Petar Rnic was born in London in 1948 to a Serbian father and English mother. He was trained by Stuart Mullins at stage school before he started acting in 1999. He was also bodyguard to the Serbian Royal Family, and World, European and British Tug of War Champion. His first major film was Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees which was premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2003 and also won best picture at The Bite the Mango Film Festival 2003.