- Kristian was awarded by Barack Obama with the President's Volunteer Service Award for exceptional commitment and effort in international service and helping low income communities. Ventura has traveled to serve the Dominican Republic, U.K., and France.
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristian wrote two books. The first was nominated as a finalist for the American Fiction Awards. The following year, his second collection 'The Goodbye Song' won the award in the Anthologies category.
- In his freshman year of college, the University of Southern California honored Kristian with the 2018 USC Service Award for outstanding leadership in homeless shelters, food banks, and schools.
- Kristian took up classical ballet with Kathy Dunn at the Kaufman School of Dance in Los Angeles.
- Soon after graduating from USC, Kristian studied French at UCLA.
- In an interview with Wonderland Magazine, as seen on carpets and interviews, Ventura only wears the colors black and purple when not shooting a project. He says, "It's a discipline that contributes to the characters I play. The second I put on a new color, green or blue, my body reacts. I get startled. You can further appreciate a costume when all year round you haven't worn much else.".
- In high school, his principal asked Kristian to do the morning announcements, instead of himself. Classrooms would light up. Then, the administration created their first school mascot, a Noble, selecting Kristian to start off the legacy, where he performed for football and basketball games.
- To hone his on-camera acting skills during college, Ventura performed in over one hundred short films with film schools in Los Angeles, such as USC and AFI.
- Does not watch new movies or television shows. He explains how strongly he loves fiction, but says it is more important to preserve the source of life by observing real human behavior, not a regurgitation of it.
- He has a valid motorcycle license.
- He plays guitar and piano.
- In his role as Richard III directed by Kathleen S. Dunn, Kristian designed his fight choreography scenes to injure each of his enemies in a combat scheme that replicated Richard's own deformity. That way, at the end of every battle, his enemies would, like him, have an injured right knee, arm, spinal wound before dying.
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