Steven Seagal

Steven Frederic Seagal is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician, who also holds Serbian and Russian citizenship. He made his acting debut in the 1988 crime thriller film . By 1991, he had starred in four successful films.
For Disney, he played Dr. Wesley McClaren in the 1998 Touchstone Pictures film The Patriot.
Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, the son of Patricia Anne Fisher, a medical technician, and Samuel Seagal, a mathematics teacher. His mother was of Irish descent, while his father was Jewish. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. During an interview for the Russian talk show , Seagal stated that he has paternal ancestors from the Siberian city of Vladivostok, as well as Belarus and Saint Petersburg. He stated that genetic testing determined that he has Yakut and Buryat ancestry as well. When he was five years old, Seagal moved with his parents to Fullerton, California. His mother later told People magazine that prior to the move Seagal was frail and suffered from asthma: "He was a puny kid back then. But he really thrived after the move [from Michigan]."
Seagal attended Buena Park High School in Buena Park, California, and Fullerton College between 1970 and 1971. He has been described as a "pathological liar" due to his propensity of making greatly exaggerated or outright fabricated statements about his personal life and achievements. For instance, Seagal has claimed that he was a student of the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba; despite the fact that Ueshiba died in 1969 when Seagal was 17 and five years before Seagal moved to Japan at age 22 — when he moved there to allegedly avoid the draft for the Vietnam War by marrying a Japanese national.
==Role==
Wesley McClaren.jpg|Dr. Wesley McClaren(The Patriot)
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