Griffin Newman was born on February 19,1989 and is an American actor and comedian.
27 Facts About Griffin Newman
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Newman is the son of film producer Peter Newman and casting director Antonia Dauphin.
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Griffin Newman's maternal grandfather, Claude Dauphin, was a French actor.
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Griffin Newman was raised in Greenwich Village, and attended Saint Ann's School.
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Griffin Newman was interested in performing from an early age, often performing Fozzie Bear routines for friends and family.
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Griffin Newman started stand-up comedy at the age of ten as part of the 'Kidsncomedy' program run by Jo Ann Grossman.
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Griffin Newman's material was mostly political, workshopped with his father.
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Griffin Newman began getting some attention from agents at this time, though his parents were reluctant for him to pursue a career in acting.
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Griffin Newman started college in 2007 at California Institute of the Arts with the intention of becoming a filmmaker.
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Griffin Newman dropped out after seven months in order to pursue a career in comedy and acting.
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Griffin Newman went on to play roles in a number of shorts and student films.
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Griffin Newman began performing stand-up regularly around this time and produced a one-man show titled Grifftopia, which he performed in 2009 and 2010.
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In 2010, Griffin Newman appeared in the teen film Beware the Gonzo in the role of Horny Rob Becker, one of the friends of the titular Gonzo.
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Griffin Newman played the role of Russ in the television mini-series Political Animals for the USA Network, and was listed by Just for Laughs as one of the 2012 New Faces of Comedy: Characters.
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In 2013, Griffin Newman was cast in John Mulaney's sitcom Mulaney for NBC as Seymour.
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Griffin Newman has described the situation as his own version of the Dark Phoenix saga.
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Griffin Newman hosted The Awooga Comedy Hour with Andrew Tavin from January 2013, a live comedy show that became weekly from May 2014.
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In 2014, Griffin Newman appeared in the film Draft Day as Rick the Intern alongside Kevin Costner, and later that year announced he had become a part of a Maude Team at UCB.
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Griffin Newman went on to have supporting roles in other feature films including Fort Tilden, Free The Nipple, and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.
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Griffin Newman has appeared in a number of webseries, including Snarky Sidekick and The Untitled Web Series That Morgan Evans Is Doing for MTV; he starred as the Director in Colin Quinn's webseries Cop Show for all three seasons.
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In 2016 Griffin Newman had a supporting role in the HBO series Vinyl, and guest starred in the sitcoms Search Party and Difficult People.
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Later that year, it was announced Griffin Newman would be playing Arthur Everest in Amazon Video's new reboot of The Tick alongside Peter Serafinowicz in the titular role.
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Griffin Newman has received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Everest.
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Griffin Newman has a small role in Woody Allen's film A Rainy Day in New York, previously set for release in 2018.
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Griffin Newman announced he would be donating his salary from the film to RAINN.
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Griffin Newman regularly appears as part of Connor Ratliff's The George Lucas Talk Show at UCB, as Watto.
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In February 2020, Griffin Newman was announced as the voice of Orko in the Netflix series Masters of the Universe: Revelation after campaigning online for the role when the show was first announced.