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Michel Qissi

Highest Rated: 40% Kickboxer (1989)

Lowest Rated: 20% Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)

Birthday: Sep 12, 1962

Birthplace: Oujda, Morocco

Michel Qissi began studying boxing at the age of 7 and within 10 years he had become an amateur champion. In addition to boxing, he trained in various forms of martial arts with his close friend Jean-Claude Van Damme. The two moved to the United States together in 1982 to pursue a career in Hollywood, and got their big break four years later when they signed a three-picture deal with Cannon Films. In the 1988 biopic "Bloodsport," Van Damme starred and Qissi played a smaller role as competition fighter Suan Paredes. In the pair's second film, "Cyborg," Qissi stayed off-screen, instead acting as Van Damme's personal trainer. However, in the 1989 action film "Kickboxer," Qissi scored the leading role of Tong Po, which remains his most famous character. Following "Kickboxer," he landed his second leading role in "Lionheart," which ended up being his final collaboration with Van Damme. Qissi returned to the role of Tong Po in the 1991 sequel "Kickboxer 2." In 1993, he directed his first film, "Terminator Woman," a martial-arts cop movie in which he also played the villain, and followed that project with another directorial venture, the 2001 action film "Extreme Force."

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Highest rated movies

40% 65% Kickboxer Watchlist
39% 52% Lionheart
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20% 32% Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
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Final Assault
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Killer Ex
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Terminator Woman
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To the Death
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Extreme Force
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17% Bloodmatch
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59% The Last Kumite Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 59% The Last Kumite Wolf (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Killer Ex Shakur (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Borrowed Time Khan (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Extreme Force Kong Li (Character),
Director,
Writer
$10.8K 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Final Assault DeFuego (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Terminator Woman Alex Gatelee (Character),
Director
- 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet To the Death Denard (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 17% Bloodmatch Davey O'Brien (Character) - 1991
20% 32% Kickboxer 2: The Road Back Tong Po (Character) $1.2M 1991
39% 52% Lionheart Moustafa (Character) $22.5M 1990
40% 65% Kickboxer Tong Po (Character) $13.2M 1989