Clark Gregg is best known for playing the original character Phil Coulson in films and television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2008 to 2021.
20 Facts About Clark Gregg
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Clark Gregg is known for his role as FBI Special Agent Mike Casper on the NBC political drama series The West Wing and as Richard, the ex-husband of Christine Campbell, in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine.
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Clark Gregg wrote the horror film What Lies Beneath, and wrote and directed the black comedy Choke and the comedy-drama Trust Me.
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Clark Gregg appeared in the films The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, One Hour Photo, In Good Company, When a Stranger Calls, 500 Days of Summer, Much Ado About Nothing, The To Do List, Labor Day, and Live by Night.
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Clark Gregg attended high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where his father was a professor at nearby Duke University.
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Clark Gregg attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years before dropping out and moving to Manhattan.
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Clark Gregg worked various jobs, such as being a bar back, a security guard at the Guggenheim Museum, and a parking valet at a restaurant.
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Clark Gregg later enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied drama and English, and graduated in 1986.
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Clark Gregg was a founding member, and later artistic director, of the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company, which formed in 1983.
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Clark Gregg wrote the screenplay for the 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath.
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Clark Gregg is the director and screenwriter of the 2008 film Choke, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name, starring Sam Rockwell.
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Clark Gregg consulted his father, a retired religion professor at Stanford, for the quotation from Saint Paul's letter to the Galatians which Clark Gregg used in Choke.
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Clark Gregg's father is the former chaplain at Stanford Memorial Church.
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In 2010, Clark Gregg reprised his role as Agent Coulson for Iron Man 2.
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Clark Gregg had since signed up for a multiple film deal as the character with Marvel Studios.
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In October 2010, Clark Gregg was part of the cast of a staged reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart alongside Dylan Walsh, Lisa Kudrow, and Tate Donovan, presented in Los Angeles on the occasion of the play's 25th anniversary ; the reading was directed by his then-father-in-law, Joel Grey.
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Clark Gregg went on to direct episodes in seasons five and six.
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Clark Gregg reprised his role as Agent Coulson in the 2019 superhero film Captain Marvel and the animated series What If.
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Clark Gregg married actress Jennifer Grey on July 21,2001; the couple co-starred in the Lifetime TV movie Road to Christmas.
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Clark Gregg is a sober alcoholic, and describes himself as a member of a Jewish family.