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- Ben Smith-Petersen is an Australian stuntman and actor.
- He’s married to actress Riley Keough.
- He has a daughter with Riley.
- He attended the funeral for Riley’s mom, Lisa Marie Presley.
Ben Smith-Petersen is a loving husband to Riley Keough, particularly within the wake of tragedy. Ben supported the American Honey actress, 31, at her mom Lisa Marie Presley‘s funeral service at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee on January 22. He learn a letter written by Riley as a tribute for her mom and revealed the couple secretly welcomed a daughter collectively. “Thank you for showing me that love is the most important things in this life. I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me,” Ben learn on the service.
Riley is leaning on her husband as she grapples with the lack of her mom. So who’s Ben Smith-Petersen? Here is all the pieces you could find out about him.
Ben is Australian.
Ben was born and raised in Australia, which is the place he met Riley. “Falling in love in Australia was amazing. He started taking me all around Sydney to these little places he loved,” Riley recalled in a 2022 essay for Vogue Australia. She additionally revealed that they acquired matching tattoos in Australia the third day they frolicked.
He works as a stuntman.
Ben has been working as a stuntman on motion pictures since a minimum of 2011. Some of the movies he’s labored on embody The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Mad Max: Fury Road, Suicide Squad, Peter Rabbit, Triple Frontier, and The Suicide Squad, in response to his IMDb. He additionally did stunts for the upcoming Mad Max prequel starring Chris Hemsworth.
He’s additionally an actor.
As an actor, Ben labored with Riley on the 2014 brief movie Spark and Light. He’ll be featured within the upcoming horror movie The Dead Thing and the upcoming TV comedy sequence Rock Me, per his IMDb.
He met Riley on a film set.
Ben and Riley met in Australia whereas doing re-shoots on Mad Max: Fury Road in 2013. Ben was working as a stuntman and Riley was within the solid. The first time they frolicked exterior of labor was at Riley’s pal’s home in Sydney. “We had a couple of drinks and I remember we had a connection,” Riley stated within the Vogue Australia essay, including that they salsa danced collectively and shared their first kiss by the top of the night time. Ben and Riley introduced their engagement in August 2014.
Ben married Riley in Napa Valley.
Ben and Riley tied the knot in Napa, California on February 4, 2015. But that wasn’t the couple’s solely marriage ceremony! “Technically, our first wedding was in Nepal, because we were there building a school a couple of weeks before we got married,” Riley revealed through Vogue Australia. “The families knew we were getting married and they said, ‘Let us throw you a Hindu wedding.’ It was so beautiful and, in some ways, that wedding was a little more intimate and really special,” Riley additionally stated. “That wedding, I cried. At my bigger wedding I was a little nervous, I wasn’t as present. But it was still equally as amazing.”
Riley additionally praised Ben within the Vogue Australia essay, saying, “My husband is such a good person. He’s calm and loyal and strong and sensitive. He’s my best friend.”