20 Facts About Frank Grillo

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Frank Anthony Grillo was born on June 8,1965 and is an American actor and martial artist.

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Frank Grillo had his first leading role in the action-horror film The Purge: Anarchy, portraying Sergeant Leo Barnes, a role he reprised in The Purge: Election Year, and has appeared in Warrior, The Grey, End of Watch, Zero Dark Thirty, Wolf Warrior 2 and Wheelman, and Boss Level.

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Frank Grillo was born in New York City to a working-class Italian-American family of Calabrian origin.

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Frank Grillo was raised in the Bronx and in Rockland County, New York.

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Frank Grillo began wrestling at eight years old, and took up boxing at eighteen.

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Frank Grillo graduated from New York University with a business degree and spent a year on Wall Street before being asked to do a Miller Genuine Draft beer commercial.

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Frank Grillo started his acting career by appearing in commercials, for companies such as American Express and Sure deodorant.

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In 2014, Frank Grillo was cast as HYDRA agent Brock Rumlow in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

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In October 2013, Grillo started filming for The Crash, starring alongside Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver, Ed Westwick, AnnaSophia Robb, Dianna Agron, John Leguizamo, Mary McCormack, Christopher McDonald and Maggie Q The film is directed by Aram Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah, and Aaron Becker.

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In 2015, Frank Grillo starred in the films Demonic and Big Sky.

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In 2019, Variety announced that Frank Grillo has signed with Creative Artists Agency for representation.

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Frank Grillo produced and starred in Boss Level, which was announced in November 2017 and was scheduled to be released by Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures on August 16,2019, but was delayed.

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Frank Grillo appeared in the sequel Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard with Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson.

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Frank Grillo first appeared on television in episodes of Silk Stalkings, and Poltergeist: The Legacy before being cast as oil tycoon Hart Jessup on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light in 1996 up until 1999.

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Frank Grillo was in the first and only season of The Kill Point in 2007, and played the role of Jimmy in the CSI: NY episode "The Things About Heroes," which aired in November 2007.

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Between 2014 and 2017, Frank Grillo starred in the DirecTV drama series Kingdom as MMA coach Alvey Kulina alongside Nick Jonas and Jonathan Tucker.

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Frank Grillo was a season 5 regular on the drama series Billions, starring as artist Nico Tanner opposite Damian Lewis and Maggie Siff.

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Frank Grillo reprised the role of Crossbones by voicing the character on the Marvel Cinematic Universe animated series What If.

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Frank Grillo married his first wife Kathy in 1991, but the couple divorced in 1998.

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Frank Grillo met fellow actress Wendy Moniz in 1996 on the set of Guiding Light.