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Steven Frederic Seagal (/ s ɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː l / sig-AHL; born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician.
- Songs From The Crystal Cave
Songs from the Crystal Cave is the debut album from actor,...
- Ayako Fujitani
Early life. Ayako Fujitani was born in Osaka, Japan.She is...
- Kelly LeBrock
She also starred in the John Hughes film Weird Science...
- General Commander
Plot. A botched mission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that results...
- Above The Law
Above the Law (also known as Nico: Above the Law, or simply...
- Under Siege
Under Siege is a 1992 American action thriller film directed...
- Attack Force
Attack Force is a 2006 American science fiction action...
- Half Past Dead
Half Past Dead is a 2002 American action film written and...
- Belly of The Beast
Belly of the Beast is a 2003 American action film directed...
- Driven to Kill
Plot. Ruslan Drachev (Steven Seagal) is a former Russian...
- Songs From The Crystal Cave
- Early years
- Later career
- Style
- Film
- Sequel
- Controversy
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...
- Actor, Producer, Writer
- April 10, 1952
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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 school math teacher.
- Actor, Producer, Writer
- April 10, 1952
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Apr 2, 2014 · Actor Steven Seagal is best known for his starring roles in martial arts films like 'Hard to Kill and 'Under Siege.'
Seagal was one of the most successful martial arts actors of the 1980s and 1990s, alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. Credited with popularising aikido in film, Seagal is considered an important figure in the development and popularization of martial arts in the West.
- Actor, movie producer, martial artist, musician, writer, reserve deputy sheriff
- 1987–present
- Chungdrag Dorje, Takeshigemichi
All 17 titles average out to just under 3 words per movie moniker (actually, 2.5), which means Sayles' 18th movie must star the king of the three word movie title, Steven Seagal. Laugh if you must, but IMDb will tell you Sayles once wrote a film for Dolph Lundgren.
Jan 9, 1986 · Jan. 9, 1986 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. For 15 years, until he returned to the United States in 1984, Steven Seagal lived in Japan, spoke the language, studied the martial arts and became a...
