Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish on-screen character, executive, screenwriter, maker, and military craftsman. He is best referred to for his job as Heavy armament specialist Jensen in The Expendables motion pictures. He depicted He-Man in the 1987 science dream film Experts of the Universe and Honest Château in the 1989 film The Punisher.
He is best known for his job as Heavy armament specialist Jensen in The Expendables motion pictures. He depicted He-Man in the 1987 science dream film Experts of the Universe and Honest Château in the 1989 film The Punisher.
Dolph Lundgren was born as Hans Lundgren on 3 November 1957, in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. His nationality is Swedish and he is of Swedish ethnicity. He is the child of Sigrid Birgitta, a dialect instructor, and Karl Johan Hugo Lundgren, a designer, and financial specialist for the Swedish government. Dolph started practicing martial at the age of seven. He lived in Spånga until the age of 13. From that point forward, he moved to his grandparents' home in Nyland,
Ångermanland.His father died in 2000. He has two sisters; Katharina Lundgren and Annika Lundgren and one older brother Johan Lundgren. After completing high school, Lundgren moved to the United States and got himself enrolled at ‘Washington State University’ and then at ‘Clemson University’ to study chemical engineering. In the late 70s, he returned to Sweden as he had to mandatorily serve a year in ‘Swedish Marine Corps.’ He then received his chemical engineering degree from ‘Royal Institute of Technology,’ Stockholm. He later moved to New York City with Grace Jones who had hired him as a bodyguard but the two became lovers. He studied drama at the Warren Robertson Theatre Workshop. He later quit studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after two weeks to pursue acting.
Dolph has two sisters and a more seasoned sibling. In the wake of moving on from secondary school, he selected at Washington State College and graduated with a degree in science. From that point onward, he a degree in the synthetic building from the Regal Establishment of Innovation in the mid-1980s, and a graduate degree in compound designing from the College of Sydney in 1982. He holds the rank of third dan dark belt in Kyokushin Karate and was a European victory in 1980-81.
Lundgren got to debut a role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond film, ‘A View to a Kill’, in which Grace Jones starred, the time when Lundgren was having an affair with Jones. His breakthrough came in 1985 when he starred in Rocky IV as the imposing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, Dolph has starred in more than 40 films, In 1987, he portrayed He-Man in the science fantasy film Masters of the Universe, Red Scorpion (1988) and Frank Castle in the 1989 film The Punisher. In the 1990s he appeared in films such as Dark Angel (1990), Cover-Up (1991), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Joshua Tree (1993), Pentathlon (1994), Men of War (1994), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), The Shooter (1995) and Blackjack (1998).
Lundgren directed his first film, The Defender in 2004 and subsequently directed The Mechanik (2005), Missionary Man (2007), Command Performance (2009), and Icarus (2010), also starring in all of them. He portrayed Gunner Jensen in The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone and an all-action star cast in 2010. In 2012, he reprised his role in The Expendables 2, The Expendables 3 (2014) and The Expendables 4 (2020). Also in 2014, he co-starred in Skin Trade, an action thriller that he co-wrote and produced and is about human trafficking. He appeared in Sharknado 5, Global Swarming (2017), playing the protagonist’s son Gil as an adult.
In 2018, he was cast in a host of films like ‘Black Water,’ ‘The Tracker,’ ‘Pups Alone: A Christmas Peril,’ and ‘Creed II,’ in which he reprised his role as the mighty fighter Ivan Drago. Lundgren continues to appear tirelessly in films as he performs various characters that often showcase challenging stunts on the screen.
He has starred and directed in several blockbuster Hollywood movies. He holds the rank of 3rd dan black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980-81. Dolph was selected by the U.S. Olympic Committee to serve as the Team Leader of the 1996 U.S. Olympic Pentathlon Team during the Atlanta Games.
He has total assets of $15 million yet his pay isn't uncovered yet.
Dolph Lundgren is a divorced man at the present time. Lundgren has been married twice. His first marriage was to Peri Momm in 1991 but They got divorced after a year of their relationship. He then married Anette Qviberg, a jewelry designer and fashion stylist, in Marbella in 1994. They have two daughters: Ida Sigrid Lundgren and Greta Eveline Lundgren, both born in Stockholm. The couple however divorced in 2011.
He is rumored to have relationships with Jamaican singer Grace Jones and the American model Paula Barbieri before marriage. After his divorce with his wife, he began dating Jenny Sanderson in mid-2011. The couple broke up in 2014. Since then, he has no records of his relationship until now. According to the records, he is possibly single at the present time.
Dolph has a tallness of 6 feet 5 inches and weighs 110 kg. His hair shading is fair and eye shading is blue. He wears a shoe size of 12(US).
He has more than 3.9 million supporters on his Facebook account, more than 226k adherents on his twitter account and more than 1.6 million devotees on his Instagram account.