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Steven Seagal


Date Of Birth:
10 April 1952


Birth Location:
Lansing, Michigan, USA

Height:
6ft 4inches

Education:
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California.
Fullerton College, Fullerton, California.

Occupations:
Martial Artist, action star, musician.

Significant Others:
Wife: Miyako Seagal (née Fujitani); born 1948; married 1975; divorced 1987.
Wife: Adrienne La Russa. (filed for annulment when Kelly LeBrock became pregnant)
Wife: Kelly LeBrock, model, actress; met in Japan; top Dior model; filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, November 1994.
Others: Arissa Wolf; born 1975; former nanny to Seagal's and Kelly LeBrock's children.
Family:
Father: Stephen, math teacher.
Mother: Patricia, nurse.
Sisters: Has three; one older, two younger.
Son. Kentaro (aka Justice Seagal) actor, model; born 1976; mother, Miyako Fujitani.
Daughter: Ayako Seagal; mother, Miyako Fujitani; born 1980.
Daughter: Annaliza Seagal; born 1987; mother, Kelly LeBrock.
Son: Dominic San Rocco Seagal; born June 21, 1990; mother, Kelly LeBrock.
Daughter: Arissa; born July 24, 1993; mother, Kelly LeBrock.
Daughter: Savannah; born September 1996; mother, Arissa Wolf.



Steven Seagal is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, martial artist, guitarist, energy drink entrepreneur, and deputy sheriff. He belongs to a generation of show action hero actors who were featured in many blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and 1990s, such as Sylvester Stallone, Jeff Speakman, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Christopher Lambert, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, where he lived until he was five years old. His mother, Patricia (1930-2003), was a medical technician,

and his father, Samuel Steven Seagal (1928-1991), a high school math teacher. His mother was Irish American and his father was Jewish. The family relocated to Fullerton, California, where Seagal attended Buena Park High School in Buena Park, California..
Seagal initially returned to Taos, New Mexico, with his student—and later a film stuntman—Craig Dunn. There, they opened a dojo, but Seagal spent much of his time pursuing other ventures. Dunn stayed in New Mexico and continued to run the dojo. After another period in Japan, Seagal returned to the U.S. in 1983 with senior student Haruo Matsuoka. They opened an aikido dojo, initially in Burbank, California, but later moved it to the city of West Hollywood. Seagal left Matsuoka in charge of the dojo, which he ran until the two parted ways in 1997. It was during that period that Seagal first found himself in contact with Hollywood. Initially, he worked as the martial arts co-ordinator for the films The Challenge (1982) starring Scott Glenn and Toshirô Mifune, and Never Say Never Again (1983) starring Sean Connery.

