Jean-Claude Van Damme transformation from 1 to 57 years old

Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD) is a Belgian actor, martial artist, screenwriter, film producer, and director best known for his martial arts action films. The most successful of these films include Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989), Lionheart (1990), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), Street Fighter (1994), Timecop (1994), Sudden Death (1995), JCVD (2008) and The Expendables 2 (2012).

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg was born on October 18, 1960, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium. A skinny child, he began studying Shotokan karate at age 11, and also eagerly took to weightlifting and ballet. As a teenager, Van Damme won the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association and was named "Mr. Belgium" in a bodybuilding competition. Jean-Claude Van Damme opened a gym in Brussels and earned some modeling work, but he was enthralled with the idea of becoming a film star. After briefly attempting to break into the thriving martial-arts movie industry in Hong Kong, China, he moved to Los Angeles, California, in the early 1980s to pursue his Hollywood dreams.

Originally calling himself "Frank Cujo," Jean-Claude Van Damme received bit parts in feature films and worked as a cabdriver, waiter, aerobics instructor and nightclub bouncer as he tried to make a name for himself in Tinseltown. He was featured in the 1986 martial-arts flick No Retreat, No Surrender, but his big break came after he displayed his ability to perform a jumping, 360-degree "helicopter kick" to B-list producer Menahem Golan, who cast the unknown actor in Bloodsport (1988). The low-budget film grossed a surprising $35 million at the box office, and Van Damme followed with another successful starring role in Kickboxer the following year.

Over the following decade, Van Damme filled the big screen in such action flicks as Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Time Cop (1994), Sudden Death (1995) and Maximum Risk (1996), overcoming his limited acting chops with his acrobatic kicks and patented splits. He made his directorial debut with The Quest (1996), but Double Team (1997) and Knock Off (1998) were flops, and by the start of the 2000s most of his movies landed in the straight-to-video bin.

In 2008, Van Damme resurfaced as a fictionalized version of himself in the part-satirical, part-confessional JCVD. His performance drew positive reviews and triggered something of a revival for the former action star, who went on to reprise a familiar role in Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2010) and voice the character of Master Croc in Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). In 2012, Van Damme was back in his element as part of the veteran butt-kicking ensemble featured in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables 2.

Van Damme became addicted to cocaine and sleeping pills while at the height of his stardom in the 1990s, and was arrested for DUI in 1999. He was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder during this period, though his condition improved after he began taking medication and got his personal life in order. Van Damme has been married five times and has three children. Two of them, Kris Van Varenberg and Bianca Bree, have followed in their father's footsteps as actors.

In October 2012, Van Damme was honored with the unveiling of a bronze statue in his native Brussels. The statue depicts the former martial-arts champion in a classic fighting pose, ready to launch one of his famous flying kicks.

Jean-Claude Van Damme Filmography
1979 Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1984 Monaco Forever
1984 Breakin'
1986 No Retreat, No Surrender
1988 Bloodsport
1988 Black Eagle
1989 Cyborg
1989 Kickboxer
1990 Death Warrant
1990 Lionheart
1991 Double Impact
1992 Universal Soldier
1993 Last Action Hero
1993 Nowhere to Run
1993 Hard Target
1994 Timecop
1994 Street Fighter
1995 Sudden Death
1996 The Quest
1996 Maximum Risk
1997 Double Team
1998 Knock Off
1998 Legionnaire
1999 Universal Soldier: The Return
1999 Inferno
2001 The Order
2001 Replicant
2002 Derailed
2003 In Hell
2004 Wake of Death
2004 Narco
2006 The Hard Corps
2006 Second in Command
2006 The Exam
2007 Until Death
2008 The Shepherd: Border Patrol
2008 JCVD
2010 Universal Soldier: Regeneration
2011 Kung Fu Panda 2
2011 Assassination Games
2011 Beur sur la ville
2012 Rzhevskiy vs. Napoleon
2012 Dragon Eyes
2012 The Expendables 2
2012 Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
2012 Six Bullets
2012 U.F.O.
2013 Enemies Closer
2014 Welcome to the Jungle
2014 Swelter
2014 Full Love
2015 Pound of Flesh
2015 Jian Bing Man
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3
2016 Kickboxer: Vengeance
2017 Kill 'Em All
2017 Kickboxer: Retaliation
2018 Black Water

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