Brian was born in San Francisco, California and raised in the East Bay. Active as a youth in sports Brian participated in football and ran track in college. He majored in English and Psychology while attending California State University at Chico, he also earned a AA degree in Film at San Francisco City College. After moving to San Francisco in the early 1990s he participated in a number of theatrical productions as well as in a number of independent films. After traveling for a few years he moved to Los Angeles in 2004.