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Alias Character: Thomas Grace (2005- )
Birth Date: January 22, 1975
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth name: Paul Balthazar Getty
Nickname: Balty
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Spouse : Rosetta Millington (3 May 2000 - present) 1 child (Cassius Paul Getty born July 17, 2000)
Trivia: Has the letters "BZAR" tattooed on the fingers of his right hand.
Son of Gisela Getty and Paul Getty Jr..
Great grandson of Jean Paul Getty.
Lived with actress Lala Zappa/Sloatman when he was 16.
Played hockey for a team in Burbank, CA.
Balthazar's wife, Rosetta Millington, designs clothing for children.
As a child his family called him Little Buddha because he had a red birthmark in the center of his forehead and he rarely smiled.
Balthazar's aunt, Aileen Getty, was married to Elizabeth Taylor's son, Christopher Wilding.
His father, J. Paul Getty III, was the victim in one of the 20th century's most sensational kidnappings. While on vacation in 1973, he was kidnapped by the Italian mafia. When his family balked at paying the $3.4 million dollar ransom demanded, the gangsters sliced off their captive's right ear and mailed it to a newspaper. Finally his grandfather sent the money, and J. Paul Getty III was finally released.
Flimography: Click here! to read about his other roles
About Balthazar:
Balthazar Getty is an extremely talented actor who has grown in both size and ability before the eyes of the public. He most recently co-starred in the miniseries "Into the West" and "Traffic," and in the feature film "Ladder 49," opposite Joaquin Phoenix and John Travolta. He starred in and produced Newmark Films' "Shadow Hours," which he also co-produced under his production company, 5150. He starred in the film "Slingshot" with David Arquette, which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, and will soon be seen in "Feast," playing the lead role in this latest Project Greenlight feature.
Getty released his first album in 2004 with Scott Thomas and his band, Ringside, through Fred Durst's Flawless Records, a division of Interscope.
Getty also starred in the Diane Keaton-directed and produced television series, "Pasadena," and in Wayne Wang's digital film, "The Center of the World," with Peter Sarsgaard.
Additional film credits include starring opposite Val Kilmer and Christian Slater in Peter Antonijevic's "In God We Trust," "Big City Blues" with Burt Reynolds and William Forsythe, "Fait Accompli" opposite Rosanna Arquette and Michael Madsen, David Lynch's "Lost Highway," "Mr. Holland's Opus," "Deuces Wild," Ridley Scott's "White Squall," Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers," "Where the Day Takes You," "Young Guns II" and "My Heroes Have always Been Cowboys." In his debut film, "Lord of the Flies," Getty was critically lauded for his work at the age of 14 in the role of Ralph.
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