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Steven Seagal

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Steven Seagal

Steven Seagal at the Pollstar Awards in February 2006

Born

April 10, 1952 (age 56)
Lansing, Michigan, U.S.

Other name(s)

Chungdrag Dorje, Takeshigemichi

Spouse(s)

Miyako Fujitani (1975–1986)
Adrienne La Russa (1984–1987)
Kelly LeBrock (1987–1996)

Official website

Awards won
Golden Raspberry Awards
Worst Director 1994 On Deadly Ground

Steven Seagal (born April 10, 1951) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, martial artist, singer-songwriter, spiritualist and activist. Seagal belongs to a generation of movie action hero actors including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis which featured in many of the Hollywood blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and 1990s. A 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) 7th-dan black belt in aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in Japan, and became the first foreigner to ever own and operate an aikido dojo in Japan in Osaka . He later moved to the Los Angeles, California area where he made his film debut in 1988 in Above the Law. Since then, Seagal has become a globally recognized action star, mainly due to his action films of the 1990s such as Under Siege (1992) and Under Siege 2 (1995) where he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback. In total his movies have earned about $730 million worldwide.

Seagal has used his fame as an action star to cross over into other industries. He is also a recording artist and guitarist and the founder of Steven Seagal Enterprises. In addition to his professional achievements, he is also known as an environmentalist, an animal rights activist and, like other actors such as Richard Gere, is a supporter of Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama and the cause of Tibetan independence. Spiritualism and Buddhism plays an important role in Seagal's life and he has been recognized by Tibetan lama Penor Rinpoche as a reincarnated Tulku (Chungdrag Dorje). According to Seagal in a November 2006 interview "I was born very different, clairvoyant and a healer".

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