Brian DePersia

Born to Marleen and Gary DePersia. After his parents divorce, his mother remarried and they moved to Stamford, Connecticut with Brian's new stepfather Harvey Goodman. It was during this time that he acted in _Deadtime Stories (1987)_. At age 10 they moved to Saranac Lake, New York where they had purchased a 150 acre ranch. Although a life long skier he was one of the first people in his area to introduce snowboarding to the local mountains. He eventually gravitated back to skiing and raced on and off throughout his high school and college years. He participated in a number of high school productions which probably helped reawaken his interest in the industry. Attended and graduated from Skidmore College in 2000. After turning down a spot at Fordham Law School,he began in the mail room at William Morris Agency in NYC in the summer of 2000. Eventually found a position as assistant with agent Jeffrey Hunter for whom he worked for nearly a year before transferring to the Beverly Hills office. After working as an assistant under Jason Barrett, he has, for the past eighteeen months, been the assistant to WMA head honcho Jim Wiatt.