incredible Hulk

Vince Murdocco gained fame in the kickboxing world when he was the N American Cruiserweight Champion. He before long made the transition from kickboxing to moving picture, similar many world champions back in the 1990s. However, Vince fabricated his film debut in a softcore porn comedy, Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic ...

Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing (WKA, North American & Canadian Cruiserweight Champion; Japanese Shoot Boxing Champion)

Russell Wong

Actor | Romeo Must Die

Russell Wong has earned a reputation as a sexy, charismatic leading homo whose good looks are matched past his skills as an actor. The sixth of 7 children, Russell Wong was born in Troy, New York; the son of restaurateur William Wong and Dutch-American creative person Connie Van Yserloo. When Russell was ...

Tae Kwon Practise, Shoji-Ryu Karate, Fu Jow Pai chosen by Goldsea Asian American Daily every bit among the "100 Most Inspiring Asian-Americans of All Time

Adrian Paul

Actor | Nine Miles Down

With over 30 films and 200 hours of television experience, versatility, discipline and a solid work ethic have been the underpinnings of Adrian'due south very successful thirty-twelvemonth acting career. Internationally recognized for his role equally Duncan Macleod, in Highlander-The Series", Adrian has too produced and...

Kung Fu forms choy La Fut and Hung Gar, Tae-Kwon-Practise, Fly Chun, and boxing; Has likewise done extensive sword training with the Japanese Katana

Bas Rutten

Actor | Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Bas Rutten is a world-renowned mixed martial creative person who has as well made a proper noun for himself outside the ring every bit an actor, host, and boob tube personality.

Equally an actor Rutten can be seen co-starring in the Kevin James feature film Hither Comes the Boom (2012) for Columbia Pictures. Rutten previously ...

Mixed Martial Arts (UFC Heavyweight Champion; Rex of Pancrase Champion; record: 28-four-one), Kyokushin Karate (5th Degree Blackness Belt), Tae Kwon Do (second Degree Black Belt), ShinTai Karate (2nd Degree Black Belt), Muay Thai (tape: xiv-ii), Submission Wrestling.

Jerry Trimble

Player | Heat

Jerry Trimble was born in Newport, Kentucky. He was an insecure, fearful and bullied kid. At age 14 he was inspired by Bruce Lee and began studying Taekwon-Do. In six months he began pedagogy the fine art. At 15, Jerry earned the rank of first-degree blackness belt and became the number one point fighter in...

Kickboxing (Southeast & United States Champion; PKA & PKC Light/Welterweight Champion; Kentucky State Champion; record: 36-2), Tae Kwon Exercise (6th Dan) is officially one of the fastest kickers in the world, with a claw kick clocking 118 MPH

Ray Park

Role player | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Ray Park was born in Glasgow, Scotland, U.k.. He moved with his parents, younger blood brother and sis to London, UK, at the age of seven. Ray always wanted to be in the movies, and be similar their heroes. He likewise began to nurture a love for martial arts from the age of seven, when his father's fondness ...

Northern Shaolin (Great Britain's Martial Arts National Champion), Wushu ('95 Earth Championships second place winner; member of British National Team), Kickboxing won Britain'southward National Championship at historic period xvi

Johnny Nguyen

Actor | Da 5 Bloods

Johnny left Vietnam at the age of 8, uncertain of what lied alee. As a boy, he already loved Hong Kong cinema. Johnny would start training in martial arts and at present has over xviii years of experience in Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Japanese Aikido. Johnny is now also an expert in Wushu, which he does for over ...

Wushu (member of US National Team; Pan-American Form & Sword Gold medalist), Lien Feng Kwon, Tae Kwon Do, Vovinam, Tai Chi, Aikido

Chris Casamassa

Thespian | Mortal Kombat

Chris Casamassa is the son of American Martial arts pioneer Louis D. Casamassa. He is a globe form Martial art expert with a ninth degree blackness belt in Red Dragon Karate and over 35 years of feel. Casamassa currently presides over the 12 Reddish Dragon Karate Schools in Southern California. He ...

