Jeff Riberdy
- Actor
Jeff Thomas Riberdy II was born in Weisbaden, Germany. His father served 24 years in the military as an Army Black Hawk pilot; Jeff grew up in Killeen, Fort Hood, Texas with his mother Marcie, his father Jeff, and his brother Ray Michael, where he fell in love with sports and competition. Riberdy's first passion is baseball, and being a bit of a loner, the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball team became a close friend as he watched every game on TV with an intense excitement.
At the age of 19, Riberdy seized the opportunity to move to New York City where he began pursuing acting. Jeff never realized just how much inner life he was holding in until he began expressing himself fully through the art. It is the high that motivates him to find the deepest truth in every character he plays. In search of a way to develop his craft, and find that emotional life that he held back most of his life, Riberdy found William Esper Studios where he's now an alumni of the two-year conservatory.
In his fourth ever audition Jeff landed a role in Devil Boys From Beyond which won most-outstanding play in the 2009 Fringe Festival and was nominated for a GLAAD Award. The play then moved off-Broadway a year later at New York City's New World Stages. Now with many film and theatre credits, such as the short film Awesome_FCK which was accepted to the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, as well as the 2015 Provincetown Film Festival, and the short, prequel film Consumed, in which he played the renowned character Aro of the Twilight Saga as part of a script and filmmakers competition produced by Stephanie Meyer and Lionsgate, he's proving to be a strong working actor.
At the age of 19, Riberdy seized the opportunity to move to New York City where he began pursuing acting. Jeff never realized just how much inner life he was holding in until he began expressing himself fully through the art. It is the high that motivates him to find the deepest truth in every character he plays. In search of a way to develop his craft, and find that emotional life that he held back most of his life, Riberdy found William Esper Studios where he's now an alumni of the two-year conservatory.
In his fourth ever audition Jeff landed a role in Devil Boys From Beyond which won most-outstanding play in the 2009 Fringe Festival and was nominated for a GLAAD Award. The play then moved off-Broadway a year later at New York City's New World Stages. Now with many film and theatre credits, such as the short film Awesome_FCK which was accepted to the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, as well as the 2015 Provincetown Film Festival, and the short, prequel film Consumed, in which he played the renowned character Aro of the Twilight Saga as part of a script and filmmakers competition produced by Stephanie Meyer and Lionsgate, he's proving to be a strong working actor.
