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Olivier Gruner
Olivier Gruner is a former Commando Marine and World Kickboxing Champion. He built his acting career on captivating audiences with heart-pounding thrills and adventure while starring in various action movies. Gruner's early acting career mostly consisted of roles in various films, such as "Angel Town" (), "Nemesis" () and "Savage" (). He additionally landed roles in the TV movies "Automatic" (HBO, ) and "Savate" (HBO, ).
His film career continued throughout the nineties in productions like "Mercenary 2: Thick and Thin" (), "Velocity Trap" () and "Interceptor Force" (). His work around this time also included a part on the TV movie "Mars" (HBO, ). More recently, he continued to act in "Crooked" (), "Skorumpowani" () and "Brother's War" (). He also was featured in the TV movie "The White Pony" (Showtime, ). Most recently, Gruner acted in "Sector 4: Extraction" ().
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Olivier Gruner was born on August 2, in Paris. His father was a successful surgeon with his own surgery practice. One of his brothers also became a surgeon and his younger brother became an engineer. When he was 18 years old, he joined the Marine Nationale, volunteering for their Commando Marine unit, which are the Special Operation Forces of the French Navy. As part of his military training, he learned to scuba dive, sky dive and climb. Most of this time he was in Djibouti and Somalia. At this time he already trained karate. When he left the Marine Nationale in , he went to the French Alps and started to train kick-boxing. He choose this place because he could ski, one of his biggest hobbies. After three years of hard training, he became for the first time French Kickboxing Champion. He defended the title two times and in he became the World Middleweight Kickboxing Champion. He had a job at the film festival in Cannes, where he put up a poster of himself. Two days later, a man ca
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Olivier Gruner
French actor and kickboxer
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Gruner in January | |
Born | Olivier Gruner () 2 August (age64) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Othernames | O.G. |
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Yearsactive | – (martial arts) –present (acting) |
Height | 6ft 1in (cm) |
Children | 1 |
Martial arts career | |
Division | Middleweight |
Style | Karate, Kickboxing |
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Allegiance | France |
Service / branch | French Navy |
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Unit | Commandos Marine |
Olivier Gruner (French:[ɔlivjeɡʁyne]ⓘ) (born August 2, ) is a French actor, filmmaker, martial artist and former kickboxer. Born in Paris, he moved back to France in after serving in the French military and competing as a professional kickboxer, during which time he won a silver medal at the W.A.K.O. World Championships. He has appeared in over 40 films and 4 television series and