Eric Violette |

Eric Violette

Actor/Musician

Host: Basima Farhat

Previously Aired On: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 – Listen to the Show!

Eric Violette has been embraced by Americans as that cute guy down on his luck in a series of Free Credit Report dot com TV commercials.

In October 2007, the TV commercials featured Eric Violette as a man struggling with difficult life circumstances due to his poor credit score, and his ignorance of it. The commercials feature jingles written using various distinctive forms of popular music. If you watch TV, you’ve probably seen them all – the one with Eric at the Renaissance Fair, as a pirate in a restaurant, living in the basement with his girlfriend, or driving an old beat up compact car.

Violette was born June 12, 1981 in Montreal and attended the National Theatre School of Canada in 2002. The commercials prepared by David Muhlenfeld at the The Martin Agency began appearing in October 2007. Due to Violette’s Canadian French accent, his voice has been dubbed in the United States. He earlier did a Sirius Satellite Radio commercial in French.

In Eric’s own words:

“Hi everyone, I’m an actor/musician from Montréal (Québec) so I’m french… but fluent in english too. I’m a trained actor who studied at the National theatre school of Canada. If you wanna have an idea of my professionnal experiences, go see my official website. I have more experience in theatre, I love to build characters; I like them with many layers. While I was at the National theatre school, I saw a piano and I looked at it with the eyes of a lover and listened to it with the ears of a child. My singing teacher taught me some piano basics. When I finished the school, I also left the piano… It’s very heavy so I wasn’t able to steal it. But I took my father’s guitar, it’s lighter than a piano. I composed my first song in 2008 and have never stopped… I wrote about 30 songs last year and I recorded some stuff I really like (that’s right my studio is in my basement). I like to explore a lot of styles. Have a nice day. Peace.