ello, my name is Tait Ruppert, and here is a little bit about myself:

     I am 38 years old and I am an actor. I was born in New Jersey. I lived there until my sophomore year of college (I went to Kenyon College in Ohio), then moved to New York. I now live in California.

     I am a director of a theater company called "The really Spontaneous Theater Company." I play guitar and I love the Rolling Stones as well as a very wide variety of music. I am happily married to my beautiful wife Shawna Brakefield who is a film producer. She too is a Scientologist.

     This is how I got into Scientology. I am an actor and I saw other actors who I admired and I wondered why I admired them so. Was it their talent? Yes, but there was something else. They were themselves and around them I could be myself. I admired their confidence, their happiness and their spirit of play. I wanted that too.