AKA: Topher Grace
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Birthdate: 1978-07-12
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| Profession | Type |
|---|---|
| actor | primary |
| 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 |
"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 |