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UP CLOSE: RIGAN MACHADO

FEATURED ON: The Combat Show

BORN: Rio de Janeiro

AGE: 56

STYLE: Brazilian jiu-jitsu

CELEBRITY STUDENTS: Keanu Reeves, Ashton Kutcher, Vin Diesel

You’ve probably been in 30 movies. …

Rigan Machado: And TV shows, but now I started getting bigger jobs. The biggest job I ever got was with Nicolas Cage and Tony Jaa [in Jiu Jitsu]. I play a warrior — it was pretty cool.

I also did a comedy with Russell Peters and Michael Jai White: a Western. Now I got an offer to do a movie in Bollywood. I play a zombie. They kill me and my wife, and I come

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