Philippe Joly is a Actor French born on 2 january 1976
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Nationality FranceBirth 2 january 1976 (48 years)
Philippe Joly (born 2 January 1976) is a French actor and screenwriter, born in Moscow, Russia. Joly is best known for his role as Zoltan in the 2015 film Pound of Flesh with Jean-Claude Van Damme and his role as General Paullus in Jackie Chan’s film Dragon Blade directed by Daniel Lee, in which he appears alongside American actors John Cusack and Adrien Brody, and French singer/actress Lorie Pester.
Joly regularly plays the villain in Action films in Asia, and appeared with Chow Yun Fat as one of the foreign gangsters in From Vegas to Macau. As well as acting, Joly has also written many screenplays, and produced and directed a couple of Independent films in Hong Kong.
Joly speaks several languages (French, Russian, Italian and English), is an avid practitioner of close-up magic and card manipulation, and has trained in various Martial Arts since the age of 5. While not a stuntman, Joly often has to perform stunts as required by the Action film genre and the type of characters he plays. In the film Lust & Found, he choreographed the fight scene sequence.
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