Steven F. Seagal (pronounced /sɨˈɡɑːl/; born April 10, 1952) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, martial artist, philanthropist, guitarist, and singer-songwriter. He belongs to a generation of movie action hero actors who were featured in many blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and 1990s (such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Bruce Willis to name a few). A 6' 4" (193 cm) 7th-dan black belt in...
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Steven F. Seagal (pronounced /sɨˈɡɑːl/; born April 10, 1952) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, martial artist, philanthropist, guitarist, and singer-songwriter. He belongs to a generation of movie action hero actors who were featured in many blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and 1990s (such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Bruce Willis to name a few). 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 operate an aikido dojo in Japan, but was banned in Osaka, Japan. 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 major action star, mainly due to his 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....
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