Trivia:
As a kid growing up in Michigan, he was frail and asthmatic. A move to a dryer, warmer California helped.
In high school, Seagal worked at an Orange County, California, Burger King.
A letter to Movieline magazine in 1989, written by a high school classmate, remembered him, in the writer's opinion, as "a bully, a thug and a coward."
After mastering aikido in the United States, Seagal became one of the very few Westerners to teach the art in Japan, much less own a dojo.
The essence of aikido [one translation: "The Way of Harmony of the Spirit" is to become one with the motion of the universe. It's less about kicking and punching, more about using your enemy's own motion against him.
"If you look at him run, he runs like a woman," John Connolly, who wrote a scathing profile of Seagal for Penthouse, tells THS.
When he wed Adrienne La Russa in 1984, Seagal was still married to Miyako Fujitani, who was living in Japan.
According to the book she wrote, Seagal's last words to his first wife, the daughter of an aikido master, were: "You are crazy; I want a divorce."
Before he hit it big on the screen, Seagal's aikido dojo in West Hollywood attracted industry hotshots, including superagent Michael Ovitz.
He has a large gun collection.
He campaigned on behalf of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to improve the life of stray dogs in Taiwan, where they are, according to PETA, "gassed, starved, electrocuted and beaten to death."
He's a vegetarian.
A hard-core environmentalist, Seagal is a spokesman for Save the World Air, Inc., and he does ads encouraging you to recycle engine oil.
Seagal directed himself in On Deadly Ground, about a renegade taking revenge on a ruthless oil baron.
He plays guitar and has had an album in development for years. Wyclef Jean was, at one point, supposed to be producing a track.
Seagal is a reincarnated 17th-century Tibetan monk named Chungdrag Dorje [pronounce that: khyung brag rdo rje].
Responding to inquiries about how his ultraviolent movies mix with his coziness with Buddhist bigwigs like the Dalai Lama, Seagal once told a reporter: "A lot of great lamas and gurus I know really enjoy my films."
Witnesses in defense of a reputed wiseguy accused of trying to squeeze millions out of Seagal testified Monday saying that the actor is a delusional liar – When asked to describe Seagal’s reputation in the movie world, Canadian Filmmaker Damian Lee said the star’s ability to be truthful is questionable.(February 26, 2003)
Seagal has been accused of trying to lie his way out of a $500,000 debt -- prosecutors plan to call the actor as a reluctant witness in the case against Peter Gotti and other alleged members of the Gambino family, who are accused of loan-sharking and racketeering. (January 20, 2003)
Seagal is vehemently denying allegations that he paid a private detective to threaten an L.A. Times reporter who was investigating the actor's purported relationship with Mafia figures -- according to an FBI informant cited in court papers, ex-con Alexander Proctor told him that Seagal hired him to intimidate Times reporter Anita Busch via high-profile private detective Anthony Pellicano. (November 26, 2002)
Seagal and a Los Angeles private detective were linked Friday to a bizarre harassment episode against a Los Angeles Times reporter probing alleged links between Seagal and the Mafia -- Anthony Pellicano, private eye to the stars, was charged Friday with possessing illegal weapons after the FBI searched his Los Angeles office for evidence that he hired an ex-convict suspected of threatening Times reporter Anita Busch in June. (November 23, 2002)
Seagal’s case keeps seeming more and more like a bad mobster movie -- prosecutors say that producer Julius Nasso menaced Seagal's former assistant in order to get him to testify against the action star. (October 16, 2002)
A judge has refused to expel a $60 million lawsuit against Seagal that alleges the action film star backed out of movie projects on the advice of his Buddhist spiritual adviser. (September 30, 2002)
The reporters who dished about the Mafia extorting money from him are apparently getting a little more action than they bargained for.
He is the first foreigner ever to own and operate an Aikido dojo in Japan. Known as Master Take Shigemichi, he was the chief instructor at the Aikido Tenshin Dojo in the city of Osaka.
His Santa Inez home includes 200 acres planted with cabernet grapes, which he contracts a winery to distill.
Arrissa, his youngest child with LeBrock, was named after the family nanny. Seagal then got involved romantically with the nanny who then became pregnant with his child.
Steven Seagal's business partner claims the actor broke a contract to star in four movies after falling under the spell of a Buddhist spiritual advisor.

Quotes:
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
(On what he thinks are the most important lessons that one should strive to live by in Aikido) Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with intregrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
In life you never stop learning
An only son, Seagal has three sisters, one older and two younger. He owns a dude ranch in Colorado and a home in the Mandeville Canyon section of Brentwood, a wealthy neighborhood in Los Angeles. He has adopted many animals from shelters, including the cats Sylvester and Gap, and the dogs Gruff, Cole, Tyson, Hamlet, and Chaos. Seagal travels back and forth to a home in Eads, Tennessee, a rural unincorporated area located just east of Memphis, Tennessee.
After Seagal left his first wife Miyako Fujitani to go back to the United States, he married former Days of our Lives actress Adrienne La Russa, despite his divorce to Fujitani not yet being finalized. During his marriage to La Russa he met actress/model Kelly LeBrock, with whom he began a relationship and who eventually became pregnant with his child. When news of this emerged, Seagal's marriage to La Russa was annulled and he then married LeBrock on September 5, 1987. In 1994, LeBrock filed divorce papers citing "irreconcilable differences". During this time it emerged that Seagal was having an affair with Arissa Wolf, who was hired to be a nanny to Seagal and Lebrock's children.
Seagal has six children from three relationships. With Miyako Fujitani, he had a son, model and actor Kentaro Seagal, and a daughter, writer and actress, Ayako Fujitani.
MIYAKO FUJITANI

