Yayan Ruhian

Quick Facts

Date of Birth10/19/1968

Country of OriginIndonesia

OccupationActor, Fight choreographer

Biography

Yayan Ruhian is an Indonesian pencak silat master, actor and fight choreographer. He was born on 19 October 1968 in Tasikmalaya, West Java.

He began training in pencak silat at the age of thirteen and also became acquainted with aikido. He teaches pencak silat in the Tenaga Dasar style, working within it as a trainer and referee, and also teaches internal breathing techniques developed within Perguruan Silat Tenaga Dasar Indonesia. Until the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century he taught in Belgium, France and the Netherlands. According to Indonesian sources he also led combat training for the Pasukan Pengamanan Presiden, Indonesia's presidential security unit.

He made his film debut in 2009 as Eric in Merantau, where he also helped choreograph the fight scenes; for this role he was nominated at the Indonesian Movie Awards 2010 in the categories Best Newcomer Actor and Favorite Newcomer Actor. In The Raid (2011) he played the character Mad Dog and choreographed fight scenes with Iko Uwais, which he repeated for The Raid 2 (2014), where he played Prakosa. He also worked as both actor and choreographer on 212 Warrior (2018).

In 2015 he appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Tasu Leech and made his Japanese debut in Takashi Miike's film Yakuza Apocalypse in the role of Kyoken/Mad Dog. He also appeared in The Night Comes for Us (2018), in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and, the same year, in the Malaysian film Wira as Ifrit.

Associated Martial Arts

Filmography

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