Actors you don't know are martial artist

Many actors play kickass roles, but not all of them have backgrounds in martial arts, few of who trains martial arts particularly for a role in a movie to make it look more realistic, while some other actors in Hollywood have backgrounds or are highly skilled, but don't feature in action or martial art movies or just few, so here's my list of actors you don't know are martial artist.

1. Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves Brazilian jiu jitsu

Keanu Reeves grew up playing ice hockey and was a successful goalkeeper, he thought of playing ice hockey for Canada, but later on decided to become an actor due to a serious injury he developed while playing, he was the bassist and backing vocalist for the American alternative band, Dogstar, but decided to leave the band to pursue his acting career, Keanu is known for his roles in the science-fiction comedy, Bill and Ted's excellent adventure (1989), point break (1991), speed (1999), the matrix (1999), man of tai chi (2013) and the John Wick franchise, it was doing the making of the matrix that Keanu began training in martial arts, Keanu trains Brazilian jiu jitsu, wushu, boxing, krav maga, judo and karate.

2. Robert Downey Jr

Robert is well known for his role as Tony Stark/Iron man in Iron man and other Marvel films, although he doesn't have any background in martial arts or showcase his skills in most if his movies, Robert practices meditation, yoga and trains wing chun kungfu under Eric Oram, who is also a fight coordinator in some of his movies.

3. Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie started training in shotokan karate at the Budokwai in London, when he was just seven, later on earning a black belt, he also have a black belt in Judo and Brazilian jiu jitsu under Renzo Gracie.

4. Ashton Kutcher

Ashton was just some troublesome kid growing up, although he does mostly comedy films, he's well skilled, Ashton started training Brazilian jiu jitsu several years ago, and he's a black belt under Rigan Machado, one of the Machado brothers, no wonder his IQ is 160, what a genius!

5. Taylor Lautner 

Who doesn't know twilight? Taylor was seriously bullied in school simply because he was an actor, poor kids smh, this led him as he took his first karate class at the age of six, he later attended the national karate tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, where he met the founder of Xtreme martial arts, Michael Chaturantabut who invited Taylor yo train with him in a camp, at the university of California, Los Angeles.

     Eventually, Taylor earned his black belt at the age of eight and also won several junior world championships.

6. Ed O'Neill

Though a comedian, Ed trains martial arts, he was introduced to Brazilian jiu jitsu by write and director, John Milius, who is also his very good friend, Ed trained for almost 23 years under Rorion Gracie, later on earning his black belt in 2007.

7. John Cusack

John Cusack trained kickboxing under one of the best kickboxer and world kickboxing champion, Benny "The Jet" Urquidez for almost 21 years, he actually began training under Benny for his role in the movie, Say anything, he currently holds the rank of level six black belt in the ukidokan kickboxing system, the Benny system I guess.

8. Mark Dacascos

Mark Dacascos grew up training wun hop kuen do, under his dad, a martial arts founded by him, and between the ages of 7 and 18, Mark won numerous karate and kung fu championships, he also practices muay Thai, capoeira with Amen Santo and wushu with coach Eric and Debbie Chen.

9. Katheryn Winnick

Hot, but kickass, Katheryn is best known for her role as Shield maiden Lagertha in The Vikings TV series and her kickass performance as Christine Garvin in Wu Assassins.

     Katherine started training martial arts at a young age of seven and earned her black belt at the age of 13, she opened three taekwondo schools when she was 21,  where she taught self-defense and taekwondo to various actors.

10. Paul Walker

Paul Walker trained Brazilian jiu jitsu and muay Thai, and was a huge fan of the UFC, he also trained Jeet Kune Do, and around the time of his death, he was awarded an honorary black belt by his teacher, Ricardo Miller.