Anthony LaVigne

At 21 years old I packed up my Honda Accord with everything I could fit and (against everyone's advice) drove 2,400 miles from my small, blue collar hometown - South Amboy, New Jersey to Los Angeles to pursue my TV/Film career. After 4 hours of sleep in St. Louis, two tornados in Kansas, 4 hours of sleep in Denver and getting pulled over by a Colorado State Trooper for driving too slow (Give me a break I was sleep deprived lol) I made it to LA... in one piece... in 3 days.

People frequently ask me what my earliest inspiration was to hit the weights and put on some muscle. I guess I've just always wanted to get as close as humanly possible to a real-life superhero. Growing up in the 90's some of my earliest inspirations were G.I. Joes and Popeye. It was a hard lesson for me at 14 years old when I found out all that spinach my mom convinced me to eat wasn't ACTUALLY helping me put on muscle. I'll never forget that day.

 INT. NEW JERSEY GNC - AISLE - AFTERNOON - YOUNG ANTHONY LAVIGNE, 14,  skinny, naive - Enters his local GNC. His eyes light up like a kid in a candy shop. It was at that moment he realized his mother's cans of Del Monte Spinach weren't exactly what he needed to become a walking G.I. Joe. 

PAN TO: Protein Wall 

The story continued with rigorous daily workouts. At 18 years old I began competing in Natural Bodybuilding and by 19 years old became the youngest natural professional bodybuilder on the planet (Proudly competing in the WNBF - the world's oldest natural bodybuilding federation, with the most strict/random drug testing policy) Since, I've been blessed with the opportunity to uplift and inspire others to achieve their full potential via TV/Film, commercials and my online fitness programs. 

I believe my life purpose is to motivate people to become the best version of themselves and show them that anything is possible if you're willing to put in an incredible amount of work. I like to look at Fitness & TV/Film as my chosen vehicles to carry out that purpose!

A few few of my special skills are:

Firearms 

Combat Stunts

Boxing/MMA

Parkour

Baseball

My most recent wins in TV/Film would be Guest Starring on the hit TV Show 9-1-1, Multi-Day Co-Starring on NCIS and Co-Starring on (one of my personal favorite shows) Paradise. 

When I'm not on camera, I'm focused on building LaVigne Entertainment LLC, an independent production company where we develop original film and television projects.