Amidst his years of studying, Lundgren honed his karate skills by training hard in the dojo for five years, attaining the rank of 2nd dan black belt in Kyokushin in 1978. [6] He would later quit studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after two weeks to pursue acting. Film production began on 3 March 2009, with a budget of $82 million. He tries to escape from his past life, but his identity is discovered and he is hunted down, placing the lives of his wife and daughter and himself in jeopardy. But he also said, "I still love my father, no matter what happened. With Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers. [102] That same year, he appeared in the music video "Kosmosa" sung by the Russian singer Irson Kudikova. Also in 2014, he co-starred in Skin Trade, an action thriller about human trafficking he co-wrote and produced. [6] His father died in 2000. [95], In 2001, Lundgren starred in Hidden Agenda, directed by Marc S. Grenier. "Shoulders, calves, forearms, giant butt, neck, back, everything.”, SYLVESTER STALLONE HINTS AT END OF 'ROCKY' CHARACTER: 'SADLY ALL THINGS MUST PASS', Sylvester Stallone punches Dolph Lundgren in a scene from the film "Rocky IV" in 1985. [74] Lundgren plays a former Special Forces agent who joins a secretive government agency (called "The Agency") as an assassin. Training. I introduce to you part 1 of our in-depth exclusive interview with Dolph Lundgren. [90] His obsession to discover the killer's identity mounts as a series of other men are found murdered in a similar fashion, and he loses all objectivity and becomes a vigilante. [38] Christopher Null gave the film 1 out of 5, stating the film was "marred by cheeseball sets and special effects, lame fight sequences, and some of the worst acting ever to disgrace the screen. The film was mainly shot in Thailand, with Krabi and Phong Nga making up most of the island scenery. In it Lundgren plays a man who is in a group of genetically unique people who travel back in time to prevent the discovery of meteors containing deadly bacteria. He was born in Spenga, Stockholm, Sweden on November 3, 1957. Lundgren plays Jack Caine, a tough Houston cop with an inner sensitivity,[41] who does not let the rules of police procedure prevent him pursuing his mission to wipe out the White Boys, a gang of white collar drug dealers who killed his partner while he was waylaid stopping a convenience store robbery. [72] Later in 1995, Lundgren appeared in Ted Kotcheff's The Shooter, an action drama in which he plays Michael Dane, a U.S. Marshall who gets caught up in politics when he is hired to solve the assassination of a Cuban ambassador. Hans Lundgren , better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. Stallone's training paid off, as Lundgren says he hit harder that Carl Weathers, who starred as Apollo Creed. "This is what I would imagine they would create as an athlete — someone who is literally perfect. Since then, he has starred in more than 69 films, almost all of them in the action genre. It was the highest-grossing sports film of all time, until The Blind Side(2009), which grossed $309 million (without accounting for inflation). The Punisher, as Frank Castle / The Punisher1990 1. We all know that Sylvester Stallone did extremely physical work in the Rocky films, but it turns out that fighting Dolph Lundgren in the fourth film very nearly killed him, both on screen and off. "[6] After graduating from high school with straight A's, he spent some time in the United States in the 1970s on various academic scholarships, studying chemical engineering at Washington State University and Clemson University. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. They got engaged during a trip to Sweden last June. [154] Lundgren is not a heavy drinker, but has professed on many occasions to being fond of tequila and cocktails, citing his knowledge in chemical engineering as "making really good drinks". From the early years of fanatical love to martial arts, Dolph Lundgren became known as an actor in 1985 after the movie Rocky 4, playing with one of the best representatives of this genre, Sylvester Stallone. His wife was the "most traumatized",[160] and as of 2011[update], they are divorced. [144] In August 2017, he portrayed the future version of Gil Shepard in the Syfy film Sharknado 5: Global Swarming. Dolph Lundgren with daughters Ida and Greta Lundgren. 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. Roger Moore, in his last performance as James Bond, once memorably said, "Dolph is larger than Denmark". "[73], In 1996, Lundgren starred in Russell Mulcahy's Silent Trigger, about a sniper (Lundgren) and his female spotter (played by Gina Bellman). [citation needed][clarification needed], Lundgren has said that, as a child, he was insecure and suffered from allergies, describing himself as a "runt". In 2010, Lundgren made a guest star appearance on the TV series Chuck in the fourth-season premiere episode, "Chuck Versus the Anniversary", as Russian spy Marco, with references to Rocky IV's Ivan Drago. It was described by Lundgren as "an old-school, kick-ass action movie where people are fighting with knives and shooting at each other. Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren in 'Rocky IV,' which turned 35 on Nov. 27. [53][56][57][58] Film critic Roger Ebert said, "it must be fairly thankless to play lunks who have to fight for the entire length of a movie while exchanging monosyllabic idiocies", including it in his book I hated, hated, hated this movie. ", 'RAMBO' STAR SYLVESTER STALLONE SHOWS OFF CHARACTER'S NEW LOOK, DOLPH LUNDGREN AND MORE CELEBRITIES WHO ARE ACTUAL GENIUSES. [48][49][50][51], In 1992, Lundgren starred in one of the biggest blockbusters of the year in the sci-fi action picture Universal Soldier directed by Roland Emmerich. Lundgren currently lives in Los Angeles, California. [60], In 1994, Lundgren starred in Bruce Malmuth's Pentathlon as an East German Olympic gold medalist pentathlete on the run from an abusive coach (David Soul). One review said "the narrative is laughably stupid" and the DVD and Video Guide to 2005 said, "dull, lightweight, made-for-TV action fully to a satisfying climax". Lundgren tried out for the role, but as he himself has stated, he was initially turned down because he was too tall. [6][better source needed]. Lundgren was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. "[71] The film was a financial disappointment, grossing $19,075,720 in the domestic American market against its $26m budget. 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.
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