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Jean-Claude Van Damme

Born 1960 · Belgian actor and martial artist

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian martial artist and actor. Born and raised in Brussels, he was enrolled by his father in a Shotokan karate school at the age of ten, which led Van Damme to hold the rank of 2nd Dan in karate, and compete in several karate and kickboxing competitions. As a teenager, he won the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association in 1979 and the Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title in 1978. With the desire of becoming an actor in Hollywood, he moved to the United States in 1982, where he worked on several films, until he got his break as the lead in the martial arts film Bloodsport (1988).

Jean-Claude Van Damme, in order

  1. 1979 Woman Between Wolf and Dog: acted · directed by André Delvaux
  2. 1984 Breakin': acted · directed by Joel Silberg · critics 33%, audiences 73%
  3. 1984 Missing in Action: acted · directed by Joseph Zito · critics 19%, audiences 43% · streaming on Roku Channel, Fandango at Home (free), Plex
  4. 1984 Monaco Forever: acted · directed by William A. Levey
  5. 1984 Street of the Damned: acted · directed by Gilles Béhat
  6. 1986 No Retreat, No Surrender: acted · directed by Corey Yuen · critics 80%, audiences 53% · streaming on Fawesome
  7. 1988 Black Eagle: acted · directed by Eric Karson · audiences 16% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  8. 1988 Bloodsport: acted · directed by Newt Arnold · critics 48%, audiences 75% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  9. 1989 Cyborg: acted · directed by Albert Pyun · critics 24%, audiences 31% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, MGM+
  10. 1989 Kickboxer: wrote, acted · directed by David Worth and Mark DiSalle · critics 40%, audiences 64% · streaming on Philo, Fandango at Home (free), Plex
  11. 1990 Death Warrant: acted · directed by Deran Sarafian · critics 11%, audiences 35% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Plex
  12. 1990 Lionheart: wrote, acted · directed by Sheldon Lettich · critics 45%, audiences 53% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
  13. 1991 Double Impact: wrote, produced, acted · directed by Sheldon Lettich · critics 35%, audiences 43% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  14. 1992 Universal Soldier: acted · directed by Roland Emmerich · critics 34%, audiences 47% · streaming on Paramount+, MGM+
  15. 1993 Bruce Lee: The Curse of the Dragon: acted · directed by Fred Weintraub · audiences 75% · streaming on Roku Channel
  16. 1993 Hard Target: acted · directed by John Woo · critics 62%, audiences 50%
  17. 1993 Last Action Hero: acted · directed by John McTiernan · critics 43%, audiences 48%
  18. 1993 Nowhere to Run: acted · directed by Robert Harmon · critics 36%, audiences 33% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Tubi
  19. 1994–2004 Friends (TV series): acted · critics 78%, audiences 93% · streaming on HBO Max
  20. 1994 Kickboxer 4: acted · directed by Albert Pyun · audiences 30% · streaming on Roku Channel, Plex, Prime Video (free)
  21. 1994 Street Fighter: acted · directed by Steven E. de Souza · critics 20%, audiences 20% · streaming on Pluto TV
  22. 1994 Timecop: acted · directed by Peter Hyams · critics 45%, audiences 39% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
  23. 1995 Sudden Death: acted · directed by Peter Hyams · critics 53%, audiences 40%
  24. 1995 Top Fighter: acted · directed by Toby Russell · audiences 50% · streaming on Kanopy, Tubi
  25. 1996 Maximum Risk: acted · directed by Ringo Lam · critics 35%, audiences 36% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Tubi
  26. 1996 The Quest: directed, acted · critics 14%, audiences 36%
  27. 1997 Double Team: acted · directed by Tsui Hark · critics 11%, audiences 25%
  28. 1998 Knock Off: acted · directed by Tsui Hark · critics 10%, audiences 27% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  29. 1998 Legionnaire: wrote, produced, acted · directed by Peter MacDonald · critics 29%, audiences 31% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
  30. 1999 Inferno: produced, acted · directed by John G. Avildsen · critics 0%, audiences 36% · streaming on Roku Channel, Prime Video (free), Fawesome
  31. 1999 Universal Soldier: The Return: produced, acted · directed by Mic Rodgers · critics 5%, audiences 24% · streaming on fuboTV
