Olivier Gruner
Short Biography
Olivier Gruner was born on August 2. 1960 in Paris. His father is a
successful surgeon with his own surgery. His two brothers also made
academic careers. When Olivier was 18, he went to an elite force of
the french army, where he stayed 4 years. Most of this time he was in
Senegal, Africa. At this time he alredy trained karate. When he left the
army, he went to the french Alps and started to train kickboxing. He
choosed this place because he could ski, one of his biggest hobbies.
After 3 years of hard training, he became for the first time French
Kickbox Champion. He defended the title two times and in 1987 he became
World Kickbox Champion. A year after, he retired from kickboxing.
So his name was known, at least in France, and he worked as a model and
appeared in some tv spots. He had a job at the film festival in Cannes,
where he put up a poster of himself. 2 days later a man came and invited
him for test shoots to Los Angeles, which lead to his first film
"Angel town". Some more, mainly martial arts, movies followed.
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