Philippe Joly

Philippe Joly (born 2 January 1976) is a French actor and screenwriter, born in Moscow, Russia. Joly is best known for his role as Zoltan in the 2015 film Pound of Flesh with Jean-Claude Van Damme and his role as Decimus in Jackie Chan’s film Dragon Blade directed by Daniel Lee, in which he appears alongside American actors John Cusack and Adrien Brody, and French singer/actress Lorie Pester. Joly regularly plays the villain in Action films in Asia, and appeared alongside many Hong Kong actors including Chow Yun Fat as a foreign gangsters in From Vegas to Macau, he also played a killer disguised as a maid in Andy Lau's film Mission Milano, and worked with Francis Ng in the mob comedy titled "Change Of Gangster". As well as acting, Joly has also written many screenplays, and produced and directed a couple of Independent films in Hong Kong. Joly speaks several languages (French, Russian, Italian and English), is an avid practitioner of close-up magic and card manipulation, and has trained in various Martial Arts since the age of 5. While not a stuntman, Joly often has to perform stunts as required by the Action film genre and the type of characters he plays. In the film Lust & Found, he choreographed the fight scene sequence.