Hollywood celebrity Steven Seagal is a man of many talents. He excelled in acting, in music, and in martial arts, although he is known to the general public mainly in his screen role – a kind of imperturbable fighter against world crime. He plays mainly in action movies, where he can fully realize his sporting potential, and it should be noted that he succeeds in this.
The roots of the actor are not known for certain. Only one thing has been established: his paternal ancestors come from Russia, probably ethnic Mongols, Buryats or Kalmyks. Seagal himself says that his grandfather was a Mongol from the USSR. He has roots in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Stephen Segal’s grandmother is from Vladivostok. The actor has three sisters. He started karate at the age of seven. Stephen was a difficult teenager, and his favorite activities were street fights.
At age 17, Stephen Seagal moved to Japan to study Aikido. There he met a Japanese woman, who became the mother of his first two children. He lived in this country for ten years. He became the first American to discover a dojo in the Land of the Rising Sun — a place to learn martial arts and spiritual practices. The actor was married four times, he has seven children. In 2016, Steven Seagal received Russian citizenship, and the passport was handed to him personally by V. Putin. He also has an American and Serbian passport. In the US, he is widely known not only as an actor, but also as a blues music performer. Moreover, his vocation, he believes it is music, and about the movie says “this is just a hobby.” By religion Steven Seagal is a Buddhist.
He is fluent in Japanese. Segal’s acting career began in Japan. He later transferred his martial arts school to the United States, where he continued to develop as a film actor. On the set of the film “Man of Honor”, the film suddenly ended in funding. Then Stephen Seagal decided to act not only as an actor, but also as a director, and paid a million dollars of personal money as the salary of a film crew. The actor has repeatedly stated publicly that in a past life he was a lama. No, it is not the animal lama that is meant, but an enlightened Buddhist monk and teacher. And the Tibetan lamas have confirmed this. Steven Seagal’s personal collection includes over a thousand weapons. He is silent about how this hobby is linked to the peace-loving teachings of Buddhism. One day, Seagal accidentally broke his wrist to famous actor Sean Connery, giving him an aikido lesson. He owns a company that produces energy drinks under the brand “Steven Seagal”.
He married the second wife without divorcing the first one properly. When it surfaced, followed the scandal, the court and the gap. Once Seagal was going to buy a Moldavian football club, and in the vicinity of Chisinau to build a local analogue of Hollywood. Alas, his plans did not come true. In 2009, during an interview, he said that he was Russian, and then he loved Russia and the people living in this country. Seagal’s film “In Deadly Peril”, where he played the main role and was the director, was nominated for three anti-awards “Golden Raspberry” – the worst film, the worst actor, the worst director. Kalmykia gave the actor the title of honorary citizen of this republic. Despite the fact that Stephen Seagal is a Buddhist, he donated significant sums for the restoration of Orthodox monasteries in Moldova. One of the actor’s strange hobbies is the cultivation of silkworms, which he then sells at the Ebay online auction site.
