If you imagine a climber who is afraid of heights, or a submariner who feels quite uncomfortable under the thickness of the water, then such a person will feel very similar to an American actor named Brian Krause, who has to be at ease when he it is necessary to make contact with representatives of the media. Such is a strange and inexplicable natural phenomenon, its incomprehensible gift for a young and successful person. After all, from the very beginning of his career in cinema, he is monstrously shy and painfully blushing when there is at least a tiny hint of a compliment.
Childhood
On the first day of the last winter month - February - in the family in which there was already a son, another baby was born. At birth, he received the name Brian Krause. His Homeland - El Toro, California. His mom and dad are Alice and Jeff Krause.
As a child, little Brian Jeffrey dreamed that when he grows up, he will become a doctor. And he really wanted to make a good career in sports medicine. When he reached his sixteenth birthday, he gathered all his abilities and desires and enrolled in his first professional acting class. At the same time, Brian Krause, whose photo over time could be seen in many glossy magazines, began to make his first and rather successful steps on television.
Debut role
The second half of the eighties brought the actor several roles in television series: “TV-101”, “Way to Heaven” and some others. They did not bring him world fame, but gave him invaluable experience in working on television and in a team.
The first role, which brought him not only popularity and fame, but also the love of the weak half of humanity, Brian Krause received in 1991. It was then that he was invited to the film "Return to the Blue Lagoon" (the character of the actor, by the way, is an ethnic German, Richard Lestrange). He played a duet with Mila Jovovich, who at that time was only fifteen years old. The producers planned to make a film-continuation of the story of eleven years ago - "The Blue Lagoon." And their ideas came true as well as possible.
By nature, Brian Krause, filmography which from this moment began to actively replenish with more and more new roles, has great shyness. During the filming of the film, he felt very uncomfortable when, according to the script, it was necessary to run along a huge beach, dressed only in a loincloth. But be that as it may, the role of Lestrange benefited the young actor: he gained such experience and certain fame that he needed at the beginning of his creative career.
Lessons learned from life
This first role was remembered by the actor for a long time. In the film, he played the role of a young man who knows absolutely nothing about the world that surrounds him; about what is happening in this world; how to exit without loss from certain life situations. During the filming that took place on the island of Fiji, Brian Jeffrey Krause watched the locals with great interest, watched how they easily reconciled with the presence of strangers from the crew, how they enjoy life, not paying attention to petty troubles.
After the end of the filming process, the young actor tried to apply the experience to the most diverse aspects in his life, trying not to miss a single one. Now he has learned to appreciate the people who are next to him, and everything that surrounds him in one way or another. Even when friends often made fun of him, remembering the role of Richard, he always joked or with a smile told them about the benefits that he received during the filming.
To be completely honest, we must admit the fact that the film did not bring much commercial success, because it was an almost perfect repetition of the first part of the picture. But thanks to a certain fame gained after the film, Brian Krause played in the film "Lunatic". The script came from the pen of Stephen King. In this horror movie, the actor played a werewolf, who, like his mother in the film, could not live long without the blood of young girls.
An important milestone in the life of Brian began shooting a series of films about the bandit. It was at this time that he met his future wife, Beth Bruce, who was a fashion model. That was in 1994. In his acting career, trilogies, an erotic film (in which he played with Pamela Anderson) and many other paintings appeared in these same years.
Who are you, Leo: Guardian, husband or Elder?
Despite the fact that by the beginning of the second millennium Krause was already famous, after he took part in the famous TV series “Charmed”, his popularity began to simply go wild, he became literally a favorite of the whole people.
Initially, his role - the Guardian of the Enchanted Witch Sisters - was not planned very large. His character is a soldier who was killed in the war several decades ago, who after his death became a doctor, a healer (however, as he had dreamed in life, but the war prevented the realization of this dream), and later, when the three sisters joined together and regained their strength, becoming the most powerful witches, the Council of Elders appointed him their guardian angel. In his first appearances in the series, Leo Wyeth is a little soft-bodied and shy. By the third season, when his character became one of the central ones and acquired an almost iron character, combining a legal marriage with the middle of the Piper sisters, which happened contrary to his masters from heaven, the audience’s love and admiration for the actor simply went wild.
But even having gained such fame and popularity, Brian still felt rather uncomfortable when people approached him on the street for an autograph or asking for a picture. He was always extremely polite, because he understood that this was part of his profession. At the same time, he was terribly shy and embarrassed.
This series Krause loves as a true fan. He talks about his colleagues on the set with admiration and respect, paying tribute to their talent and efficiency. Always and in all interviews he said that the entire series "rests on girls who are big smarties." And no matter how journalists try to get him some “fried information”, they never succeeded. Even after the scandalous departure from the series, Shannon Doherty, who played the first three seasons of her older sister Halliwell - Prudence (Prue).
Family, romance, divorce
Brian Krause, whose biography is now daily under the scrutiny of his loyal fans, still married Beth Bruce. Family life developed very well, and in 1996 the family increased by one small and dear to both of them people - they had a son, Jaimen. Perhaps it was the curiosity of the journalists that served as the impetus for the beginning of the irreparable changes that occurred over time in their happy (so far) family life. It was the people, armed with feathers, ballpoint pens, and voice recorders, who tried to get into the soul of the actor’s wife and find out what she thinks about the screen novel of her husband, playing the role of Leo, and Holly Mary Combs, who plays the role of Piper Halliwell in “Charmed”. Krause vowed that the whole “love-carrot" exists only on the screen. Outside the set, they are only friends and nothing but this. And everything seemed to be fine, but the wife felt something. At home, she said that she was leaving for several days with relatives. Krause instantly drove over the weekend a new lady of the heart, who turned out to be Alice Milano (the youngest enchanted) in Malibu, where they were under the gun of the paparazzi. And at home their wife was waiting for them. At the same time, photographs of Alice and Brian appeared in periodicals. Some of the common acquaintances of the spouses said that quiet Brian made a scandal for his wife, packed up his things and left home. So after five years of married life in early January 2001, the marriage broke up. Despite this, they raise their son together. The affair with Milano ended the same year.