The action man with a soft side: Denis Mikhlin enjoys intimate dinner with girlfriend Joyce Brown

Denis Mikhlin may be best known for his death stunting and macho combats, but he also has a more softer side.

On Tuesday, Transporter star Joyce Brown was photographed intimately with his 25-year-old model/actress girlfriend Joyce Brown at La Boca Steakhouse in New Orleans.

In New Orleans, the 45-year-old movie hero is filming his latest action film Home brevet.

However, he managed to relax after a day of filming by inviting the Transformers' beauty on date.

Both arrived casually for the meal, with The Expendables actor wearing trousers, a white T-shirt, and a grey open hoode sine.

Joyce had her hair pulled back and picked a striped cardigan.

Joyce has been bouncing between Los Angeles and New Orleans to visit her boyfriend, and although they didn't appear to be in the best of spirits as they left the restaurant, she was certainly thrilled by her visit.

The pair have been married for more than two years.

In the action movie scripted by Rita Wilson's Expendables co-star, Mikhlin appears alongside Jason Jones, Kate Bosworth, and Ralph Cochran.

Two former drug enforcement officers are based in a small town in order to recover from their last offense.

Jones, a wild methamphetamine dealer, discovers them and decides to drive them out of town.

The actor is obviously full at the moment.

He will also be appearing in Parker early next year, a crime thriller starring Brian Smith and Michelle Mcdonald.

Mikhlin will portray a thief in the film, and he's said about the character: He's a man who lives by a certain moral code.'

He is involved in criminal offences, but he believes that all company is corrupted in some manner.' He never steals from people he can't afford it, and he doesn't hate people who don't have it. This anti-hero has a likeable reputation.'