Steven F. Seagal (born April 10, 1951)
[Steven Seagal - About Steven] is an
American action movie actor,
producer, writer,
director,
martial artist and
singer-
songwriter. He belongs to a generation of movie
action hero actors (including
Sylvester Stallone,
Chuck Norris,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Dolph Lundgren,
Jean-Claude Van Damme, and
Bruce Willis) who were featured in many of the Hollywood blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and 1990s.
A 6' 4" (193 cm) 7th-
dan black belt in
aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in
Japan. He became the first foreigner to ever own and operate an aikido dojo in
Osaka, Japan.
[Britishaikido.com, Retrieved on January 27, 2008] 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 well 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 in excess of $850 million worldwide.
