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Christopher John Grace (born July 12, 1978), better known as Topher Grace, is an American actor best known for playing the lead role of Eric Forman on That '70s Show during the show's first seven seasons, and for appearing as the villain Eddie Brock, Jr./Venom in Spider-Man 3.
Grace was born in New York City, New York to Marina, an office worker and assistant to the schoolmaster of the New Canaan Country School in New Canaan, Connecticut, and John Grace, a business executive. Grace grew up in Brazil then moved to Darien, Connecticut, where he knew actress Kate Bosworth and was sometimes babysat by actress Chloë Sevigny, who also later appeared with him in high school stage plays. He chose to go by the name Topher in high school after becoming frustrated with his full name being abbreviated as Chris; he dropped the Chris and kept the Topher. In an interview with New York Magazine, he is claimed to have WASP descent.
Grace attended the Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts, The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire--where he was noticed by the producer of That '70s Show (whose daughter also attended the school) while playing the leading role of Pseudolus in a local stage production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Grace was cast as Eric Forman on Fox's That '70s Show, which debuted in 1998. The sitcom was successful and Grace became well known among television watchers; he played the role until 2005, after which he left the series to pursue feature film work. The series was renewed for another season despite his absence before its ending in 2006. Grace would make a very brief guest appearance in the last episode.
Grace briefly attended college at the University of Southern California, but left during his freshman year to concentrate on his television work and to pursue a career in film. He played a prep school student who uses cocaine and introduces his girlfriend to heroin in director Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film Traffic, as well as having uncredited cameos as himself in Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it's 2004 sequel, Ocean's Twelve. He planned to cameo in Ocean's Thirteen but due to his filming Spider-Man 3 he had to drop out. He also appeared in director Mike Newell's 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile.
In 2004, Grace had the starring role in two major feature films; he played the leading roles in the Robert Luketic-directed Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! and the Paul Weitz dramedy, In Good Company, in which he played an ambitious but troubled corporate executive. That same year, Grace also starred in the film P.S., which received only a limited theatrical release. Grace's work in P.S. and In Good Company was recognized by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures in the category of "Breakthrough Performance by an Actor". In 2005, Grace hosted Saturday Night Live.
From 1999-2001, Grace "casually dated" actress Anne Hathaway. He also dated model Ivanka Trump in 2006, in early 2007 he briefly dated actress Emmy Rossum. He is currently dating his Kids in America co-star, Teresa Palmer.
National Board of Review, USA
- Won: Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actor, In Good Company (2004)
Screen Actors Guild Award
- Won: Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture, Traffic (Shared with cast, 2001)
Teen Choice Awards
- Nominated: Choice Movie: Rumble, Spider-Man 3 (Shared with Tobey Maguire, James Franco, and Thomas Haden Church, 2007)
- Nominated: Choice Movie: Villain, Spider-Man 3 (2007)
- Nominated: Choice Movie Actor - Comedy, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
- Nominated: Choice Movie Hissy Fit, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
- Nominated: Choice Movie Liplock, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (Shared with Kate Bosworth, 2004)
- Nominated: Choice TV Actor - Comedy, That '70s Show (2004)
- Nominated: Choice TV Actor - Comedy, That '70s Show (2003)
- Nominated: Choice TV Actor - Comedy, That '70s Show (2002)
- Nominated: Choice TV Actor - Comedy, That '70s Show (2001)
- Nominated: Choice TV Actor - Comedy, That '70s Show (2000)
- Nominated: Choice TV Actor - Comedy, That '70s Show (1999)
Young Artist Awards
- Nominated: Best Performance in a TV Series - Young Ensemble, That '70s Show (Shared with cast, 1999) |
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