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Tim Man
was born in Sweden on the 22:nd of november, 1979. He started to
practise
martial arts at the age of 8 and was forever hooked in the world of martial arts.
Since then he has trained various martial arts such as Taekwondo, Wushu, Boxing,
Thaiboxing, MMA to name a few. Tim Man was also a 3times Swedish champion in
Taekwondo
and came on a 3:rd place in the World Championships at the age of 15.
Later on he began practising gymnastics and acrobatics cause he was inspired by all the flashy
and cool hong kong
movies he grew up to love. He was also inspired by the website Bilang that
started to post home made
martial art tricks videos back in 1999.
Movies
was always a big interesst for Tim, he began his carer as a stuntperformer in Sweden.
But his passion had always been in the east.
So he packed his bag and went to asia for a few years and worked as a stuntperformer where
he got more experienced in
screenfighting and fight choreography.
In Thailand he got a fight scene with the rising star Tony Jaa in
Ong bak 2.
Acting
At this time Tim Man also began to take acting classes and started to get minor roles
in movies and commercials.
2008 he got a role in the american movie Streetfighter Legend of Chun Li
as the harbour master Yung. And played against Kristine Kreuk.
Tim got the lead role in the first Italian martial art action/comedy Una vita da sogno
(2011)
where he played the brainwashed and crazy martial artist
Marco Zanc.
Wich he also fight choreographed and action directed.
Tim Man also got the lead part in the action movie
Kill Em All (2011)
as the assasin The Kid,
who lets his fist do the talking.
Where he worked togheter with the legendary Gordon Liu and
kickboxing legend Joe Lewis.
Tim Man also did the Stunt & Fight coordination for the movie,
including the action directing for the fightscenes.
Action choreography
Tim Man is also a stunt/fight coordinator. He started doing fight scenes at a very young age
when he got his first dv-camera.
Today Tim Man has coordinated several movies such as : Ninja 2, Kill Em all, Una vita da sogno, Skills
Along with several commercials, tv-series, motion capture, music videos, live shows etc.
Tim works all around the world both infront and behind the camera.
And is always looking for challanges to develop and grow as an filmmaker.
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