Dolph Lundgren
Hans Lundgren (born 3 November 1957), better known as Dolph Lundgren, is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. Lundgren's breakthrough came in 1985, when he starred in Rocky IV as the imposing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago. Since then, he has starred in more than 69 films, almost all of them in the action genre. Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982. He holds the rank of 4th dan black belt in Kyokushin karate and was European champion in 1980–81. While in Sydney, he became a bodyguard for Jamaican singer Grace Jones and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with her and begin acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgren got a small debut role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. After appearing in Rocky IV, Lundgren portrayed He-Man in the 1987 science fantasy film Masters of the Universe, Lt. Rachenko in Red Scorpion (1988) and Frank Castle in the 1989 film The Punisher. Throughout the 1990s he appeared in films such as I Come in Peace (1990), Cover Up (1991), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Universal Soldier film series (1992, 2009, 2012), Joshua Tree (1993), Pentathlon (1994), Men of War (1994), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), The Shooter (1995), Silent Trigger (1996), The Peacekeeper (1997), and Blackjack (1998). In 2004 he directed his first film, The Defender, and subsequently directed The Mechanik (2005), Missionary Man (2007), Command Performance (2009), and Icarus (2010), also starring in all of them. After a long spell performing in direct-to-video films since 1995, Lundgren returned to Hollywood in 2010 with the role of Gunnar Jensen in The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone and an all-action star cast. He reprised his role in The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014). Also in 2014, he co-starred in Skin Trade, an action thriller about human trafficking he co-wrote and produced. He reprised his role of Ivan Drago in Creed II (2018), and is due to reprise his role as Gunner Jensen in The Expendables 4. He appears in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017), playing the protagonist's son Gil as an adult, and in Aquaman (2018), playing the father of Mera. He also had a recurring role in the fifth season of Arrow.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Wanted Man as Travis Johansen
- 2024 · Flip a Cöin as Self - Host
- 2023 · Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom as King Nereus
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Claude Luc Hallyday
- 2023 · Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023 · Expend4bles as Gunner Jensen
- 2023 · Come Out Fighting as Major Chase Anderson
- 2023 · The Family Stallone as Self
- 2023 · The Best Man as Anders
- 2023 · Jean-Claude van Damme: Karate King as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Operation Seawolf as Hans Kessler
- 2022 · Section 8 as Tom Mason
- 2022 · Minions: The Rise of Gru as Svengeance (voice)
- 2021 · Castle Falls as Richard Ericson
- 2021 · Pups Alone as Victor von Manure
- 2021 · The Making of 'Rocky vs. Drago' as Ivan Drago (archive footage)
- 2021 · Seal Team as Dolph (voice)
- 2021 · Carina Bergfeldt as Self - Guest
- 2020 · The Art of Action as Self
- 2019 · Hard Night Falling as Michael Anderson
- 2019 · One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz as Self
- 2019 · Acceleration as Vladik
- 2019 · The Tracker as Aiden Hakansson
- 2018 · Aquaman as King Nereus
- 2018 · Creed II as Ivan Drago
- 2018 · Black Water as Marco
- 2017 · Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking as Self
- 2017 · Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe as Self - Actor
- 2017 · Sharknado 5: Global Swarming as Mature Gil Shepard
- 2017 · Dead Trigger as Kyle Walker
- 2017 · Tour de Pharmacy as Gustav Ditters Present Day
- 2017 · Altitude as Sharpe
- 2017 · Female Fight Squad as Holt
- 2017 · Larceny as Jack
- 2016 · Welcome to Willits as Derek
- 2016 · Don't Kill It as Jebediah Woodley
- 2016 · Kindergarten Cop 2 as Agent Reed
- 2016 · Hail, Caesar! as Submarine Commander (uncredited)
- 2015 · From Rocky to Creed: The Legacy Continues as Self
- 2015 · Shark Lake as Clint Gray
- 2015 · Riot as William
- 2015 · 4Got10 as Bob Rooker
- 2015 · War Pigs as Captain Hans Picault
- 2015 · 7 Days in Hell as Dolph Lundgren
- 2015 · The Real Miyagi as Self
- 2014 · The Making of The Expendables 3 as Self
- 2014 · Skin Trade as Nick Cassidy
- 2014 · Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Self - Actor
