Ken Thompson(VIII)
- Actor
Ken Thompson was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1983. He was
only a year old when he and his parents moved back to the United
States. His father being a doctor in the military, he spent his
childhood and adolescent years in Hawaii and later Georgia before
moving to North Carolina to attend college. Following his graduation
from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he was a
Business Marketing major, he moved to New York City to model and pursue
acting. His first acting audition was for the role of Rusty in the
Indie NASCAR film "Ta Ra Rum Pum" by Yash Raj Films. Ironically, the
film took him back to North Carolina where a portion of the movie was
filmed on location at the North Carolina Motor Speedway.