David Alan Grier Biography

Countless theater television film and comedic endeavors have charted David Alan Grier's career’s path to stellar heights and his ability to excel across all mediums and contexts is a testament to his inherent sense of comic timing and creative drive. The Tony and GRAMMY Award nominee was trained in Shakespeare at Yale where he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Given David’s experiential background and artistic capability it came as no surprise when Comedy Central named him as one of their “100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.”
Grier made his film debut in Streamers (1983) directed by Robert Altman for which he won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. He appeared in the Wayans Brothers’ spoof movie Dance Flick (2009).
In May 2013 David starred in the comedy Peeples opposite Kerry Washington and Craig Robinson. The film was produced by Tyler Perry. David also starred in The Watsons Go To Birmingham a Hallmark Channel adaptation of Paul Curtis’ 1996 Newbery Award-winning novel by the same name.

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