The Marbella City Council has today appointed Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren, who played the Russian boxer Ivan Drago in Rocky IV to, ‘Ambassador of Marbella “for his association with the municipality and its long and successful career.
The Mayoress of Marbella Ángeles Muñoz has highlighted that Marbella and its citizens is a real privilege to have such distinguished neighbors as Dolph Lundgren, he could have chosen any city to live and has opted for our own.“ Munoz stressed that the Swedish actor meets and exceeds the profile for the City to associate with the name of the municipality and “promote the city and its image worldwide.”
“The goal is to involve persons of recognized national and international reputation who want to sit in Marbella and we know that the heart feels Lundgren,” he underlined.
In this sense, expressed by the actor who has told his wife and two daughters “make life in Marbella and not think about changing it for anything.”
- Marbella is a very special place for my family, a wonderful city in which they can fully enjoy life,” said the Swede, who has highlighted in his speech “the beauty of the Sierra de la Concha in contrast to the blue Mediterranean Sea.
But first, highlighted the “warmth and hospitality of their neighbors, who know how to enjoy life in a unique way in the world.”
Therefore, he has shown his “love” for the city and has undertaken to bear the name of the city everywhere.
Tourism Councilman Jose Luis Hernandez, also wanted to highlight the figure of Lundgren and the importance of personalities with a career as contrasted.
The mayor has shelled the biography of the actor, director, screenwriter and film producer “who has worked primarily in action films and martial arts in Hollywood.”
Dolph Lundgren is born in Sweden, graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology as Master of Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney. It was in one of his trips to Boston when he landed in New York and presented to the casting for the role of Ivan Drago, which complements his life changed.
However, since contact had been maintained before the world of cinema in the film A View to a Kill James Bond saga, where it appears as the protector of his then-girlfriend, actress / singer Grace Jones. Among other outstanding films of his films are in Little Tokyo, Masters of the Universe, Universal Soldier, Johnny Mnemonic, Blackjack or Storm Hunter. It has now along with Sylvester Stallone filmed the movie The essentials alongside Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Brittany Murphy, Charisma Carpenter, Eric Roberts, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis and to be released in April 2010.
Finally, Hernandez recalled that Lundgren is the second ‘Ambassador of Marbella‘ along with the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco.