Biography

Christopher Grove

Jump to

Overview

Born
England, UK

Biography

An award-winning, veteran actor, over the past 30 years Chris has worked with the best-of-the-best on-screen and on the stage.

Most recently he was cast by writer-director-producer Sam Levinson in the third season of "Euphoria." Previously, by David Fincher as a recurring character in Fincher's Netflix series "Mindhunter," working with Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany and Michael Cerveris.

Among other credits, Chris has separately worked with two-time Academy Award-winners Ben Affleck, Viola Davis ("How To Get Away With Murder") and Sally Field ("The Court"), Academy Award-winner Matt Damon, Zetna Fuentes ("This Is Us"), Michael Sheen ("Masters of Sex"), Walton Goggins ("Justified") and Golden Globe winning actor/director Richard Benjamin ("The Pentagon Wars.")

Chris moved to Los Angeles in 1986 after being cast in the play "Rat in the Skull" by Ron Hutchinson at the Mark Taper Forum with the late Charlie Hallahan. He has worked steadily in film, television, theater and commercials ever since.

Born and raised in Canada to English parents, Chris moved to the U.S. from Toronto in 1982 to go to acting school. He subsequently went to England to study at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where he was a classmate of actress/producer Rita Wilson (wife of Tom Hanks).

His first professional acting job was at the N.Y. Shakespeare Festival in Henry V starring Kevin Kline and directed by the late, Tony Award-winning director Wilford Leach.

For the past decade, Chris has trained extensively with well-known Toronto-based acting coach David Rotenberg, founder of the Professional Actors Lab.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Family

Spouse

Trivia

Has an undergraduate degree in history and political science from the University of Toronto. Has a masters degree in print journalism from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where he graduated at the top of his class.
At one time, worked both as a print and broadcast journalist. His favorite posting was running a one-man bureau for an NBC-affiliate in Oregon.
Worked with two-time Academy Award-winning director Ben Affleck and Academy Award winner Matt Damon and Manchester United football legend Sir David Beckham on two Super Bowl LIX award-winning Stella Artois commercials in 2025. The cinematographer on the project was four-time Academy Award winner Robert Richardson.
Picked as First Prize winner in Fade In Magazine's 2003 Screen Test competition by a panel of top agents, producers, casting agents and managers (out of over 800 entries worldwide).
He was awarded the 1989 Los Angeles Weekly Award for Outstanding Male Performance in a One Act for "Making Noise Quietly," at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California.