Greg Grunberg
Greg Grunberg was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on July 11th, 1966 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 57, Greg Grunberg biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Gregory Phillip Grunberg (born July 11, 1966) is an American television and film actor.
He is best known for starring as Eric Weiss in the ABC series Alias, Matt Parkman in the NBC series Heroes, "Snap" Wexley in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Phil in A Star Is Born.
He has often appeared in works produced and directed by his childhood friend J. J. Abrams like Felicity as Sean Blumberg.
He was a recurring cast member in the first two seasons of the Showtime American television drama series Masters of Sex.
Early life
Grunberg was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Sandy (née Klein) and Gerry Grunberg and had a Jewish upbringing. He attended University High School in West Los Angeles, class of 1984.
Personal life
In 1992, Grunberg married Elizabeth Dawn Wershow. They have three children: Jake, Ben, and Sam. Jake has epilepsy, which has inspired Grunberg to take an active role in raising awareness of the neurological disorder and raising funds for research.
He often organizes charity efforts to raise funds for the Pediatric Epilepsy Project in Los Angeles. In the past, this has included events such as an auction of guitars handpainted by celebrities such as Donald Trump, Pink and Grunberg's Alias co-stars Jennifer Garner and Michael Vartan as well as concerts by the Band From TV that includes Grunberg and Hugh Laurie and an online auction of cartoons drawn of his Heroes costars.
In March 2007, Greg served as the chair of the first National Walk for Epilepsy, presented by the Epilepsy Foundation.
In 2009, Grunberg launched Talk About It, a website dedicated to epilepsy education and awareness, featuring many of Greg's co-stars and celebrity friends, including Garner, Larter, Pasdar, Ramamurthy, Ventimiglia, Panettiere, as well as Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Ron Rifkin, and John Mayer. The site features Grunberg interviewing top epilepsy experts on the need to talk more about epilepsy, and includes a section for people all over the world to talk about it.
Grunberg was a participant in the first-ever national television advertising campaign supporting donations to Jewish federations. The program featured "film and television personalities celebrating their Jewish heritage and promoting charitable giving to the Jewish community" and included Marlee Matlin, Joshua Malina, Kevin Weisman, and Jonathan Silverman. He made a tongue-in-cheek promotional video for Temple Judea Religious School lambasting boring Hebrew Religious schools.
Grunberg is one of the hosts of Social Tron Live, a Twitch channel, in a segment called Greg Grunberg live where he plays video games with fellow celebrities, comedians, and popular Twitch streamers.
Career
In Matt Stone and Trey Parker's 1998 film BASEketball, Grunberg appeared for his first credit appearance. He appeared on Felicity from 1998 to 2002. Eric Weiss on Alias appeared from 2001 to 2006. He departed the show as a regular to star on the NBC sitcom Grand Union. Since 2003, Abrams had planned The Catch, a comedy about a bounty hunter starring Grunberg in the lead role. The series was never planned for both the 2004-05 and the 2005-06 seasons, but a pilot episode was shot.
Grunberg appeared in a brief role in the 2004 film Lost as the pilot. Grunberg appeared on the first-season finale but his scenes were cut for time and were instead included on the season 1 DVD set. He also appeared in a small capacity in Mission: Impossible III, which Abrams directed.
Grunberg appeared on NBC TV show Heroes, and he was one of the principals. Matt Parkman, a police officer with the ability of telepathy, appeared on police officer Matt Parkman. On House, Grunberg appeared as a guest. He had been invited to Star Trek, which Abrams produced, but he was unable to attend due to a deadline with another venture he was working on (though he provided the voice for Kirk's stepfather in the opening sequence). In the video game Condemned: Criminal Origins, Grunberg plays FBI agent Ethan Thomas.
Grunberg is best known as one of the Yowza's creators outside of acting. A GPS-aware coupon-referring service is available on both Android and iPhone.
In the animated film The Super Hero Squad Show, he also voices Ant-Man. Grunberg was featured on the May/June 2009 issue of Making Music magazine. Grunberg revealed on May 17, 2010 that he would be in Love Bites' cast.
Hugo Moller, a minor character in the 2011 neo-noir detective game L.A. Noire, in which he provided both voice and facial motion capture as a murder suspect Hugo Moller. He appeared on the television series Hawaii Five-0 with former Heroes co-star Masi Oka on November 7, 2011. On the March 14, 2012, episode of the television show Psychiatry, he appeared as a special guest star.
Grunberg appeared in one episode of the television series Masters of Sex as the character Gene Moretti, a wealthy business man, in 2013. During the second season, the scene was extended to 4 episodes.
Grunberg was revealed in February 2016 that he would co-host a late night talk show with Kevin Smith called Geeking Out on AMC.
Grunberg has been a regular guest on the syndicated game show 25 Words or Less since 2019.
He appeared on a variety of 9-1-1: Lone Star in 2021 as a father struggling for the life of his son, who suffers from epilepsy. Grunberg's real life protest is echoed by this collection due to his son's epilepsy.