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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". IMDb Mini Biography By: Bruce Cameron Trivia - www.imdb.com

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A trained pugilist who shifted to acting after an accident, Gallic heartthrob Olivier Martinez succumbed to mainstream Hollywood with his co-starring role in Adrian Lyne's erotic potboiler Unfaithful (2002). Olivier Martinez has been called the most promising French actor since Gerard Depardieu His acting career came entirely by accident. After a series of dead-end jobs and with no foreseeable future, he accompanied a friend to an audition and was bitten by the acting bug. His first role was co-starring wit - www.biggeststars.com

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Olivier Martinez at the premiere of 'No Country for Old Men.'© Richard Chavez - movies.about.com