Billy Blanks
Acting
Biography
Muscular African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania in 1955 amongst humble backgrounds and grew up as one of 15 children, battling dyslexia and tendon problems. However that didn't stop him from starting his martial arts training at age 14 and eventually achieving black belts in tae kwon do & several other arts, and winning numerous US martial arts tournaments. Blanks first popped up on movie screens in the mid 1980s in tough guy p…
Also known as
William Wayne "Billy" Blanks
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Known For
The Fairly OddParents
2001 · TV
Melrose Place
1992 · TV
ER
1994 · TV
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996 · TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV
V.I.P.
1998 · TV
Martial Law
1998 · TV
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · TV
The Parkers
1999 · TV
The Parent 'Hood
1995 · TV
Kiss the Girls
1997 · Movie
Tango & Cash
1989 · Movie