Perfect Casting: 23 Stars on Screen as Themselves

Jean-Claude Van Damme is earning his best reviews by playing himself in ''JCVD'' -- on DVD today -- and he joins a parade of celebs in the roles they were born to play, from Neil Patrick Harris in ''Harold and Kumar'' to Patrick Stewart in ''Extras''

By Kate Ward | Apr 27, 2009

Actor | Authors | Directors | RolesClass | Individual | Jean-Claude Van Damme

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME
JCVD (2008)

The Muscles from Brussels shows that he's more than a pretty face and a wicked kick in this drama, which has Van Damme playing an ex-action hero with financial woes who gets mixed up in a bank heist. Who'd have thought that the word pathos would ever be legitimately used to describe a Van Damme performance? —Marc Bernardin

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