Ralph Clemente

Ralph is fourth generation European show business. His great grandfather was a theatrical architect and his grandfather was the head of AAFA Studios in Berlin. His mother was granted the first license for theater in the American Zone after World War II. Clemente's first professional appearance in show business was at age two where his first theatrical performance was as the son of renowned German actor Curt Jurgens. At 14, Clemente, his mother, sister and brother, moved to the U.S. He couldn't speak any English, and learned by watching a lot of TV. His mother opened the Laura Tolins School of Acting in Sarasota where he took acting lessons. Laura was a graduate of the State Theater in Berlin and a first generation student of Stanislavsky. Clemente says his mother could get a performance out of a kitchen sink. She was still teaching and directing plays until a few months before her death in 2006 at the age of 86. After his discharge, Clemente joined his family in Miami, got his SAG ca