22 Facts About Roman Grant

Roman Grant is a fictional character in the HBO series, Big Love, and is portrayed by Harry Dean Stanton.

Roman Grant was the prophet of the Juniper Creek Compound, and is the father of Nicolette Grant and Alby Grant.

One night Orville and Grant went out on a trip and Orville died under very mysterious circumstances while Grant returned unharmed.

Roman Grant quickly seized the role of prophet of Juniper Creek shortly afterward.

The older residents of Juniper Creek have implied Roman Grant was responsible for his predecessor's death.

Roman Grant found Bill too much like his grandfather and a potential threat to his power so he instructed Bill's father Frank Harlow to kick Bill off the compound when Bill was only 14 years old.

Roman Grant loves music and has been heard singing both hymns and folk-songs for his own entertainment and that of his hosts and guests.

Roman Grant's most prized possession is a guitar that accompanied the first Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

Roman Grant was involved in the death of Kathy Marquardt, and as a result was killed by her fiancee Joey Henrickson in the final episode of season three.

Roman Grant has 31 children ranging in age from a 59-year-old son named Homer to an infant named Emory.

Roman Grant is not the least bit ashamed of being polygamous and appears on television defending his lifestyle and his sect.

Roman Grant outed the Henrickson family as polygamists at the end of the first season so that they could "live in the light".

Roman Grant appears to be a caring father in spite of the immensity of his family, however some scenes allude to possible abuse.

Roman Grant is president of the United Effort Brotherhood, the business and investment arm of his sect that, mostly under his leadership, is worth many millions of dollars, much of it liquid.

Roman Grant is a man very much concerned with monetary profit but seems more concerned with the power and security of money than by any luxuries, for nothing about his lifestyle seems at all extravagant.

When Bill severed all ties between the compound and Henrickson's Home Plus, Roman Grant has done all in his power to convince Bill of his mistake.

Roman Grant is extremely adept at finding legal loopholes to legally harass Henrickson.

Hollis Greene and Roman Grant have seemingly become allies, as Roman Grant convinces the Greenes to take Kathy Marquardt as another wife to prevent her from causing trouble at Juniper Creek.

Roman Grant later tries to help Bill get his niece back from the Greenes after they kidnap her in an elaborate plan by Bill to have both the Greenes and Roman Grant arrested.

Roman Grant's body was discovered by Adaleen who hid it in a meat freezer and tried to make it appear as though Roman Grant was still alive and had gone into hiding in Mexico.

The FBI searched the compound and interrogated Nicki to learn Roman Grant's whereabouts, claiming he was back in Utah and placing funds in an account under Nicki's name.

Roman Grant claimed that she didn't want people to know that he was dead because he had once claimed that he would live until the age of 126.