Clare Grant
| Clare Grant | |
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 Clare Grant at San Diego Comic-Con International. July 21, 2011 |
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| Born | August 23, 1979 Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Spouse | Seth Green (2010–present) |
| Website | |
| http://www.claregrant.com | |
Clare Grant (born August 23, 1979) is an American actress.
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[edit] Career
While at the University of Memphis she met director Craig Brewer who cast her in two indie films in Memphis before casting her in the film Black Snake Moan and later as the lead in his MTV series $5 Cover.[1]
Grant modeled through Elite Model Management in Miami, Florida and subsequently modeled in Europe. After she worked on several independent films in Memphis, she was cast in a small but pivotal role in the movie Walk the Line, after which she moved to Los Angeles, California.
She has appeared in projects including the Showtime original series Masters of Horror: Valerie on the Stairs, CSI: Miami and Warren the Ape. She has done voices on Robot Chicken[1], MAD & Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and played the lead role of Megan Graves in comic writer Brian Pulido's first independent feature film The Graves. Clare also stars in the MTV/Craig Brewer series $5 Cover, about the trials and tribulations of the current Memphis music scene.
Grant and Rileah Vanderbilt created, produced, and starred in the short film Saber[2] which won two awards at the 2009 Star Wars Fan Film Awards: Best Action and Audience Choice awards.[3] In 2010, Grant and Vanderbilt worked with Michele Boyd and Milynn Sarley under the group name Team Unicorn[4] whose projects include the G33k & G4m3r Girls parody of Katy Perry's California Gurls video,[5] a viral video which achieved one million views in its first week,[6] "A Very Zombie Holiday", "superHarmony" and "Alien Beach Crashers".
In 2012, she played the role of Beverly in the 2012 film Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, directed by Matthew Mishory[7], and the role of Martha Collins in the film The Insomniac, directed by Monty Miranda.
[edit] Personal life
Grant first met actor Seth Green in 2007 and married him on May 1, 2010 in a "private vineyard ceremony in Northern California".[1]
[edit] Filmography
- MAD (2011)
- CSI: Miami "Wheels Up" (2011)
- Robot Chicken: Half Assed Christmas Special" (2010)
- Warren the Ape (2010)
- The Graves (2010)[8]
- Daylight Fades (2010)
- Here & Now (2010)
- $5 Cover (2009)[9]
- Saber (2009)[10]
- Robot Chicken (2009) (Voice actor)
- Terrorvision: Follower (2008)
- House Of Fur (2007)
- Send in the Clown (2006)
- Black Snake Moan (2006)[8]
- Happenstance (2006)
- Masters of Horror: Valerie on the Stairs (2006)[10]
- Walk the Line (2006)
- The Smallest Oceans (2005)
- Resolutions of the Complacent man (2005)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Wang, Cynthia (May 4, 2010). "Newlyweds Seth Green and Clare Grant Can't Believe Their Luck". People. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20366221,00.html. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ^ "IMDB Page for SABER"
- ^ "Official Star Wars Fan Film Challenge Web Site"
- ^ Lewis Wallace (September 11, 2010). "Spot the Geek Refs in ‘Geek and Gamer Girls’ Song". Wired Magazine. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/09/geek-and-gamer-girls//. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
- ^ Break.com, September 10, 2010, Geek and Gamer Girls Anthem.
- ^ Action Flick Chick, September 17, 2010, Interview: G33K & G4M3R GIRLS (Geek and Gamer Girls Video) 1 Week, 1 Million Views,
- ^ http://www.joshuatree1951.com
- ^ a b "Seth Green engaged to model-actress Clare Grant". The Palm Beach Post. February 26, 2010. http://www.pbpulse.com/gossip/celeb-stalker/couplings/2010/02/26/seth-green-engaged-to-model-actress-clare-grant/. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
- ^ Wallenstein, Andrew (April 30, 2009). "$5 Cover -- TV Review". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/tv-reviews/tv-review-5-cover-1003968334.story. Retrieved October 10, 2010.[dead link]
- ^ a b "Adam Green Shows Us His Saber". Dread Central. April 6, 2009. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/31168/adam-green-shows-us-his-saber. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
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