Dominique Vandenberg is a Belgian martial artist, actor and stunt performer.
Vandenberg lives in California, where he has appeared in movies such as Pit Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
Background
Dominique Vandenberg was born Dominique Horevoets in Waasmont, Belgium. As a young adult, Vandenberg competed in numerous martial arts competitions, winning most of them, and left school at age sixteen to enroll in a Kunto training course in Okinawa, Japan. After graduating the course in a tie for first rank, Vandenberg returned to Belgium, where he was drafted into the military. Vandenberg volunteered for a post in Germany as it offered a shorter service of eight months (as opposed to a year). Immediately upon his release, Vandenberg began training for an invitational freestyle martial arts competition he had been invited to upon completion of the Kunto course. Vandenberg won the competition with only two months of training but was hit by a car and broke his leg.
Unable to fight in further events, Vandenberg left Belgium to join the French Foreign Legion.