Karate (7th Dan; five-fourth dimension International Forms & Weapons Champion; AKKF Hall of Fame entry)

Ho-Sung Pak

Thespian | Bottom of Three Evils

Korean-American born Ho-Sung Pak is best known for two accomplishments in martial arts. A wushu champion, Ho was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame in 1991. His offset accomplishment was that he played both Liu Kang and Shang Tsung in the video game that started a fad and 2 movies, Mortal ...

Wushu, Tae Kwon Practise, Shaolin & Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Lama Pai (Black Belt Hall of Fame entry; member of Professional Karate League & N American Karate Association)

Dominiquie Vandenberg

Stunts | Mortal Kombat

Starring in the award winning indie film The Honorable (2002) served to win Vandenberg the lead office in a series of Timex spots for managing director Tim Burton. Shortly subsequently he was hired to railroad train and teach Leonardo Di Caprio in antique knife fighting techniques for Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York ...

Mixed Martial Arts, Muay Thai

Noah Ringer

Player | The Last Airbender

Noah Andrew Ringer is an American actor who starred as Aang in the moving picture The Last Airbender. He was discovered in an open casting call for Airbender in Texas. He was likewise bandage in the film Cowboys & Aliens as Emmett.

Ringer is a young taekwondo practitioner who was built-in and raised in Dallas, Texas. At...

Tae Kwon Do (2d dan; ATA Earth & Texas State champion; 80-fourth dimension ATA regional Gold medalist), Bagua Zhang, Tai Chi, Wushu (Extreme Martial Arts: Traditional Forms, Traditional Weapons, Sparring, 10-Treme Forms, and 10-Treme Weapons)

Robert Wall

Histrion | Enter the Dragon

Robert Wall was born on August 22, 1939 in San Jose, California, U.s.a.. He is known for Enter the Dragon (1973), Meng long guo jiang (1972) and Game of Death (1978). He was married to Lillian Prescott. He died on January thirty, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

Tang Soo Do (9th Dan; 1970 PKC Champion; PKA Hall Of Fame entry), Kickboxing, Okinawa-Te & Shorin-Ryu Karate, Judo, Jujitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Jason Yee

Thespian | The Girl from the Naked Eye

Jason Yee is an actor, director and producer who transitioned from an acclaimed career every bit a professional martial creative person. He was born and raised in Boston's inner city by his unmarried mom and grandparents. In his early 20s Jason won numerous martial arts championships and became the first American to ...

Sanshou (Unified Super-Middleweight Sanshou Champion; Kung Fu Hall of Fame entry), Wushu (Beijing Gratuitous Fighting Champion)

Hakim Alston

Role player | Mortal Kombat

Hakim Alston is a Kickboxing champion with over 30 years of martial arts feel. He started his training in Tae Kwon Do when he was 10 and has a 4th degree black chugalug. He also trained in Karate. His skills brought him to be a member of the The states Karate Team from 1984-1990.

After becoming a world ...

Kickboxing (ISKA, WKC, PKL, NASKA & WUKO Champion/Aureate medalist), Tae Kwon Practice (4th Dan; member of Us National Karate Team)

Jason Scott Lee

Role player | Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Of Hawaiian and Chinese descent, Jason Scott Lee was born in Los Angeles, California, but raised in Hawaii from the age of ii. His interest in acting began while studying in high school. It blossomed further when he enrolled in Fullerton Higher, where he studied under interim coach Sal Romeo. His ...

Jeet Kune Do

Siu-Lung Leung

Actor | Kung fu

Born in Hong Kong in 1948, 'Bruce' Leung Siu-Lung was the eldest of twelve brothers (which included stuntman/martial arts player/action choreographer 'Tony' Leung Siu-Hung) and he obtained his martial arts training from his father at the Cantonese Opera. He too learned dissimilar forms of Karate and...

