Biography
Steven Seagal is an American actor, producer, martial artist and musician. Born on 10 April 1952 in Lansing, Michigan, he holds a 7th-dan black belt in aikido. He began his adult career as an aikido instructor in Japan, where he became the first non-Japanese person to operate an aikido dojo.
Seagal made his film debut in Above the Law (1988). He starred as Casey Ryback in Under Siege (1992), which he also produced, and reprised the role in the 1995 sequel. He later appeared as Jonathan Cold in The Foreigner (2003), which he also produced. His later career has included numerous direct-to-video films.
