Balthazar Getty Biography

Name : Balthazar Getty

Date of Birth : 22 January 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name : Paul Balthazar Getty

Nickname : Balty

Height : 6' (1.83 m)

Nationality : American

Occupation : Actor, musician

Paul Balthazar Getty or we know Balthazar Getty born January 22, 1975 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, U.S. He is an American film actor and member of the band Ringside. His great grandfather was Jean Paul Getty, his grandfather Sir Paul Getty, and his father John Paul Getty III. The Getty family’s fortune is based on the oil business.

Balthazar Getty was enrolled at Gordonstoun School, an elite boarding school that has educated three generations of the British Royal Family. His great-grandfather was Jean Paul Getty, founder of the Getty Oil Company, and at one time one of the richest men in the world. His father was John Paul Getty III; his mother, Gisela Martine Getty (née Schmidt), is a professional photographer and documentary filmmaker. His parents divorced in 1993.

For Paul Haggis' "Red Hot" (1996), Getty's research included studying piano and guitar for months in order to play a 50s Russian music student who catches American rock-n-roll fever. The role was a variation on his performance in Stone's "Natural Born Killers" as the naive character is led astray by a mysterious femme fatale (Patricia Arquette). He followed with a turn alongside Burt Reynolds and William Forsythe in the comedy-thriller "Big City Blues" (1997).Getty next appeared in a string of low-budget indies that barely saw the light of day. After two straight-to-video releases-"Out in Fifty" (1999), about an ex-con determined to go straight, and "Voodoo Dawn" (2000), a cheese-ball thriller about a convict who learns voodoo to exact revenge on the people who put him behind bars-Getty starred as a gas station clerk looking to put his days of drugs and booze behind him in "Shadow Hours" (2000).

Getty continued keeping a low profile in little-seen features while randomly showing up on television. He had a small, but interesting role in "Deuces Wild" (2002) as the loyal right-hand man to the leader (Norman Reedus) of a 1950's gang who's released from prison and causes trouble for another gang trying to keep heroin of its block. Getty next joined Christian Slater and Val Kilmer in the heist thriller "Run for the Money" (2002), then gave an energetic performance in "Sol Goode" (WB, 2002) as a 20-something ladies man whose life takes a sudden turn for the serious when he faces the prospect of getting evicted. Forced to get a real job-and a real life-he starts falling for his best friend, Chl (Katherine Towne), who is not convinced that he turned over a new leaf. In a different turn for the actor, Getty was portrayed as one of the good guys in "Ladder 49" (2004), director Jay Russell's melodramatic tribute to firefighters.