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Caption | Möller at the 2008 Norisring race |
Birth date | January 12, 1959 |
Birth place | Recklinghausen, Germany |
Möller was born in Recklinghausen, Germany. He began bodybuilding at age 17 and was the German Champion by 1984. He competed in the 1988 Mr. Olympia alongside Lee Haney, Shawn Ray and other notable champions. He is one of the tallest bodybuilding champions to date standing at . Möller began a film career in 1989 with the film Cyborg. In 1992, he appeared in Universal Soldier with Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude van Damme.
His two biggest mainstream film roles to date are Ridley Scott's Gladiator, appearing alongside his friend Russell Crowe, and in 2002's The Scorpion King. Besides these two movies, he has played the leading character in The Viking Sagas, and also played Conan the Barbarian in the TV-series Conan. The show aired in 1997–1998, and the premise was that Conan, accompanied by his three sidekicks, was chosen by the god Crom to fight and vanquish the evil Hissah Zul and to become king.
In 2008, Möller was honored as Grand Marshal of the German-American Steuben Parade in New York City. This is the largest German-American event in the country, and tens of thousands of fans celebrated Möller as one of only a few German actors with success in Hollywood.
He has also collaborated with the German trance/techno-band E Nomine on a number of their albums.
Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:People from Recklinghausen Category:German bodybuilders Category:German film actors Category:German television actors Category:German voice actors Category:Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
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