Born in Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany, Christian Oliver relocated to the USA to work as a model, changing his focus to acting and taking acting lessons in New York and Los Angeles. He landed the recurring role of Brian Keller in the 1994 series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, followed by the role of Luca in the 1995 movie The Baby-Sitters Club.
Christian Oliver died at the age of 51, along with his daughters, in a plane crash off the coast of Bequia in the Caribbean
