Rick Genest

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rick Genest
Occupation	Tattoo Artist
Date Of Birth	Aug 7, 1985(1985-08-07)
Age	39
Date Of Death	2018-08-01
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Leo

Rick Genest Biography

Rick Genest is one of the most popular and richest Tattoo Artist who was born on August 7, 1985 in Canada. After being diagnosed with a brain tumour, he tattooed skeletal designs all over his body. He was known as Zombie Boy.

He and He and Lady Gaga appeared together in a 2011 fashion show, and Genest was also a featured performer in her “Born This Way” music video. were seen together at a 2011 fashion show. Genest was also featured in her “Born This Way” music video.

Tattooed as a living skeleton, Genest also worked in various sideshows and freak shows across Canada as an illustrated man. Not long after beginning his facial tattoos, Genest was first introduced to the public on November 13, 2006 in a blog post on BME’s ModBlog, which was followed in March 2008 by his first interview, by which time his tattoos were largely completed. In this interview Genest clarified that he preferred the moniker “Zombie” to “Skullboy”, as BME had been referring to him.

The introductions on RzyM’s Channel led to increasingly mainstream media coverage, notably a June 2008 feature in Bizarre magazine. In the 2009 television film Carny, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as a small town sheriff, Genest was seen as a Tattooed Man at the Carnival. Following, he was again discovered by Marc Quinn, in Bromont, Quebec, where Genest was working with the sideshow, Alive on the Inside, at Carnivàle Lune Bleue during the summer of 2010.

His family lived in Quebec, Canada at the time he was born.

Rick Genest Net Worth

Rick Genest is one of the richest Tattoo Artist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rick Genest 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After surviving surgery to remove a brain tumor, he adopted a life of hitchhiking and vagrancy before finally deciding to get tattoos.

He was promoting Dermablend makeup products by appearing in an ad where his tattoos were covered.

Rick Genest (August 7, 1985 – August 1, 2018), also known as Zombie Boy, was a Canadian artist, actor, fashion model, and musician. He held a Guinness World Record for his full-body tattoos.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Rick Genest Dating?

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In late 2011, Genest was featured in a campaign entitled “Go Beyond the Cover”, promoting Dermablend professional makeup products, appearing in a video where a makeup team covered all the tattoos on his head, torso, arms, and part of his back in its concealer product. The advert then shows him sitting with the phrase “How do you judge a book?”. He then proceeds to remove portions of the makeup, starting with a section of his chest to reveal the tattoo underneath, continuing to his face. The video then shows the process of applying the cover up played backwards. The commercial success of this campaign led to a 2-year endorsement contract with L’Oreal for Genest, who became its first ever male spokesperson. Genest also appeared in the music video of the Polish pop singer Honey. The video for her song “Sabotage” was released on January 19, 2012.

Facts & Trivia

Rick Ranked on the list of most popular Tattoo Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Rick Genest celebrates birthday on August 7 of every year.

He was cast as the character “Foreman” in the 2013 film 47 Ronin, featuring Keanu Reeves. Genest was featured in the marketing for the film, appearing on posters and in trailers; however, due to various post-process tensions, stemming from the 2011 version of the film in which Universal executives wanted Reeves to become a more integral part of the film, Genest was largely edited out of the final version.

What happened to Rick Genest?

The Quebec coroner has ruled that Rick Genest died of head trauma after falling from a balcony on the third floor of a building.

Who tattooed Rick Genest?

Genest grew up in the Montreal punk scene and began getting tattoos aged 19, many from tattoo artist Frank Lewis – they eventually covered his whole body, most eye-catchingly a skull tattooed on his face, and an apparently exposed brain on his scalp.

How old is Rick Genest?

32 years (1985–2018)

How tall is Rick Genest?

5′ 10″

Where is Zombie Boy now?

Genest, better known as “Zombie Boy”, died from a severe head injury after falling from a third-floor balcony in Montreal, Canada , according to the coroner’s report. He was famous for his extensive body art, including bone and organ tattoos covering much of his body.