Miyako Seagal (née Fujitani); born 1948; married 1975; divorced 1987

Son: Take Kentaro- 1976, actor,model
Daughter: Ayako Fujitani- 1979- actress.
Miyako Fujitani, holds the rank of 7th dan. Her rank was conferred to her by the "Tokyo" Aikikai in Osaka, Japan. Miyako sensei has been practicing the art of aikido for 45 years. She received her shodan (first degree black belt) from the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba. She married Steven Seagal in 1975 when Seagal was in his twenties. Her mother owned the building in Osaka where the aikido dojo was housed.
Aikido is a Japanese martial art that developed in the early 20th century. Aikido literally means "The Way of Harmony with Energy," and the essence of its practice is the cultivation of ki (internal power, mental/spiritual energy). Although it does use weapons such as swords or spears, Aikido is not an offensive fighting technique but an art committed to peaceful resolution of conflict. Its basic technique places great emphasis on circular motion and the dynamics of movement.
Miyako Fujitani, a pioneer female Aikido instructor in Japan, stresses that the most important factor in the art of Aikido is not physical strength but the skill to control the flow of energy. Ms. Fujitani, Head Instructor of
Aikido Tenshin Dojo in Osaka, Japan, which she co-founded in 1976, discusses the history of Aikido, its spiritual/philosophical background, its connection with other traditional Japanese arts, her own techniques and style, and her experiences for more than 20 years as a leading female figure in a profession which, by tradition, has been dominated by men.
The Tenshin Dojo has recently opened a new branch in the LA area; the chief instructor is her son, Kentaro Seagal. Kentaro Take holds a 4th dan black belt in Aikido and shodan in Hokushin Itou Ryu Kenjitsu. He was raised at the Tenshin Dojo in Japan with the sound of Aikido ukemi on tatami mats never far away. He is an artist by nature
Justice Kentaro
Take-Seagal; Kentaro Take; Kentaro Seagal; Kentaro Fujitani

Kentaro Take holds a 4th dan black belt in Aikido and shodan in Hokushin Itou Ryu Kenjitsu.He was raised at the Tenshin Dojo in Japan with the sound of Aikido ukemi on tatami mats never far away.He is also an artist by nature, so he looks forward to creating art and teaching aikido as the head instructor of the Tenshin dojo in America.
Born October 3, 1975 in Juso, Osaka
Stats
6 ft 3 (192 cm), 154 lbs (70kg)
Brownish green eyes and brown hair
Family
Yin Tze (wife)
Shotaro (eldest son)
Suzuka (daughter)
Miyako Fujitani (mother) Steven Seagal (Father)
Ayako Fujitani (sister)
Education
Brewster Academy (graduated with Summa Cum Laude)
University of Southern California - Fine Arts (drop out)
Career Highlights

1997
Tommy Jeans America Tour 2 week / 8 city cross country bus tour.
1999 - Seamless (USA)
Lead actor as JB, fashion store manager by day and DJ by night, who took in street kids to show them the right path of life. Shannon Elizabeth as co-actress.
1999 - Osaka Story (Japan)
Appeared as a toy seller in the movie.
2000 - Best Springs in the World, Festival of Sun and Flower at Cote D’zul (NHK, Japan)
Featured celebrity on this TV travel programme.
2000 - SOTOKOTO Magazine Teijin Life @ Safari (J-Wave station)
Featured celebrity DJ.
2000 - Emergency Hospital (Fuji TV Series)
Acted as one f the patients who is a talented painter.
2000 - Day Dream
Directed, produced, wrote and acted his very first movie.
2001 - The Bleep Brothers
Offbeat comedy where Kentaro played one of the brothers who enjoyed success as a dirty jokes comedian.

