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- Ben Smith-Petersen is an Australian stuntman and actor.
- He’s joined to histrion Riley Keough.
- He has a girl with Riley.
- He attended the ceremonial for Riley’s mother, Lisa Marie Presley.
Ben Smith-Petersen is a loving hubby to Riley Keough, particularly successful the aftermath of tragedy. Ben supported the American Honey actress, 31, astatine her mother Lisa Marie Presley‘s funeral service astatine Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee connected January 22. He read a missive written by Riley arsenic a tribute for her parent and revealed the mates secretly welcomed a girl together. “Thank you for showing maine that emotion is the astir important things successful this life. I anticipation I tin emotion my girl the mode you loved me,” Ben work astatine the service.
Riley is leaning connected her hubby arsenic she grapples with the nonaccomplishment of her mother. So who is Ben Smith-Petersen? Here is everything you request to cognize astir him.
Riley Keough and Ben Smith-Petersen astatine the 34th Film Independent Spirit Awards successful Feb. 2019 (Photo: Shutterstock)Ben is Australian.
Ben was calved and raised successful Australia, which is wherever helium met Riley. “Falling successful emotion successful Australia was amazing. He started taking maine each astir Sydney to these small places helium loved,” Riley recalled successful a 2022 effort for Vogue Australia. She besides revealed that they got matching tattoos successful Australia the 3rd time they hung out.
He works arsenic a stuntman.
Ben has been moving arsenic a stuntman connected movies since astatine slightest 2011. Some of the films he’s worked connected see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Mad Max: Fury Road, Suicide Squad, Peter Rabbit, Triple Frontier, and The Suicide Squad, according to his IMDb. He besides did stunts for the upcoming Mad Max prequel starring Chris Hemsworth.
He’s besides an actor.
As an actor, Ben worked with Riley connected the 2014 abbreviated film Spark and Light. He’ll beryllium featured successful the upcoming fearfulness film The Dead Thing and the upcoming TV drama series Rock Me, per his IMDb.
Riley Keough and Ben Smith-Petersen astatine the ‘Zola’ premiere successful June 2021 (Photo: Shutterstock)He met Riley connected a movie set.
Ben and Riley met successful Australia portion doing re-shoots on Mad Max: Fury Road in 2013. Ben was moving arsenic a stuntman and Riley was successful the cast. The archetypal clip they hung retired outside of enactment was astatine Riley’s friend’s location successful Sydney. “We had a mates of drinks and I retrieve we had a connection,” Riley said successful the Vogue Australia essay, adding that they salsa danced unneurotic and shared their archetypal buss by the extremity of the night. Ben and Riley announced their engagement in August 2014.
Ben joined Riley successful Napa Valley.
Ben and Riley tied the knot successful Napa, California connected February 4, 2015. But that wasn’t the couple’s lone wedding! “Technically, our archetypal wedding was successful Nepal, due to the fact that we were determination gathering a schoolhouse a mates of weeks earlier we got married,” Riley revealed via Vogue Australia. “The families knew we were getting joined and they said, ‘Let america propulsion you a Hindu wedding.’ It was truthful beauteous and, successful immoderate ways, that wedding was a small much intimate and truly special,” Riley besides said. “That wedding, I cried. At my bigger wedding I was a small nervous, I wasn’t arsenic present. But it was inactive arsenic arsenic amazing.”
Riley besides praised Ben successful the Vogue Australia essay, saying, “My hubby is specified a bully person. He’s calm and loyal and beardown and sensitive. He’s my champion friend.”
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