Pierre Roland (born Pierre Roland Christy; 14 April 1979 in
Bengkulu, Indonesia) is an Indonesian actor.
He is known as Pierre Roland and is famous for his
role
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as a
super hero
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in a hit
TV series
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"Gerhana" (RCTI,1999-2002). He has also appeared on
films
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and other TV series as well as
music videos
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,
advertisements
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(
magazine
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s,
television
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,
billboards
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) and as TV presenter. His parents are
of mixed Indonesian and European ancestry: father is English/Indonesian (Bengkulu) while his mother is Dutch/Indonesian (Javanese/Manadonese).
He is also a film producer with his first filmed produced by his own production house, Pilot Project Production, about a
Bali
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nese girl who lost her mother in the first
Bali Bombing, titled "Angel's Cry".
Pierre Roland is currently in a few number of TV series in
Indonesia
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, one of them is "Mimpi Manis", where he is acting alongside one of the most famous
Indonesia
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n
Dangdut
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singers,
Dewi Persik
Dewi Muria Agung (born 16 December 1985), better known by her stage name Dewi Persik (also spelled Dewi Perssik) and nicknamed Depe after her monogram, is an Indonesian dangdut singer.
Biography
Persik was born Dewi Muria Agung in Jember, East J ...
.
He is known to be one of the artists that do not like media exposure on his private life.
In the middle of July 2006, the public and media were shocked by the rumours that Pierre Roland was recently married. The wedding ceremony was a low profile one held at a church in
Jakarta
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, attended only by family and friends. However, the information of the venue and time somehow leaked out on the day of the wedding day; causing the reporters to gather at the front of the church. At the end of event, the family and the guests managed to get the reporters mixed up (thinking that the bride and the groom had already left the venue). The wedding was said to be one of the very few unexposed weddings of Indonesian celebrities. A few days later, the couple finally made an official announcement in an interview by two
Indonesia
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n TV stations.
Pierre Roland's Indonesian-born
Macau
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resident wife, Bonita Adela, gave birth to their first-born son, Olivier DeAngello Christy, at the
Hospital Kiang Wu
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in Macau in 2007. Another son, Ezekiel Kramer Christy, was also born at the same hospital in
Macau
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in 2010.
Trivia
* Pierre Roland is the nephew of high-profile Indonesian actor, Agus Melazt.
* Pierre Roland is a devout
Christian
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.
* Pierre Roland's wife, whose family and relatives are mostly based in
Macau
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, is the niece-in-law of former
Indonesia
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n actress
Tjempaka Blanco (sister of
Balinese painter
Mario Blanco, and daughter of
Spanish American
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turned
Balinese painter
Antonio Blanco with his Balinese wife Ni Ronji). She is of Mongolian, Chinese, Indonesian (Manadonese and Sundanese), and Dutch ancestry.
References
1979 births
Indo people
Indonesian people of Dutch descent
Indonesian people of English descent
Javanese people
Minahasa people
Indonesian Christians
Indonesian male film actors
Indonesian male television actors
Living people
People from Jakarta
Indonesian film producers
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