In a Russian interview, Seagal once stated that he had a Mongolian grandfather ( either Buryat or Kalmyk ).

In another deadpan statement after the hearing, he stated " I've since watched a couple of Steven Seagal movies and realised that pressure points are no laughing matter ," but he also acknowledged his own " stupidity " in the controversy.

Seagal personally endorses this drink, saying, " I have traveled the world creating this drink ; there is none better that I know.

Sasso also does many celebrity impersonations, including impersonations of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris Farley, Steven Seagal, Bill Clinton, Drew Carey, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Fred Durst, George W. Bush, James Gandolfini ( as himself and Tony Soprano ), James Lipton, Jesse Ventura, Kenny Rogers, Lance Bass, Louie Anderson, Paul Shaffer, Randy Newman, Richard Simmons, Robert De Niro, The Rock, Steve Austin, Wayne Newton, William Frawley ( as Fred Mertz from I Love Lucy ), and William Shatner ( as himself and as James T. Kirk ).

And the other week I was having a go at Michael Parkinson, saying he used to be fantastic but sadly now he's become too fawning, and then I did the Seagal thing and I thought: I should just leave.

Sergeant Nicolo " Nico " Toscani ( Steven Seagal ) is a detective in the Chicago Police Department ’ s vice squad.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seagal earned a Razzie Award nomination as Worst Actor for his work in Half Past Dead.

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.

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.

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

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.

When Seagal's father-in-law retired from his job as an instructor, Seagal became the new head of the organization known as Tenshin Aikido in Osaka ( affiliated with the Aikikai ).

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.

That film reunited Seagal with director Andrew Davis, and was a blockbuster in the U. S. and abroad, grossing $ 156. 4 million worldwide.

Seagal produced this film with his own money, and the film was shot on-location on and near his farm in Montana.

After producing Prince of Central Park, Seagal returned to cinema screens with the release of Exit Wounds in March 2001.

All of the films Seagal has made since the latter half of 2001 have been released direct-to-video ( DTV ) in North America, with some theatrical releases to other countries around the world.

During this time it emerged that Seagal was having an affair with Arissa Wolf, who was hired to be a nanny to Seagal and Lebrock's children.

Seagal has a daughter with Arissa Wolf, Savannah.

Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher ( Seagal ) has just returned from Colombia, where his partner Chico ( Richard Delmonte ) was killed in a confrontation with drug dealers, and John killed the dealers who killed Chico.

Seagal got into a heated argument that escalated into violence with an extra named Tyler Combs.

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 75 % based on reviews from 24 critics. This is the only Steven Seagal movie to be certified fresh on Rottentomatoes. com, along with Machete.

It takes Forrest Taft ( Seagal ), a specialist in dealing with oil drilling-related fires, to extinguish the fire.

* Steven Seagal as Forrest Taft, a specialist who puts out oil fires who ran a afoul with Ageis Oil

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.

In 2009, A & E Network premiered the reality television series ; Steven Seagal: Lawman, focusing on Seagal as a deputy in Louisiana.

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.

The Soup makes jokes at the A & E TV Series, Steven Seagal: Lawman.

In addition to composing films and television specials for History, A & E, National Geographic, Sundance, MTV and PBS, Brill is the ongoing composer for the series The First 48 and Steven Seagal: Lawman.

Seagal is credited as a producer and sometimes a writer on many of these DTV movies, which include Black Dawn, Belly of the Beast, Out of Reach, Submerged, Kill Switch, Urban Justice, Pistol Whipped, Against the Dark, Driven to Kill, A Dangerous Man, Born to Raise Hell and The Keeper, a movie released in Japan fifteen weeks earlier than the United States.

Under Siege is a 1992 American action film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Steven Seagal as a former Navy SEAL who must stop a group of mercenaries, led by Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey, on a U. S. Navy battleship.

This was the third straight Seagal movie to make number 1 at the U. S. box office on its opening weekend.

Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis ( Steven Seagal ) leads an unsuccessful raid on a Chechen mafia safehouse by a United States Army Special Forces team to recover a stolen Soviet nerve agent, DZ-5.

Steven Seagal had a fairly minor role in the film, and his character was killed early on, despite being one of the more well-known of the actors to appear in the film, and a major action star at the time.

Seagal plays an ex-CIA agent on a quest to find his kidnapped daughter.

He has long been a fan of Hollywood action man Steven Seagal, who he had mentioned several times on radio, and remarked that he would love to meet.

In 2003, Peter Gotti was convicted of extortion and money laundering activities centered on the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfronts, and for the attempted extortion of film actor Steven Seagal.

Chris Cody ( Steven Seagal ) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to stop a major terrorist strike on U. S. soil — a strike that the UN refused to believe was about to happen.

When Takayama ( Mac Yasuda ), the governor of Tokyo, is murdered, it falls on ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter ( Steven Seagal ) to track down those responsible.