Steven Seagal earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance in the film, but lost against Marlon Brando for The Island of Dr. Moreau.

It's also the only Seagal movie to receive Academy Awards nomination ( though it did not win ).

On Deadly Ground was nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor ( Steven Seagal ), Worst Actress ( Joan Chen ), Worst Screenplay and Worst Original Song (" Under the Same Sun "), with Seagal " winning " Worst Director.

* Worst Actor-Steven Seagal ( lost to Kevin Costner for The Postman )

* Actor Steven Seagal once lived in Eltingville.

As Jacob Sapir could not provide for his family, Sapir's mother, Eva Seagal Sapir, opened a shop to supply the basic necessities.

* Machete is a 2010 film by Robert Rodriguez, named for the character played by Danny Trejo, also starring Steven Seagal and Robert De Niro.

Following its success, Seagal made three more movies – Hard to Kill, Marked for Death, and Out for Justice – that were box office hits, making him an action hero.

Outside of his film work, Seagal has volunteered, lending his voice as a narrator for an activist film project, Medicine Lake Video, which seeks to protect sacred tribal ground near his ranch in Siskiyou County.

Seagal supposedly studied Obeah, a West Indian term for black magic rituals in depth to make the film.

* Steven Seagal as Chief Casey Ryback, a former Navy SEAL who lost his security clearance after a botched mission in Panama and now serves as the personal cook for the captain of the USS Missouri.

Out for Justice is a 1991 action film directed by John Flynn and starring Steven Seagal, in which a veteran police detective vows to kill the crazy, drug-addicted mafioso who murdered his partner.

Furthermore, Seagal is not cited in the opening credits, but Seagal's image was used heavily in advertising for the movie due to his enormous popularity to movie goers.

Steven Seagal wrote two original songs for the film, " Bulletproof " and " Snake ", performed by the Jeff Healey Band and Taj Mahal, respectively.

Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá, starring Steven Seagal as an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights ; co-starring Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, and Stephen Lang, the film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt, and country-rocker and The Band member Levon Helm.

The film was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, and stars Steven Seagal as an urban detective notorious for pushing the limits of the law in his quest for justice.

Sascha Petrosevitch ( Steven Seagal ) is a car thief who's brought in by criminal Nick Frazier ( Jeffrey " Ja Rule " Atkins ) to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall ( Richard Bremmer ), who apparently shot and killed Sascha's wife.

Such films can cost as much as $ 20 million ( about a third of the average cost of a Hollywood release ) Some direct-to-video releases also feature moderately well-known actors, such as Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, and Cuba Gooding, Jr .. Salaries for such actors range from $ 2 to $ 4 million ( Van Damme ) to $ 4. 5 to $ 10 million ( Seagal ).

Margulies's first movie role was as a prostitute looking to go straight in the Steven Seagal film Out for Justice.

Bensonhurst was stereotyped as a haven for Mafia members ( Gus Farace, a reputed mob associate suspected of murdering a federal drug-enforcement agent, was found shot to death in a parked car there on November 17, 1989, and two years later the neighborhood provided the setting for the mob-themed film Out for Justice starring Steven Seagal & is known as the hometown of notorious soap opera Hospital mobster, Sonny Cortinthos.

In 1987, Seagal began work on his first film, Above the Law ( titled Nico in Europe ), with director Andrew Davis and reportedly as a favor to a former aikido student, the agent Michael Ovitz, who believed he could make anyone a star.

In November 2008, A & E announced that they had begun taping Steven Seagal: Lawman, which follows his work in the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

Seagal stated that " I ’ ve decided to work with A & E on this series now because I believe it ’ s important to show the nation all the positive work being accomplished here in Louisiana — to see the passion and commitment that comes from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff ’ s Office in this post-Katrina environment.

Prior to publishing his first original works of fiction, Pressfield wrote several Hollywood screenplays, most notably 1988's Above the Law starring Steven Seagal and directed by Andrew Davis, 1992 ’ s Freejack, a work of science fiction starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, and Anthony Hopkins, and 1993's Joshua Tree ( a. k. a. Army Of One ) starring Dolph Lundgren and George Segal.

Half Past Dead 2 was released direct to video in 2007, though it did not star Steven Seagal or Ja Rule.

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

In November 2010, Ferrigno was sworn in as a member of a Maricopa County, Arizona volunteer sheriff posse, which also includes actors Steven Seagal and Peter Lupus, in order to help control illegal immigration in the Phoenix Valley area.

Hollywood has also participated in the genre with actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Brandon Lee ( son of Bruce Lee ), Wesley Snipes, Gary Daniels, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Statham.

Stern-faced martial artist Steven Seagal made a number of films.

Steven Frederic Seagal ( born April 10, 1952 ) is an American action film star, producer, writer, martial artist, guitarist and reserve deputy sheriff.

A 7th-dan black belt in Aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an Aikido instructor in Japan.

As of 2011, he's currently busy with the third season of his reality show Steven Seagal: Lawman.

Seagal is also a recording artist and guitarist and the founder of Steven Seagal Enterprises.

Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, where he lived until he was five years old.

His mother, Patricia ( 1930 – 2003 ), was a medical technician, and his father, Samuel Steven Seagal ( 1928 – 1991 ), was a high school math teacher.

His parents relocated to Fullerton, California, where Seagal attended Buena Park High School in Buena Park.

Seagal moved to Japan in his late teens and became the first foreigner to operate an aikido dojo in Japan.

He continued to train in aikido as a student of Seiseki Abe, Koichi Tohei ( whose aikido organization, Ki Society, Seagal refused to join in favor of staying with the Aikikai ), Kisaburo Osawa, Hiroshi Isoyama and the second doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba.

Seagal is known by his students as Take Sensei.

When Seagal left his dojo in Osaka, his then-wife Miyako became the caretaker of the dojo which has continued to the present day.

Seagal initially returned to Taos, New Mexico, with his student ( and later film stuntman ) Craig Dunn, where they opened a dojo, although Seagal spent much of his time pursuing other ventures.

After another period in Japan, Seagal returned to the U. S. in 1983 with senior student Haruo Matsuoka.

Seagal left Matsuoka in charge of the dojo, which he ran until the two parted ways in 1997.

Steven Seagal in Hard to Kill.