  32. 2001 Replicant: acted · directed by Ringo Lam · critics 27%, audiences 36% · streaming on Plex, Fawesome, Tubi
  33. 2001 The Order: wrote, acted · directed by Sheldon Lettich · critics 14%, audiences 28% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Pluto TV
  34. 2002 Derailed: acted · directed by Bob Misiorowski · critics 0%, audiences 21% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV
  35. 2003 In Hell: acted · directed by Ringo Lam · audiences 53% · streaming on fuboTV, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  36. 2004 Narco: acted · directed by Gilles Lellouche and Tristan Aurouet · audiences 63%
  37. 2004 Wake of Death: acted · directed by Philippe Martinez · audiences 43% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  38. 2006 Second in Command: acted · directed by Simon Fellows · audiences 33% · streaming on Prime Video, Pluto TV, Tubi
  39. 2006 The Exam: acted · directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak
  40. 2006 The Hard Corps: acted · directed by Sheldon Lettich · audiences 32% · streaming on Tubi
  41. 2007 Until Death: acted · directed by Simon Fellows · audiences 38% · streaming on fuboTV, Roku Channel, Shout! Factory TV
  42. 2008 JCVD: produced, acted · directed by Mabrouk El Mechri · critics 82%, audiences 74% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Kanopy
  43. 2008 The Shepherd: Border Patrol: acted · directed by Isaac Florentine · audiences 27% · streaming on fuboTV, Philo, Roku Channel
  44. 2009 Universal Soldier: Regeneration: acted · directed by John Hyams · audiences 34% · streaming on fuboTV
  45. 2011 Assassination Games: acted · directed by Ernie Barbarash · audiences 45% · streaming on Roku Channel, Tubi
  46. 2011 Beur sur la ville: acted · directed by Djamel Bensalah
  47. 2011 Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors (TV series): acted
  48. 2012 Dragon Eyes: acted · directed by John Hyams · audiences 18% · streaming on Philo, Starz
  49. 2012 Rzhevsky versus Napoleon: acted · directed by Maryus Vaysberg
  50. 2012 Six Bullets: acted · directed by Ernie Barbarash · audiences 41% · streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
  51. 2012 The Expendables 2: acted · directed by Simon West · critics 68%, audiences 67%
  52. 2012 U.F.O.: acted · directed by Dominic Burns · audiences 7%
  53. 2012 Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning: acted · directed by John Hyams · critics 57%, audiences 34% · streaming on fuboTV, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
  54. 2013 Enemies Closer: acted · directed by Peter Hyams · critics 79%, audiences 30% · streaming on YouTube (free), Plex, Tubi
  55. 2013 The Epic Split (short film): acted · directed by Andreas Nilsson
  56. 2013 Welcome to the Jungle: acted · directed by Rob Meltzer · critics 20%, audiences 20%
  57. 2014 Swelter: acted · directed by Keith Parmer · audiences 24% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Roku Channel
  58. 2015 Jian Bing Man: acted · directed by Dong Chengpeng · audiences 54%
  59. 2015 Pound of Flesh: acted · directed by Ernie Barbarash · critics 15%, audiences 22% · streaming on Philo, Starz
  60. 2016 Jean-Claude Van Johnson (TV series): acted · directed by Peter Atencio · critics 70%, audiences 95% · streaming on Prime Video
  61. 2016 Kickboxer: Vengeance: acted · directed by John Stockwell · critics 41%, audiences 48% · streaming on Philo, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  62. 2017 Kill 'Em All: acted · directed by Pjetër Malota · audiences 14% · streaming on YouTube (free), Tubi
  63. 2018 Black Water: acted · directed by Pasha Patriki · critics 0%, audiences 25% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Fandango at Home (free)
  64. 2018 Kickboxer: Retaliation: acted · directed by Dimitri Logothetis · critics 93%, audiences 84% · streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, Roku Channel
  65. 2018 The Bouncer: acted · directed by Julien Leclercq · critics 100%, audiences 48% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Philo
  66. 2019 We Die Young: acted · directed by Lior Geller
  67. 2021 The Last Mercenary: acted · directed by David Charhon
  68. 2024 Darkness of Man: acted · directed by James Cullen Bressack · critics 63%, audiences 42% · streaming on Hulu
  69. 2025 The Gardener: acted · directed by David Charhon
  70. Frenchy: directed, wrote, produced, acted
  71. Ramez Movie Star (TV series): acted
  72. Silent Kill: acted · directed by Anthony Hickox