Gōjū-Ryū Karate, Fly Chun

Cam Gigandet

Actor | Twilight

Cam graduated from Auburn Loftier School in Auburn, Washington, in 2001. His family lives in Lake Tapps, WA. His male parent's name is Jay, his mother'south name is Kim, and he has one older sister, Kelsie. His begetter is one of the founders of a popular restaurant chain called The Rock, Wood Fired Pizza & ...

Krav Maga (Black Chugalug)

Gerald Okamura

Thespian | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Born in Hilo, Hawaii in 1940. Gerald started Martial Arts with Judo in 1953. He has practiced Kendo, Aikido, Taekwondo, and he is currently a fifth caste black chugalug in Kung Fu San Soo (his sensei was the tardily Jimmy H. Woo). Gerald is a designer of diverse types of weaponry that take been featured in...

San Doo (5th Dan), Judo, Kendo, Aikido, Tae Kwon Do

Jason David Frank

Actor | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Flick

Jason David Frank is well-known for his role of Tommy Oliver in the long-running family tv set show Power Rangers. He is the vocalisation of Emissary in Transformers: Titans Returns and brings Bloodshot to life in the highly-anticipated project Ninjak vs.the Valiant Universe. E'er 1 looking for ...

Karate (7th Dan; World Karate Spousal relationship & Blackness Belt Hall of Fame entry), Toso Kune Do (founder), Muay Thai (MTIA gold medalist), Mixed Martial Arts (record: 4-0)

Richard Norton

Actor | Under a Red Moon

A powerful screen presence, Richard Norton wins the adulation of international audiences with his engaging power to play either the hero or the heavy. Rare versatility and focused work ethic have enabled him to build an expanding library of about 100 film and idiot box titles. The disciplines ...

Goju-Ryu Karate (fifth Dan), Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu (4th degree blackness chugalug), Zen Exercise Kai (co-founder, 5th Dan), Chun Kuk Do (5th Dan), Judo, Aikido, Muay Thai a former "bodyguard to the stars

Cynthia Rothrock

Actress | The Martial Arts Kid

Cynthia Rothrock is a martial arts skilful and athlete, who went on to go a film actress, starring in a number of highly successful B activity movies. She first made a proper noun as an activeness actress in Hong Kong earlier going on to wow audiences in her habitation turf. At the time of her popularity, she was ...

Tang Soo Do (6th Dan), Tae Kwon Do, Eagle Claw, Wushu, Northern Shaolin, Pai Lum (black belts in all disciplines; 5-time World Champion in Weapons & Forms; Black Chugalug Hall of Fame entry)

David Bradley

Actor | American Ninja 4: The Annihilation

David Bradley was born in Plano, Texas on Oct ii, 1953. He is well known to the fans of low upkeep and martial arts films.

Prior to films, Bradley worked every bit a car salesman on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and skillful such martial arts every bit Shotokan Karate, Chinese Kempo, Tai Chi and Aikido. ...

Karate Shotokan, Kempo, Tai Chi and Aikido Tae Kwon Practice, Aikido, Iaido, Wing Chun, Judo, Jujitsu

Bolo Yeung

Actor | Bloodsport

Bolo Yeung was born in Cathay. He began his martial arts training at the age of 10. Growing upwards he took an interest in bodybuilding. Later he became know as Chinese Hercules after becoming Mr. Hong Kong bodybuilding champion. He held the title for x years. Because of his impressively muscular ...

Wing Chun, Tai Chi

Eric Lee

Actor | Big Trouble in Little Cathay

Eric started his training with his father afterwards dinner. The martial art was Choi Li Fut. At that time, everybody adept Kung Fu. Eric Lee was inspired past the blackness and white series Won Duck Hing. At the age of 15 his formal martial arts training started. Now he trained some Wing Chun and ...

