15 Best Van Damme Movies of All Time.
Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille Francois Van Varenberg, on October 18, 1960, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium. His father Eugene van Varenberg introduced him to martial arts when he found that Jean Claude was a thin and scraggy-looking kid, his mother Eliana was apprehensive of it. It has been a struggle from the bottom for Jean Claude and one of the first people who helped him was Chuck Norris for whom he worked as a bouncer in one of his nightclubs. He took the name, Jean Claude Van Damme, from the father of a friend who helped him to fly to Hong Kong to seek greener pastures as gratitude. His movies have had mixed reactions from the box office and whilst some did well others did not and add to that he had to struggle with personal issues, as well. His family life ended in four divorces but he came back strongly after a visit to various drug rehab centers and remarried his ex-wife Gladys Portugues with whom he lives now. Jean Claude Van Damme has three children from two marriages. Two of the three children are from his present wife Gladys. Here today we take a look at the best Van Damme movies of all time, and for which he earned from a meager $0.25 million to a whopping $8.0 million per movie: