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Born Jean Claude Camille Francois Van Varenberg on October 18, 1960, in http://www.answers.com/topic/flanders-dutch-speaking-region-of-northern-Belgium, Belgium, and raised in http://www.answers.com/topic/brussels, Van Damme came to the US in 1981, with no English and no friends. He worked as a chauffeur, a carpet layer, a Pizza deliverer, a trainer, and a http://www.answers.com/topic/bouncer, before he finally started to find roles in very low-budget films. He finally got his break when he made Bloodsport, a film shot in http://www.answers.com/topic/hong-kong on a meager $1.5 million budget, which was so bad that he finally helped to recut it himself, and begged producers to release it. When they did, it became the US box office hit of that summer, and Van Damme was a star.

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