Wun Hop Kuen (7th Dan), Kajukenbo (9th degree black chugalug), Jeet Kune Do, Northern/Southern Shaolin, Choy Lay Fut, Tai Chi, Chin-Na, Judo, Wing Chun, Hung Gar (Black Belt Hall of Fame entry)

Benny Urquidez

Actor | Grosse Pointe Bare

Benny Urquidez was raised in a very able-bodied family unit. His female parent was a professional wrestler and his father a professional boxer, with all of his siblings blackness belts. He has earned black belts in nine unlike martial arts and trained in other styles.

The Jet decided to pursue total-contact karate ...

Kickboxing (8-time WKA Champion; record: 58-0; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry), Ukidokan Karate (founder), Judo, Kajukenbo, Shotokan Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Lima Lama, White Crane kung fu, Jujutsu, Aikido

Vincent Cassel

Actor | Black Swan

Bluish-eyed Vincent Cassel was born in Paris to a leading actor father, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and a announcer mother, Sabine Litique. Oft labeled as a tough guy considering of his roles, eclectic choices and talent have made of him a star of European cinema. First in La haine (1995), the young actor, ...

Capoeira

Joe Lewis

Actor | Kingpin

Joe Lewis is an histrion, known for Kingpin (1996) and Leather Jackets (1991).

Kickboxing, Shorin-Ryu Karate (10th Dan; WPKC Globe Heavyweight Champion; Us National Blackness Belt Kata & Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion; record: 14-4), Jeet Kune Do won the start "official" martial arts tournament; upon victory

Jeong-lee Hwang

Actor | Ying zhao necktie bu shan

Hwang Jang-Lee is the ultimate bootmaster. Known for his powerful and deadly kicks on screen equally well equally off, Hwang has a reputation as the Lord of the Superkickers. Built-in in Japan, Hwang'southward family moved back to their native Korea, where at the historic period of 14, Hwang began taking the national martial art of...

Tae Kwon Do (9th Dan)

Michael Chaturantabut

Thespian | The Time Motorcar

Mike Chat equally his friends call him, represents a new moving ridge of Kung Fu, with over xiv years of experience, combining Okinawan Shorei-Ryu every bit a 4th degree black chugalug, Tae Kwon Practice, Chinese Wushu, Kickboxing, yoga, ballet, trip the light fantastic toe and acrobatics. Mike was inducted in the World martial Arts Hall of Fame in ...

Shorei-Ryu Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Wushu, Kickboxing (ISKA, WAKO, NASKA & United states 1000 Open Champion in Weapons & Forms; Black Chugalug & World Martial Arts Hall of Fame entry) co-creator Xtreme Martial Arts

Keith Cooke

Actor | Mortal Kombat

Keith Cooke is a man of many qualities, accomplished in the arts of Wushu, Tae Kwon Do and Karate.

He started his WuShu training in 1973, under Roger Tung. In 1980 he went to China and he trained for 5 hours a twenty-four hour period and entered the competition excursion in 1983. He immediately gained a second place in ...

Wushu (WAKO World Champion in Forms & Weapons, 5-time U.s. World/Open Karate Grand Champion), Tae Kwon Do, Karate is of Scottish and Japanese beginnings

Matt Mullins

Stunts | Divergent

From his apprehensive beginnings of watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Matt Mullins has risen to become world renown in martial arts, and as a star in the CW4Kids evidence "Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight".

With v martial art world titles in mitt, Matt moved from Naperville, IL to Hollywood and quickly began ...

Shōrei-Ryū Karate (quaternary Dan; 5-fourth dimension WKA World Champion)

Forest Whitaker

Role player | The Last King of Scotland

Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a rex-size talent into his hulking half-dozen' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an University Accolade for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the motion-picture show The Last King of Scotland (2006), and has also won a Aureate Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to...

Karate (1st Dan)

Dale Cook

Player | Eternal Fist

Dale Cook was born on November 24, 1958 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United states of america. He is an role player, known for Eternal Fist (1992), Blood Ring (1991) and Claret Band 2 (1995).

