Trivia

Birth name: Steven Seagal

Date of birth: 10 April 1951 

Place of birth: Lansing, Michigan, USA 

Nickname: The Great One 

Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m)

Spouse: Kelly LeBrock, (5 September 1987 - 1996) (divorced) 3 children, Adrienne La Russa, (1984 - 1984) (annulled), Miyako Fujitani, (1975 - 1986) (divorced) 2 children.

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.

Has been married 3 times

Has three children with Kelly LeBrock: Annaliza, Dominick, and Arissa.

Is an Aikido-master - 7th Dan.

Father of Kentaro Seagal and Ayako Fujitani.

Is a vegetarian.

Seagal's love of guitar and appreciation of rasta music led him to study with teacher in Jamaica, where he owns a vacation home.

His Santa Inez home includes 200 acres planted with cabernet grapes, which is then sold to wineries.

Master in Japanese Kendo

Has been a bodyguard

Broke Sean Connery's wrist when he was teaching him martial arts during the filming of Never Say Never Again (1983).

Is King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden's favourite actor and also his friend.

His first seven films were all starring roles, ending with "Executive Decision" (1996).

Is good friends with Jackie Chan.

Is a singer and guitarist. In 2005, he released an album titled "Songs from the Crystal Cave".

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.

Many of Seagal's movies from the 1990s feature Aikido wrist locks and throws, often shot in close up detail, emphasizing technical correctness. 

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.

In all of his films, he is seen holding a Colt M1911 automatic pistol. He owns several in his private 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."

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)

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.

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.

His Santa Inez home includes 200 acres planted with cabernet grapes, which he contracts a winery to distill.

In 2003 it was revealed that Seagal was a victim of extortion from the Gambino crime family due to his relationship with hollywood producer Jules Nasso who had mob connections. 

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.

Marketing an energy drink known as Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt. 

Seagal is a practicing Buddhist. In 1997, one of his teachers, Penor Rinpoche, proclaimed him a tulku, a reincarnation of a Tibetan lama. 

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