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Birth Name:
Steven Seagal
Birth Place:
Lansing, Michigan, USA
Ethnicity:
Irish, Mongolian and Jewish-Russian
The Film director and actor was born to an Irish Catholic mother, Patricia and a Jewish Russian father, Stephen. Seagal also has a Mongolian grandfather who was either of Kalmyk or Buryat descent. Seagal mentioned this in a Russian interview.
Rumor has it that Seagal once claimed to be half-Italian, perhaps to better associate with the mob. He was born in Lansing Michiga and grew up in California where he first learned martial arts.
He lived in Japan for a number of years and speaks Japanese fluently. He was married to a Japanese woman and has two children by her. He is also a devout Buddhist.
Source:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/scams/steven_seagal/index.html
http://savetibet.ru/2007/12/17/steven_seagal.html
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To me he looks like the real red Indian witch is real American, but I like him and I like his movies.
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To me he looks like real America. Red Indian witch those are the real Americ, but Jewish I never thought. But I like him and I like his moves.
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looks 100% jewish to me
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OMG, I never knew that. I am Kalmyk. Happy to hear that the hero of my childhood movies is 25 % kalmyk!
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I though he was half native american
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he said that once….. but no one wanted to believe him
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Hear him speak about Russian roots at 3 minutes. http://www.russia.ru/video/2045_11978/
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And also here at 0:40 http://www.russia.ru/video/segal_7622/
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Well hes a master ive studied for years ive been martial arts for 8 years now and im test for my black belt in 2 months i would really like too meet steven seagal someday
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seems he got good parts from both race, caucasian and east asian. a tall and wide body from caucasian side, some stoic facial parts from east asian side. that mixed looks flatters him the martial artist actor.
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He’s also a devout Buddhist.
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That would make him …………hmmmm…… by rayshal
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he looks south european to me
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