PRESS: “Clowning around pays off for Phoenix native”
Publication: The Arizona Republic
By: Alison Stanton
Special for The Arizona Republic
Sept. 18, 2007
Ever since he was a little boy, Ben Giroux has had both acting and comedy in his blood.
“I was that 4-year-old running around the house having my parents film me on an old antiquated video recorder,” he said, laughing. “I was the class clown, and a complete goof, and somewhere there is a photo of my Dad holding me up to the TV to watch The Three Stooges when I was 2 years old.”
Giroux, 22, and the son of Alan and Marsha Giroux, owners of All About Books & Comics in Phoenix, said he is determined to make a career out of his love of acting and comedy.
So far, it appears he is well on his way to achieving his dream.
Since graduating from Sunnyslope High School in 2003 and the University of Southern California, Giroux, now a Los Angeles resident, landed a guest role in the second season of the USA Network’s hit comedy Psych. The episode aired back in August.
Giroux will also appear in Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s upcoming FOX pilot episode of Unhitched that will air sometime next year.
Giroux said he is living proof that with a lot of hard work, anyone can achieve their dream.
“Literally, I feel like the luckiest kid on the planet,” he said. “You have to be the most determined person in the world and if you are, good things will happen to you.”
