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Topher Grace

AKA: Topher Grace

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Birthdate: 1978-07-12

Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

While most actors struggle for years to make it in the business, Topher Grace practically fell into stardom when he captured the attention of television producers Bonnie and Terry Turner while performing in a high school play. Despite lacking ambition to become an actor – he was in school plays to get the girls – Grace was surprised to find himself a year later auditioning for “That ‘70s Show” (Fox, 1998-2006). Even more surprising, he was cast to play the lead role of Eric Foreman, a teenager in 1970s suburban Wisconsin trying to break free from his innocent boy-next-door reputation. Grace lent an endearing, everyman charm to the role during the show’s unexpected eight season run, establishing himself as a bright, charismatic and consummately prepared actor who throughout his career avoided...
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Credits

Title Distributor Role Release
Win a Date With Tad Ha... Red Wagon Entertainment Actor 01-23-2004
In Good Company Focus Features Actor 12-29-2004
Ocean's Eleven Jerry Weintraub Productions Actor 12-07-2001
Mona Lisa Smile Red Om Films Actor 12-19-2003
Pinocchio Melampo Cinematografica Actor 12-25-2002
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Awards

Award Category Project Year
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by the Cast o... "Traffic" 2000
National Board of Review ... Best Breakthrough Performance by an A... "In Good Company" and "P.S." 2004

Box Office

Release Title Distributor Role Domestic Box Office
01-23-2004 Win a Date With Tad Ha... Red Wagon Entertainment Actor $16,964,743
12-29-2004 In Good Company Focus Features Actor $45,489,752
12-07-2001 Ocean's Eleven Jerry Weintraub Productions Actor $183,405,771
12-19-2003 Mona Lisa Smile Red Om Films Actor $63,695,760
12-25-2002 Pinocchio Melampo Cinematografica Actor $3,681,811
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Education

Institution Location Major Degree Year range Notes
Brewster Academy Wolfeboro, NH Classmates included Lindsey Turner, the daughter of producers Bonnie and Terry Turner (producers of "That '70s Show")
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 1997-1998 Dropped out when he was cast in "That '70s Show"
Groundlings Improvisation School Los Angeles, CA

Milestones

Begin Through
1998 2005 Cast as Eric Forman on Fox's "That '70s Show"
2000 --- Feature acting debut, played a prep school student who introduces his girlfriend to heroin in director Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic"
--- --- Discovered by the producers of "That '70s Show" while playing the lead role in a local stage production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
2003 --- Appeared in director Mike Newell's "Mona Lisa Smile"
2004 --- Co-starred with Kate Bosworth and Josh Duhamel in the Robert Luketic-directed, "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton"
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Professions

Profession Type
actor primary

Relationships

Relationship Name
Companion Ivanka Trump Rumored to have briefly dated in 2006; no longer together
Companion Teresa Palmer Co-starred together in "Young Americans" (2010); reportedly dated in 2007, but split up in early 2008; rumored to have reunited in 2009
father John Grace
mother Pat Grace Works as an assistant to the schoolmaster of the Darien High School in Darien, CT

Notes

"There's a line in 'Traffic' about how some people can handle drugs and some people can't," he says. "Well, some people can't handle the fame drug. They're OD'ing on it." Smiling, he says, "some people are just using it recreationally." - Grace quoted to GQ magazine, May 2007


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