Hans Lundgren born 3 November 1957 better known as Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor filmmaker and martial artist Lundgrens 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 masters 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 198081 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 HeMan 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 directtovideo films since 1995 Lundgren returned to Hollywood in 2010 with the role of Gunnar Jensen in The Expendables alongside Sylvester Stallone and an allaction star cast He reprised his role in The Expendables 2 2012 and The Expendables 3 2014 Also in 2014 he costarred in Skin Trade an action thriller about human trafficking he cowrote 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 protagonists 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
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