Olivier Ripley

Smaine, winner of an Honorable Mention in the Los Angeles Movie Awards Film Festival 2010.

Ripley was born in Frejus (South of France). He attended a catholic boarding school when he was 14 and a special private school of Nice, France, for gifted students during 3 years. He was athletic while growing up, fencing (winning many competitions) and sailing for example. He has a passion for art, especially the painter Salvador Dali and the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Thanks to his father, he traveled all over the world : Africa, America, Asia and Europe. When he was 8, he played in an Italian movie, and he knew that he would become an actor but he returned to his studies : literature, international trade and airline pilot. He worked on boats during summers then became a salesman, worked in events management and marketing. In 2009, Ripley was pronounced unfit to be a pilot due to an hearing loss and decided, with his wife, to leave everything the had in France to go to Los Angeles to study acting and finally reach his old dream. He played in several students and short films, including Axis of Evil directed by Anouar H.