2001 - Dreams Come True
Appeared in this famous band’s MTV, song name 24/7.
2005 - Deathrance
Action movie based on a computer game, directed by a renowned director, Yuji Shimomura.
2005 - Sound Garage
Co-VJ in TV music programme that features up and coming indies rock bands.
2007
Tenshin Club, Los Angeles (Opening in late 2007).
2009
Tenshin Dojo,TORRANCE (Opening in May 2009).
AYAKO FUJITANI



Biography:
Ayako Fujitani was born on December 7, 1979 in Osaka,Japan.
Her father is action movie star Steven Seagal and her mother is an Aikido instructor.
She appeared in her first TV commercial at the age of 13 and made her film debut in 1993 in the Japanese monster movie "Gamera".
Her unique looks lead her to become a model regularly featured in "Young Jump", a popular weekly comic magazine.
After "Gamera 2", Fujitani moved to Hollywood to live with her father and to improve her English.
While attending school there, she began writing articles and reviews for japanese magazines about the Hollywood movies she watched.
She returned to Japan and continued her acting career, starring in "Shiki-Jitsu", which was based on her original novel "Touhimu".
The movie is directed by Hideaki Anno, of "Evangelion" and "Love & Pop" fame.
She acts aside Shunji Iwai, who is also a well-known Japanese director himself.
Aside from theatrical and cinema work as an actress, and a variety of performances as an artist, she is also an accomplished writer, regularly publishing essays and short stories in several magazines, and is currently writing her next novels.


At age 12, Ayako won the Asian Beauty Contest, held in commemoration of the Japanese release of the film Police Story 3. At age 13 she became the 6th girl to lead the prestigious Mitsui ReHouse advertising campaign. This sparked off her career as a model, featuring regularly in magazines and television commecials.
An avid fan of film, she made her screen debut and appeared in the sequels of the Heisei Gamera (1995-1999) series, after a chance meeting at a film festival with director Shusuke Kaneko. She worked again with him on an episode he directed of Ultraman Max.
Along with writer and director Hideaki Anno, Ayako co-adapted her own novella, Touhimu (Flee-Dream), into the film Shiki-Jitsu in 2000; it was the first non-animated feature released by Studio Ghibli under the Studio Kajino label. She also stars in the title role. Shiki-Jitsu won the Artistic Award at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival and showed at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Other film roles include parts in the French film Sansa (2003) and in Michel Gondry's Interior Design segment of Tokyo! (2008).
In 2006 she directed a short drama for TV Tokyo's Drama Factory program. Ayako has also displayed musical talent, being a member of the band Father's Girls.
After spending a few teenage years in Los Angeles studying acting and English, Ayako began to write for the Japanese magazine Roadshow. Her literary skills became more evident with the publication of her coupled novellas Touhimu (Flee-Dream) and Yakeinu (Burnt Dog). The former is often incorrectly referred to as semi-biographical, though it is a completely fictional story of a young suicidal girl trying to make sense of life, death, family, and love. The latter is the story of the relationship between a man and the girl he has raised in his cellar.
Ayako has since established herself as an accomplished writer in Japan of both fiction and non-fiction, regularly contributing essays and short stories to various national publications. She is currently busy writing her next novels.
Hair:
BIack
Eyes:
Brown
Height:
5'4 ft (164cm)
Weight:
105 lb (47kg)
Filmography:
Tôkyô! (2008) .... Hiroko (Lead Actress)
Death of Domomata (2007) .... Hanada (Supporting Actress)
Captain Tokio (2007) .... Queen
Private Eye No. 5 (2006) .... Honjo Azusa
lkusa (2005) .... Kimo
Sansa (2003) (France) .... June (Supporting Actress)
Shiki-Jitsu (2001) aka Ritual (International title) .... No name (Lead Actress)
Maguro no Shippo : A Tuna Fin (2000) .... Hibiki Kajiwara
The Patriot (2000) (U.S.) .... McClaren's Assistant
Gamera 3 (1998) .... Aki Kusanagi (Supporting Actress)
Gamera 2 (1995) .... Aki Kusanagi (Supporting Actress)
Musashi (1995) .... Nurse Saki (Supporting Actress)
Gamera (1993) .... Aki Kusanagi (Supporting Actress)

