Born in Sydney, Australia, Eric James Gravolin was raised in Brisbane, Australia, where he moved out of home at the age of fifteen to pursue his first career in classical ballet. Training at the prestigious The Australian Ballet School, he worked with The Australian Ballet company, and after graduating, secured a contract with the Queensland Ballet, back in Brisbane. Seeking new challenges, Eric left the dance world behind in order to begin studying acting and filmmaking at the Southbank Insitutute of Technology, in Brisbane, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), in the United Kingdom. Since returning to Australia, Eric has worked across both the stage and screen. Securing guest roles on Discovery Channel's Deadly Women (2008) (2016), ABC's Black Comedy (2014) (2017) and Total Control (2019) (2019), alongside Harry Richardson . 7 Network's Between Two Worlds (2020) (2019) and Stan's The Commons (2019) (2019), alongside Joanne Froggatt and Australia's Ryan Corr . In 2020, he secured a guest role in the Hollywood independent feature film, Octopus Pot (2020) (2020), alongside Mykel Shannon Jenkins and Hafedh Dakhlaoui Second to acting, he also turned his eyes towards filmmaking. Stepping behind the camera, he wrote his first short film, The Day We (Un)Met (2017) (2017), which was short-listed for the Australian film festival, "Tropfest." Not wanting to slow down, he both co-produced and performed in the Independent Australian Kids Adventure-Fantasy film, The Legend of the Five (2020) (2020), an Independent Australian Kids Adventure-Fantasy film under the direction of Australian icon, Joanne Samuel . He also directed his first thriller, They Called Me Keith (2020), targeting the international festival circuit. - IMDb Mini Biography By: James Roberts
