Ron Smoorenbug

InvictusX

Independent Director, 2nd Unit director, Actor, Fight Choreographer

A lifelong martial artist, Smoorenburg was given the opportunity to break into movie making with an audition for Jackie Chan’s ‘Who Am I?” (1998), taking on Chan in the final fight at the end of the movie. The movie’s action was nominated for the Best Fight Choreography & Action Design.

Over the course of his career, Ron has been able to work in more than 100 (action) movies with many of the biggest names in martial arts cinema from Jackie Chan, Tony Jaa, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donnie Yen, Iko Uwais, Michael Jai-White, Gary Daniels, Steven Seagal and Scott Adkins. Ron is Based in Thailand since 2005 and is known for numerous TV appearances there as well as his fights with Tony Jaa in both ‘Tom Yum Goong/The Protector” (2005) and “Triple Threat” which saw him battling Jaa once more.

Ron was a second unit director on Bangkok Adrenaline in 2009 and decided to take a bigger step to start Directing both action and drama using all his experience he gained over the years. His debute will be this month September 2024 with the short movie ‘Assassins Tale X’ based on medieval video game concepts.