MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive Producer , Producer
Birth name Frank Anthony Grillo
Nationality American
Birth June 8, 1963 (New York)
BIOGRAPHY
Of Italian origin, Frank Grillo was born in New York where he studied business. The sportsman’s physique which he inherited thanks to his passions for athletics, boxing and martial arts, allowed him to appear in several advertisements for American television and magazines. Balancing sport and community life, he also manages to land small roles in series and films. We see him appear for example in 1993 in season 3 of Below Palm Beach or in 1996 in Deadly Charades , a film by Kelley Cauthen .
From 2002, he began to establish himself as a series actor by participating in season 4 of New York Special Unit and the first season of The Shield . He then introduced himself much more into the world of cinema by playing the role of Andy alongside Cameron Diaz in the romantic comedy Allumeuses! (2002). He also plays a police officer in Minority Report (id.) by Steven Spielberg , a role that suits him. The actor with an athletic physique was then asked for the needs of the successful series Prison Break (2005) where his character allowed him to be better known to the public. He also plays a detective in the series Blind Justice (id.) then in the TV films Hollis & Rae (2006) and Blue Blood (2008).
In 2007, Frank played Mr. Pig among the regular actors in the series Kill Point: In the Line of Fire . His momentum on the big screen was affirmed with the character of Eddie Carbone in The Price of Loyalty by Gavin O’Connor in 2008. The same director would later return to him in his poignant Warrior (2011) in the role of the trainer. by Joel Edgerton . In 2010, Grillo played the leading role in the American horror series The Gates and thus opened the doors to the world of horror once and for all. We find him later in films of the same genre such as Mother’s Day (2010) or My Soul To Take by Wes Craven (2012).
Joe Carnahan then placed him alongside Liam Neeson in the survival adventure The Territory of Wolves (2012). Second knife whose face and build are now known, Frank Grillo finds himself facing Bruce Willis in Lady Vegas by Stephen Frearsbefore returning to a more tense atmosphere with the brutal End of Watch , Intersection and Homefront where he strongly stands up to combat techniques specialist Jason Statham . Very active, he followed up with the blockbuster Captain America, the Winter Soldier (2014) in the role of the villain Crossbones.
