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= Brian Pinkus = Brian Henry Pinkus born on March 18th 1992 is an American/Swiss actor, stunt coordinator, stunt performer and film producer. He is known for his action scenes mainly involving comedy, martial arts and his stunts, performed by himself.

Pinkus is one of the top action performers and choreographers in Switzerland. He also gives martial arts, stunt and acting lessons for anyone wanting to join the film business as an action actor. He has appeared and created the fight choreographies in over 30 films.

Early Life
Brian's interest in martial arts and martial arts cinema began when he was three years old. His parents decided to send him to Karate lessons to learn discipline and self-defence. He immediately fell in love with the sport, so he decided to pick up Kung-Fu when he was 5, now doing 2 kinds of martial arts. He learned fast and worked hard to become a national and international champion at the age of 8, being the youngest at that time in his categories. As he continued his journey as a martial artist he picked up Muay Thai, MMA and other martial arts.

He went to the Seidenberg school in Switzerland from the first grade until the third. He didn't like it there because he though he didn't learn enough, so his parents took him out of there and sent him to the Kirchenfeld school where he learned a lot more. As he got into fifth grade he noticed again, that he didn't learn as much as he liked to. He began to help out his classmates and the class above him, so that their grades became better. The teachers themselves were blown away by the knowledge Pinkus showed. The teachers decided alongside his parents to send him to a higher education school where he'll fit in better. He spent the next 3 years there. As he got into the 9th grade he noticed that he is way ahead of his classmates again and the teachers couldn't feed him the knowledge he wanted, so his parents sent him to the International School of Bern to finish off his last years.

Film Career
Pinkus' official career began in 2013 where he was asked to play the role of Michael in German feature film "Vergessene Zeit" where he also performed stunts. He was looking around for other film jobs until he came across Turkish producer "Mano Khalil" giving him a small role in his Turkish/Swiss Feature Film "Die Schwalbe". He continued to look for more jobs, without success. Switzerland isn't famous for Film, so there weren't many jobs in that business. Brian had to find another way to follow his dreams. In 2014 he began to write a script for a short action movie. As he finished his script he made an add online with the synopsis of the script. Short after a producer wrote to him wanting to make the film. Brian in the lead assistant directed the film and created the fight choreography. The producer took all the credit for the film and didn't pay anyone with the money the movie made. One month after that tragedy Brian created his own production company called Light Flash Productions.

With his company he co-produced various Films until he met Swiss producer Uwe Schwarzwaelder who wanted him to act for his drama "The Radicalisation of Jeff Boyd". Brian read the script and found the movie idea good, so he jumped on board, giving his own ideas and suggestions until Schwarzwaelder gave Pinkus the jobs of assistant director and DoP. The movie was a worldwide success bringing in over 150 Awards all over the globe.

After the success of "The Radicalisation of Jeff Boyd" Brian was asked to starr in various movies like in "NOA", "Einsicht" and "Candyland". He was asked to create the fight choreographies and perform the stunts for the film "Streaker" being one of the most successful films produced in Switzerland of 2017. Brian created a new script for an action comedy feature film called "The Runaway" in 2017 which was filmed in 2018. This film changed action cinema for Switzerland. After seeing that movie a lot of film productions companies within Switzerland wanted fight choreographies and stunts such as the one Brian created for "The Runaway". Brian Pinkus created real action and martial arts cinema for Switzerland.