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French-Senegalese actor and producer Seydina Baldé has worn many hats across his career including World Karate Champion and stuntman on films such as Brian de Palma’s Femme Fatale and Bond movie Casino Royale, but his dream since childhood has been to be an actor.

After a dozen small parts, Baldé engineered his first starring role with the self-produced, English-language action thriller Covert Operation (aka The Borderland). The North Korean-set movie, about a bounty hunter on a mission to break prisoners out of high-security military compound, sold to Lionsgate for the U.S. and won praise from action movie fans.

A decade later, Baldé is appearing in the most ambitious production of his career, six-part show Lex Africana, which is being billed as the first martial arts-based action thriller to come out of West Africa.

Baldé plays brilliant architect and martial arts expert Gabriel Aliou Thiam who returns after a...

Hoping to cash in on the long Vinayagar Chathurthi weekend, the Ajith starrer Vivegam is one of the most awaited films of the year. Hollywood stuntman Serge Crozon, who had worked with Ajith in the film, was full of praises for the star. Revealing that Ajith did not use any body double for even the most challenging and daring stunt sequences, Crozon said that he was awed by his performance and dedication. The stuntman will be seen sharing the screen space with Ajith in a couple of fights in the film.