Theatrical Works:
The Black Cat (based on Edgar Allen Poe's short story) (December 2008)
Kung Fu John (2007)
ROPE (2006)
Hiking for Human Life (2005)
Literary Works:
"Touhimu" Flee-Dreamer (novella, coupled with "Yakeinu" Burnt Dog)
"Roadshow" (movie magazine, "Hollywood Report")
"Pee Wee" (fashion magazine, "Hyougennsha Aruku" Expressionist Walking)
"Eiga Hihou" (movie magazine, "Fujitani Ayako no Eiga de Ponn!" Ayako Fujitani's Silver Screen Stuff)
"Re:S" (art magazine, regular short story column "Utsushiyo Hyakkichou" Memos on Life)
Special Skills:
Aikido(Japanese Martial Art)
Japanese: Standard & Kansai dialect

Adrienne La Russa

Born in 15 May 1948, Is a New York City-born Italian-American actress, most known for her role as Brooke Hamilton on Days of our Lives, which she played from 1975 to 1977.
She also made a few guest appearances on television in the late 70s and early 80s and she had a supporting role in the miniseries, Centennial. La Russa played Clemma Zent, the tempestuous daughter of series protagonists Levi and Lucinda Zent.
She was married to Steven Seagal (1984-1987) (annulled)

Kelly LeBrock
Born 24 March 1960 Is an actor, model, and 1980s sex symbol known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red, co-starring with comedian Gene Wilder, and the film Weird Science, directed by John Hughes.

Kelly LeBrock was born in New York City, New York but raised in London, England and in the countryside in Sussex. She is the daughter of a French-Canadian father who owned his own quicksilver mine and opened "The General Thurber", a 3-star Michelin restaurant in Lake Champlain, New York. Kelly's Irish mother, a former model, was the owner of fine antique stores in London.[1] LeBrock spent her early school days in a Montreal boarding school, gaining fluency in French, before moving to Great Britain. At the age of sixteen, Kelly returned to New York and started her career as a high fashion and beauty model. Her first marriage was to film producer and restaurateur Victor Drai in 1984, divorcing in 1986. Married to action star Steven Seagal from 1987 - 1996, LeBrock has three children, Annaliza (b. 1987), Dominic (b. 1990) and Arissa (b. 1993) Until recently, she had suspended her acting career in favor of family life on a ranch in Southern California and invested in real estate. She has since returned to acting while working on her autobiography.
LeBrock was the quintessential 80's sex symbol, frequently cast as the "perfect" or "fantasy" woman in films such as The Woman in Red (1984) and John Hughes' Weird Science (1985). In 1985, Kelly LeBrock was awarded the ShoWest award for "Female Star of Tomorrow". In 1990, she starred opposite then-husband Steven Seagal in Hard to Kill. LeBrock also appeared in Betrayal of the Dove (1993), Tracks of a Killer (1995), and Hard Bounty (1995).
After her divorce from Seagal in 1996, she continued living on the ranch outside Los Angeles.[3] She had roles in the film Wrongfully Accused (1998), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002), and the film Zerophilia (2005). In 2006, LeBrock starred in Gamers: The Movie. LeBrock is currently in the pre-production stage of the movie The Tambourine Mare as a co-author of the story.
Annaliza Seagal
Daughter of actor Stephen Seagal and actor/model Kelly LeBrock
Born in 1987
Son . Dominic San Rocco Seagal: born on June 21, 1990 and

Daughter Arissa Seagal: born on July 24, 1993




Arissa Wolf
Born Iin 1975, former nanny to Seagal's and Kelly LeBrock's children.
Arisa Wolf
1995 - Not married with Steven


Seagal and Arissa Wolf have one daughter, Savannah.
Savannah Seagal: Born in 2 september 1996.

