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Steven Frederic Seagal ( / sɪˈɡɑːl / sig-AHL; born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician. A 7th- dan black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan [2] where he became the first American to teach in an aikido dojo. [3] He later moved to Los Angeles ...
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Steven Frederic Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Patricia Anne (Fisher), a medical technician, and Samuel Seagal, a high school math teacher. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother had English, German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at the age...
Ovitz saw star value in the imposing-looking Seagal. The high-octane action movie genre was in full swing in the late 1980s, and Seagal's debut movie, \"Above the Law\", was wildly received by action fans and actually received some complimentary critical reviews. He followed up \"Above the Law\" with another slam-bang thriller, Hard to Kill (1990),...
Seagal's fighting style was rather different from that of other on-screen martial arts dynamos such as Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who were predominantly fighters from striking arts background such as karate or tang soo do. However, aikido is built around using an opponent's inertia and body weight to employ various locks, ch...
As his box-office drawing power grew, Seagal began to infuse his film projects with his personal and spiritual beliefs, especially concerning the abuse of the environment. He appeared as an oil fire expert who turns against his corrupt CEO (played by Michael Caine) in On Deadly Ground (1994) to save the Eskimo population from an oil disaster; in Fi...
In 1999 Seagal took a different turn in his film projects with the surprising genteel Prince of Central Park (2000), about a child living inside NYC's most famous park. He returned to more familiar territory with further high-voltage, guns-blazing action in Exit Wounds (2001), Half Past Dead (2002), Out for a Kill (2003) and Belly of the Beast (200...
Unbeknownst to many, in 1997 Seagal publicly announced that one of his Buddhist teachers, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, had accorded Seagal as a tulku, the reincarnation of a Buddhist Lama. This initial announcement was met with some disbelief until Penor Rinpoche himself gave a confirmation statement on Seagal's new title. Seagal has repeatedly dis...
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- April 10, 1952
Website. stevenseagal.com. Steven Frederic Seagal (born April 10, 1952) is an American martial artist, actor, producer, writer, musician and former reserve deputy sheriff. Seagal began his adult life as an Aikido instructor in Japan. [2] He became the first foreigner to have an Aikido dojo in Japan.
YearTitleRole1988Nico Toscani1990Mason Storm1990John Hatcher1991Det. Gino FelinoApr 2, 2014 · Actor and martial artist Steven Seagal was born on April 10, 1952, in Lansing, Michigan. The son of a nurse and a teacher, he started studying martial arts under Fumio Demura when he was a child.
Jun 5, 2013 · Jun 4, 2013 7:23pm PT. Republicans Embrace a Celebrity Diplomat: Steven Seagal. By Ted Johnson. It didn’t seem like too long ago that conservatives mocked the activism of liberal-minded...
May 7, 2024 · Seagal was among the attendees of Putin's presidential inauguration on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with American actor Steven Seagal at the Kremlin in Moscow on ...
On Deadly Ground is a 1994 American environmental action adventure film directed, co-produced by, and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley and R. Lee Ermey. As of 2024, it is Seagal's only directorial effort and features a minor appearance by Billy Bob Thornton in one of his early
