Bam Marguer is a talented skateboarder, actor and screenwriter. Biography, movies, personal life

Professional skateboarder and successful actorBam Margera is known for his funny and unique, sometimes dangerous stunts. It was he who invented the crazy reality show Viva la Bam, popular all over the world.

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Bam Margera - Famous Americanskateboarder, film actor, director and screenwriter. September 28, 2016 he turned 37 years old. Bam was born in the United States, in the city of Chester in Pennsylvania. His father's name is Phil, and his mother - April, in the family Margera - not one son. A professional skateboarder has a brother for the year - Jess, who works in a musical group and acts in film.

Bam is not the real name of the actor. This nickname, by which the whole world knows him, came up with his own grandfather when the kid was about 3 years old. Little Margera was very restless, he was very fond of running into crashing into the wall, while making the sound "bam." That is why grandfather dubbed him Bam. The real name of the American star is Brandon Cole Margera.

The skateboarder attended courses at the Higher Eastern School, but he was soon expelled for constant fights and scandals.

Bam calls his real friends Ryan Dunn and Brandon Dicamillo.

First Steps to Fame

Bam Margera became a member of the Element team. This brand is a world leader in the production of skateboards, surfing and things for an active lifestyle.

The young man never sat idle, helooking for myself, trying something new. He often attended castings and many times claimed to shoot commercials of famous American brands. He became a representative of companies such as Speed ​​Metal Bearings and Adio.

From an early age, Bam Margera isthe participant of various festivals and competitions in skateboarding. And in 1999, a twenty-year-old athlete tried himself as an actor. He and his friends appeared in several clips of the music band Sky, in which his brother Jess worked as a drummer.
A year later, Bam Margera first got a role in the comedy real TV series "The Freaks".

Filmography

In 2003, Bam Margera proved himself inas a director. He created a comedy called Haggard (Haggard: The Movie), based on real events that occurred in the life of one of his friends - Ryan Dunn. In this film an athlete participated not only as a director, but also as an actor.

In the same year in the credits of the adventure comedy "Skateboarders," the name already known to many Americans was Bam Margera. Films in which the actor wanted to be removed, were supposed to be funny.

Three years later, on TV screens came outmotion picture "Fools". The main characters of the comedy were Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Johnny Knoxville. The budget of the film was more than 11 million dollars, and box office - about 85 million. In the film, reckless friends perform unique, dangerous stunts. In 2007, the sequel to the comedy "Fools 2.5" came out.

Bam Margera also starred in films such as Bam Margera Presents: Where's the Fucking Santa?

Popular reality show

In 2003, Bam Margera proved himself inas a screenwriter. The actor, along with his friends, released a television reality show Viva la Bam. It was a serial like the project "Dukes." The program was filmed Bam's parents - Phil and April, brother Jess, and his uncle - Vincent Margera. And, of course, close friends of a skateboarder: Ryan Dunn, Jimmy Pop, Brandon Dikamillo, Jenny Rivell.

The program was a great success, and not onlythe territory of the United States, but also in Europe and Asia. In the reality show, reckless stars joked a lot, showed incredible and unexpected tricks. Viva la Bam has been on television for two and a half years. Bam Margera and his team shot five seasons of an exciting reality show.

The personal life of the actor

First girl professional americanskateboarder became jenny rivell. The couple began dating in 1999, and after six years of romance, they decided to get engaged. But before the wedding it did not come, the young people broke up in 2005.

Bam Margera was not long alone, he tiedintimate relationship with his childhood friend Melissa Rovstein ("Missy"). Already in the fall of 2007, the couple had a marriage. For three years, Missy and Bam had a complicated relationship, so they divorced in 2011.

A year later, the actor married again. Nicole Boyd and Bam Margera, whose wedding took place in 2012, gave each other an oath of allegiance from the stage at a concert in Reykjavik.