Arrisa, Steven and Savannah.
In addition to his biological children, Seagal's Tibetan Buddhist beliefs have also placed him in the role of guardian to a Tibetan child, Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo. Rinzinwangmo, or "Renji", is the only child of the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet. Renji studied in the United States at American University, and Seagal was her guardian and bodyguard.
In 1987, Seagal began work on his first film, Above the Law (titled Nico in Europe), with director Andrew Davis and reportedly as a favor to a former aikido student, the agent Michael Ovitz, who believed he could make anyone a star.[7] Following its success, Seagal made three more movies – Hard to Kill, Marked for Death, and Out for Justice – that were box office hits, making him an action hero. Later, he achieved wider, mainstream success in 1992 with the release of Under Siege (1992). That film reunited Seagal with director Andrew Davis, and was a blockbuster in the U.S. and abroad, grossing $156.4 million worldwide.[8]
Seagal then directed On Deadly Ground (1994). This film, in which he also starred, emphasized environmental and spiritual themes, signaling a break with his previous persona as a genre-ready inner-city cop. The film featured Michael Caine and a small role by Billy Bob Thornton.
Following the general critical disappointment of On Deadly Ground, [9] Seagal filmed a sequel to one of his most successful films Under Siege titled Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) and cop drama The Glimmer Man (1996). In 1996, he had his first supporting role, in the Kurt Russell film Executive Decision (1996), which featured him in a starring role, but kept secret the fate of his character, who was killed in the film's first act. He subsequently made another environmentally-conscious film, Fire Down Below (1997), wherein he was an EPA agent fighting industrialists dumping toxic waste in the Kentucky hills, but the movie was commercially unsuccessful. This film ended his original multi-picture contract with Warner Bros.
The next year, Seagal made The Patriot, another environmental thriller which was his first direct-to-video release in the United States (though it was released theatrically in most of the world). Seagal produced this film with his own money, and the film was shot on-location on and near his farm in Montana.
After producing Prince of Central Park, Seagal returned to cinema screens with the release of Exit Wounds in March 2001. The film had fewer martial arts scenes than Seagal's previous films, but it was a commercial success, taking almost $80 million worldwide. However, he was unable to capitalize on this success and his next two projects were both critical and commercial failures. Ticker co-starring Tom Sizemore and Dennis Hopper, and filmed in San Francisco before Exit Wounds, went straight to DVD while Half Past Dead, starring rap star Ja Rule, made less than $20 million worldwide.

Steven Seagal
As of May 2008, all of the films Seagal has made since the second half of 2001 have been released direct-to-video (DTV) in North America, with only limited theatrical releases in the rest of the world. Seagal is credited as a producer and sometimes a writer on many of these DTV movies, which include Black Dawn, Belly of the Beast, Out of Reach, Submerged, Kill Switch, Urban Justice, Pistol Whipped, Against the Dark, Driven to Kill and The Keeper for a projected 2009 release.
Regarding his career, Seagal has stated, "I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol."[10] Seagal has clarified the purpose of his films: "Above the Law was a politically conscientious movie. On Deadly Ground was environmentally conscientious so I want to keep making movies like that which are more geared with a certain entertainment value but also bring people forward into contemplation."[11]
Seagal has described his activism method as "shaming companies into changing," a theme that is visible in such films as On Deadly Ground and Fire Down Below. He has worked with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to discourage the fur trade, and has written to the Prime Minister of India to seek increased legal protection for cows. Seagal worked effectively towards saving dogs destined to drown in Taiwan.
In 1999 Seagal was awarded a PETA Humanitarian Award.[20] In 2003, Seagal wrote an open letter to the leadership of Thailand, urging them to enact law to prevent the torture of baby elephants.[21]
Outside of his film work, Seagal has volunteered, lending his voice as a narrator for an activist film project, Medicine Lake Video, which seeks to protect sacred tribal ground near his ranch in Siskiyou County.