FROM SPRINGS TO HOLLYWOOD

Tony Schiena is a former South African karate champion who grew up in Springs. Nowadays the 36-year-old is surrounded by Hollywood bigwigs. He has dated American Idols judge Paula Abdul and British ex-topless model Emma Noble (ex-wife of James Major, son of former British Prime Minister John Major). Tony's father, Franco, worked in a tap-making factory and his mother, Magriet, was a housewife. He graduated from Springs Boys High. He represented the South African national karate team and coached policemen in unarmed combat. While doing security work he was discovered by Julius R Nasso, the man behind Steven Seagal’s movies. Today Tony owns a production company and was executive producer of an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome in which Al Pacino starred in.