Originally a member of the barbershop group "Aftershave".
Has 3 sons, Carl-Johan (born 1989), Jakob (born 1991) and Wilhelm (born 1996), with Elisabeth Seth Rippe.
Did the voice of Pumbaa in the Swedish version of Disney's The Lion King. After Peter Rangmar, Timon's Swedish voice, died of cancer in May 1997, Rippe, who was close friends with Rangmar, declined to appear in the sequels.