- 2014 · The Expendables 3 as Gunner Jensen
- 2014 · Puncture Wounds as Hollis
- 2013 · @midnight with Chris Hardwick as Self - Guest Appearance
- 2013 · Blood of Redemption as Axel
- 2013 · Ambushed as Maxwell
- 2013 · SAF3 as John Eriksson
- 2013 · Battle of the Damned as Max Gatling
- 2013 · Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon as Harker
- 2013 · Days of Reckoning: The Making of Universal Soldier 4 as Self
- 2012 · Gods of War: Assembling Earth's Mightiest Anti-Heroes as Self
- 2012 · The Package as The German
- 2012 · Arrow as Konstantin Kovar
- 2012 · Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning as Andrew Scott
- 2012 · One in the Chamber as Aleksey Andreev
- 2012 · The Expendables 2 as Gunner Jensen
- 2012 · The Eric Andre Show as Self
- 2012 · Stash House as Andy Spector
- 2012 · Small Apartments as Dr. Sage Mennox
- 2012 · All Out of Bullets as
- 2011 · The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance as Self
- 2011 · In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds as Granger
- 2011 · Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell as Self
- 2010 · Top Gear as
- 2010 · Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' as Self
- 2010 · Hellenius Hörna as Self - Guest
- 2010 · The Expendables as Gunner Jensen
- 2010 · 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)
- 2010 · Casino Jack and the United States of Money as Lt. Nikolai Rachenko (archive footage)
- 2010 · Icarus as Edward Genn / Icarus
- 2009 · Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side as Ivan Dragon (voice)
- 2009 · Universal Soldier: Regeneration as Andrew Scott
- 2009 · Command Performance as Joe
- 2009 · Direct Your Own Damn Movie! as Self
- 2009 · Direct Contact as Mike Riggins
- 2009 · Skavlan as Self - Guest
- 2007 · Missionary Man as Ryder
- 2007 · Chuck as Marco
- 2007 · The Final Inquiry as Brixos
- 2007 · L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII as Brixos
- 2007 · Diamond Dogs as Xander Ronson
- 2006 · The Opponents as Self / Ivan Drago
- 2006 · Robins as Self - Guest
- 2006 · I Love the '70s: Volume 2 as Self
- 2005 · The Russian Specialist as Nikolai Cherenko
- 2005 · It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as John Thundergun
- 2005 · Hell's Kitchen as Self - Restaurant Patron
- 2005 · Oyama Karate Kyokushinkai as
- 2004 · The Defender as Lance Rockford
- 2004 · Retrograde as John Foster
- 2004 · Universal Soldier: A Tale of Two Titans as Himself
- 2004 · Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of 'Universal Soldier' as Himself
- 2004 · Fat Slags as Randy
- 2004 · Direct Action as Frank Gannon
- 2003 · Detention as Sam Decker
- 2002 · Through the Night with... as Self
- 2001 · Hidden Agenda as Jason Price
- 2000 · Agent Red as Matt Hendricks
- 2000 · The Last Patrol as Nick Preston
- 2000 · Jill Rips as Matt Sorenson
- 1999 · Storm Catcher as Major Jack Holloway
- 1999 · Family Guy as Captain Ivan Drago (archive footage)
- 1999 · Bridge of Dragons as Warchild
- 1998 · Sweepers as Christian Erickson
- 1998 · The Minion as Lukas Sadorov
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 1998 · Blackjack as Jack Devlin
- 1997 · The Peacekeeper as Frank Cross
- 1996 · Silent Trigger as Waxman
- 1995 · The Shooter as Michael Dane
- 1995 · Johnny Mnemonic as Street Preacher
- 1994 · Men of War as Nick Gunar
- 1994 · Pentathlon as Eric Brogar
- 1994 · Sunny Side Up as Dolph Lundgren
- 1993 · Joshua Tree as Wellman Anthony Santee
- 1993 · GMTV as Self
- 1992 · Universal Soldier as Andrew Scott / GR13
- 1991 · Showdown in Little Tokyo as Sgt. Chris Kenner
- 1991 · Cover-Up as Mike Anderson
- 1990 · Dark Angel as Det. Jack Caine
- 1989 · The Punisher as Frank Castle / The Punisher
- 1988 · Red Scorpion as Lt. Nikolai Rachenko
- 1987 · Dolph Lundgren: Maximum Potential as Himself
- 1987 · The Dame Edna Experience as Self
- 1987 · Masters of the Universe as He-Man
- 1986 · The Making of Captain EO as Self
- 1986 · Wedden, dat..? as Self
- 1985 · Rocky IV as Ivan Drago
- 1985 · A View to a Kill as Venz
- 1982 · Na sowas! as Self
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1963 · Das aktuelle Sportstudio as self
- 1959 · Melodifestivalen as Self
- 2024 · Dolph as Self
- 2024 · Hellfire as Wiley
- 2024 · Malevolence as Miles
- 2024 · Drago as Ivan Drago
- 2024 · Fight Or Flight as
- 2024 · Mutant: Year Zero as (voice)
- 2024 · Mutant: Year Zero as
- 2024 · The Groom 2 as
- 2024 · Without You I'm Nothing as George Cochrane
- 2024 · Taming The Beast as Self
- 2024 · The Witcher Rats spinoff as Brehen