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- Ben Smith-Petersen is an Australian actor and stuntman.
- He was married to actress Riley Keough.
- He has a daughter with Riley.
- He attended the funeral of Riley’s mother, Lisa Marie Presley.
Ben Smith-Petersen be a loving husband Riley Keough, especially after the tragedy. Ben supports American honey 31-year-old actress with her mother Lisa Marie Presley‘S funeral service in charming country in Memphis, Tennessee on January 22. He read a letter written by Riley as a tribute to her mother and reveal the couple secretly pick up their daughter together. “Thank you for showing me that love is the most important thing in this life. I hope I can love my daughter the way you have loved me,” Ben read at the ceremony.
Riley is leaning on her husband as she struggles with the loss of her mother. So who is Ben Smith-Petersen? Here’s everything you need to know about him.
Ben is Australian.
Ben was born and raised in Australia, where he met Riley. “Falling in love in Australia is amazing. He started taking me all over Sydney to the little places he loved,” recalled Riley in a 2022 essay for Australian fashion magazine. She also revealed that they got the same tattoos in Australia on their third day out.
He works as a stuntman.
Ben worked as a stunt actor on film at least since 2011. Some of the movies he has done include Arena mortal: Flammability, Mad Max: Road of Rage, suicide squad, Peter rabbit, three bordersand suicide squadfollow him IMDb. He also did the stunts for the upcoming Crazy Max prequel main character Chris Hemsworth.
He is also an actor.
As an actor, Ben worked with Riley in the 2014 short film Sparks and light. He will appear in the upcoming horror movie Death and upcoming TV comedy kick meaccording to his IMDb.
He met Riley on set.
Ben and Riley met in Australia while doing reshoots on Crazy Max: Road of Rage in 2013. Ben was working as a stuntman and Riley joined the cast. Their first outing outside of work was at a friend of Riley’s in Sydney. “We had a few drinks and I remember we had a connection,” Riley said in Australian fashion magazine essay, adding that they danced salsa together and shared their first kiss at the end of the night. Ben and Riley engagement announcement in August 2014.
Ben married Riley in Napa Valley.
Ben and Riley knot in Napa, California on February 4, 2015. But it wasn’t the couple’s only wedding! Riley revealed via Australian fashion magazine. “The family knew we were getting married and they said, ‘Let us do you a Hindu wedding.’ It was beautiful and in a way, it was a little more intimate and really special,” Riley also said. “That wedding, I cried. At my older wedding, I was a little nervous, I wasn’t present. But it’s still just as great.”
Riley also praised Ben in Australian fashion magazine wrote: “My husband is a good man. He is calm and loyal, strong and sensitive. He is my best friend.”
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