Karate (7th Dan), Kickboxing (WKA & Britain Super Middleweight Champion)

Karen Sheperd

Stunts | Mystery Men

Karen Sheperd is an American actress in moving-picture show, television and theatre. Her recurring guest-star role as "The Enforcer" on television's "Hercules, The Legendary Journeys", reverse Kevin Sorbo, received the highest ratings always for the entire series. Karen has appeared on numerous other TV shows, ...

Kajukenbo, Wun Hop Kuen (US Open Karate Grand Champion; United states Black Belt Forms Champion; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry; WKC Gold medalist)

Michael Bernardo

Actor | Batman & Robin

Michael Benardo started his martial arts training at the age of 8. His parents put him on to Judo, to gain self conviction, and from there he became interested in Karate at the same school. Michael trained at four schools and got his blackness belt from Richard Kim in California.

At the age of 17, he ...

Judo, Karate (7th Dan; fifteen-time Canadian/Due north American Forms, Weapons & Fighting Champion, four-time American Middleweight Fighting Champion; Black Belt Hall of Fame entry)

Simon Rhee

Stunts | Inception

Simon Rhee is a 7th Degree Black Chugalug in Tae Kwon Do and a quaternary Degree Black Belt in Hap Ki Exercise. He is a World-Grade Martial Artist known for his beautiful kicks and incredible forms, and is a many-fourth dimension Grand Champion of the tournament circuit. Karate Illustrated noted that, "Simon Rhee has the ...

Tae Kwon Do (seventh Dan), Hapkido (fourth Dan), Wing Chun

Kariim Ratcliff

Actor | The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Final Temptation of Toxie

Kariim Ratcliff was born in Brooklyn, New York to Levester and Ida Ratcliff. Kariim'southward early involvement in the martial arts led him to an acting career. Growing up in Bedford Stuyvesant, the middle child of ten, his seven brothers showed great power in basketball game, while Kariim showed no interest, ...

Tae Kwon Do (7th Dan), Kemet-Jitsu (co-founder)

Ernie Reyes Sr.

Actor | Art of Submission

Ernie Reyes Sr. grew upward with his parents, working in the labor field. There he had his get-go lessons in subject field. This didn't work at schoolhouse, considering Ernie would be the showtime to fall comatose and the last beingness able to read. He did withal, excel in all sports his young friends were playing; ...

Tae Kwon Practice (7th Dan; Black Chugalug & Tae Kwon Practice Hall of Fame entry)

Professor Toru Tanaka

Actor | Last Action Hero

Congenital similar the proverbial Patton tank, Professor Toru Tanaka was arguably the successor to Harold Sakata equally the archetypal Asian henchman who possessed incredible strength, and clobbered those foolish enough to tangle with him. Born Charles Kalani, he was a successful wrestler and served for over ...

Boxer, Martial Artist

Randall 'Tex' Cobb

Actor | Raising Arizona

Former Heavyweight battle contender Randall "Tex" Cobb has had iii highly colorful careers; kickboxer, pro boxer, and movie actor. Born in Bridge City, Texas on May 7, 1950, the 6'3", 225 pound Cobb excelled in loftier school football game and martial arts. Enjoying "extreme" sports to the max, Cobb launched...

Boxer, full contact kickboxing, Karate (Black belt)

Keith Vitali

Histrion | Superfights

Started his martial arts career at the Academy Of South Carolina in 1971 and in just two years, earned his 1st degree Black Belt. Competed in regional tournaments and major events throughout the world. Was World Karate Champion and U.s. National Karate Champion for 3 sequent years. (1978-1980)...

Karate (3-time Earth Karate/US National Champion; PKA National Champion; Officials Karate'due south Legion Of Laurels; Diamond Nationals & Blackness Belt Hall of Fame entry)

Stephen Chow

Role player | Kung fu

Stephen Chow was the only boy of his family unit, and has grown upwards as a Bruce Lee fan and a martial arts aficionado. His career started on TV, where he presented a children show ( "430 Space Shuttle" (1983)) and started condign pop. He got some supporting roles, afterward that, and won the Taiwanese Golden...

Wing Chun

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