Olivier Martinez(I)
- Actor
Olivier Martinez comes from a working-class family, raised in the Paris
suburbs. He left school at an early age, holding various pick-up jobs
such as salesman for jeans. Friends urged him to try acting, and at age
23 he enrolled in the International Conservatory of Paris. After
several television shows, he reached the international market with
Le hussard sur le toit (1995), billed in his American promotional tour for that movie as "the
French Brad Pitt".