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Dolph Lundgren

Dolph Lundgren

Birthday: 1957-11-03 | Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Hans Lundgren (born 3 November 1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. Lundgren's breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in Rocky IV as the imposing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in more than 69 films, almost all of them in the action genre. Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982. He holds the rank of 4th dan black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980–81. While in Sydney, he became a bodyguard for Jamaican singer Grace Jones and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with her and begin acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgren got a small debut role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. After appearing in Rocky IV, Lundgren portrayed He-Man in the 1987 science fantasy film Masters of the Universe, Lt. Rachenko in Red Scorpion (1988) and Frank Castle in the 1989 film The Punisher. Throughout the 1990s he appeared in films such as I Come in Peace (1990), Cover Up (1991), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Universal Soldier film series (1992, 2009, 2012), Joshua Tree (1993), Pentathlon (1994), Men of War (1994), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), The Shooter (1995), Silent Trigger (1996), The Peacekeeper (1997), and Blackjack (1998). In 2004 he directed his first film, The Defender, and subsequently directed The Mechanik (2005), Missionary Man (2007), Command Performance (2009), and Icarus (2010), also starring in all of them. After a long spell performing in direct-to-video films since 1995, Lundgren returned to Hollywood in 2010 with the role of Gunnar Jensen in The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone and an all-action star cast. He reprised his role in The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014). Also in 2014, he co-starred in Skin Trade, an action thriller about human trafficking he co-wrote and produced. He reprised his role of Ivan Drago in Creed II (2018), and is due to reprise his role as Gunner Jensen in The Expendables 4. He appears in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017), playing the protagonist's son Gil as an adult, and in Aquaman (2018), playing the father of Mera. He also had a recurring role in the fifth season of Arrow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dolph Lundgren, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Minions: The Rise of Gru

as    Svengeance (voice)

2021
Seal Team

as    Dolph (voice)

2021
The Making of 'Rocky vs. Drago'

as    Ivan Drago (archive footage)

2021
Castle Falls

as    Richard Ericson

2021
Pups Alone

as    Victor von Manure

2019
The Tracker

as    Aiden Hakansson

2019
Hard Night Falling

as    Michael Anderson

2018
Creed II

as    Ivan Drago

2018
Aquaman

as    King Nereus

2018
Black Water

as    Marco

2017
Tour de Pharmacy

as    Gustav Ditters Present Day

2017
Female Fight Squad

as    Holt

2017
Dead Trigger

as    Kyle Walker

2017
Altitude

as    Sharpe

2016
Welcome to Willits

as    Derek

2015
4Got10

as    Bob Rooker

2015
War Pigs

as    Captain Hans Picault

2015
Shark Lake

as    Clint Gray

2015
The Real Miyagi

as    Himself

2015
Riot

as    William

2014
The Expendables 3

as    Gunner Jensen

2014
Puncture Wounds

as    Hollis

2014
Skin Trade

as    Nick Cassidy

2013
SAF3

as    John Eriksson