Ranked #56 in the "Top 100 Stars at the Box Office of the 1990s" list.
Ranked #82 in the "Top 100 Stars at the Box Office of the 1980s" list.
Served in the Danish army, where he was sergeant and a weapon's mechanic.
Speaks four languages: Danish, English, German and Swedish.
Was a body building judge in the 1980s.
When he was a young adult, he weighed only 180 lbs (82 kilo), but then he began working out to become much stronger, and at 24 years old, Sven had bulked up to 320 lbs (145 kilo).
Won the "Strongest Man in the World"-contest, by power-lifting a massive 544 lbs (247 kilo - 1981).