Frank Grillo Biography, Age, Net worth, Height/Weight, Actor, Movies, T v Shows, Crossbones, Quotes

Frank Grillo Biography

Frank Grillo is an American actor born on June 8, 1965 in New York City, New York, U.S. He is best known for his roles in films such as Warrior (2011), The Grey (2012), End of Watch (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

Frank Grillo Age

Frank Grillo was born on June 8, 1965 (he is 53 years old as of 2018)

Frank Grillo Height/Weight

Frank Grillo stands at a height 1.79 m (he has a weight of 77 kg)

Frank Grillo Net worth

Frank Grillo has an estimated net worth of $3 million dollars.

Frank Grillo Family

Frank Grillo is of Italian (Calabrian) heritage. He is the oldest of three children.
Frank Grillo and Wife

Frank Grillo Siblings

Frank Grillo has two younger siblings of which their names are not disclosed.

Frank Grillo Education

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.

Frank Grillo Wife

Frank Grillo married Kathy Grillo from 1991 to 1998 this was due to their divorce. He was later engaged to another wife Wendy Moniz who is also an actress, they met in 1996 on the set of Guiding Light.

Frank Grillo Actor

Frank Grillo started his acting career by appearing in commercials, for companies such as American Express and Sure deodorant. His first film role was in 1992’s The Mambo Kings, and he went on to appear in the films Minority Report (2002), April’s Shower (2006), and both iMurders and New Line Cinema’s Pride and Glory in 2008. He is best known for his roles in films such as Warrior (2011), The Grey (2012), End of Watch (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). He had his first leading role in the action horror film like The Purge: Anarchy (2014), of which he portrayed as Sergeant Leo Barnes and he has also reprised in The Purge: Election Year (2016).
He also plays the Marvel supervillain Brock Rumlow / Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Big Daddy in the Chinese action film Wolf Warrior 2 (2017), the highest-grossing non-Hollywood film of all time. In 2017 he played the main role in the Netflix film Wheelman as a getaway driver in a botched bank heist. His television work includes recurring roles in the series of Battery Park (2000), For the People (2002–2003), The Shield (2002–2003), Prison Break (2005–2006), Blind Justice (2005), and The Kill Point (2007).
He has also starred as Hart Jessup in the soap opera Guiding Light (1996–1999), Nick Monohan in sci-fi series The Gates (2010), and between 2014 and 2017, he played Alvey Kulina in the DirecTV drama series Kingdom. He was in the 2010 horror film Mother’s Day in the role of Daniel Sohapi and the following year, had a supporting role in the 2011 film Warrior as MMA trainer Frank Campana. In 2013, he starred with Jaimie Alexander in the romantic thriller film Collision and had a bit role in the action film Homefront with Jason Statham.
The same year, he starred as Sergeant Leo Barnes in the sequel The Purge: Anarchy, and reprised his role in 2016’s The Purge: Election Year. He also reprised the role of Brock Rumlow/Crossbones in the third installment of the Captain America film series, Civil War, which was released on May 6, 2016. Jekyll Island is set to release on January 31, 2017. In 2015, he starred in the films Demonic and Big Sky. Another film in which he stars, Beyond Skyline, was originally set for release in 2015 and was ultimately released on Netflix in December 2017.

Frank Grillo Television

He first appeared on television episodes of Silk Stalkings (1993), and Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996) before being cast as oil tycoon Hart Jessup on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light in 1996 up until 1999. In 2002, he was cast in the series For the People as Det. J.C. Hunter and played Hunter until 2003. One of his more notable television roles was on the crime drama Prison Break where he played Nick Savrinn from 2005 to 2006. During that time, he also appeared on the Blind Justice as Marty Russo.
He has also appeared in the first and only season of The Kill Point in 2007, he has played the role of Jimmy in the CSI: NY episode “The Things About Heroes,” which aired in November 2007. In 2010, he starred in the sci-fi series The Gates opposite Marisol Nichols and Rhona Mitra. The series only lasted one season. Between 2014 and 2017, he starred in the DirecTV drama series Kingdom as MMA coach Alvey Kulina alongside Nick Jonas and Jonathan Tucker.

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Frank Grillo interview on MMA

Firstly, Frank, for readers who might not know, you actually have a background in combat sports. Can you tell us about that?
Frank Grillo: Ever since I was a young boy, I was a wrestler, and then I started boxing when I was 18. When I was done with my wrestling career, I discovered Rickson Gracie while I was living in L.A. I trained with Rickson for many years and continued to box. I travelled around a little bit and did some competitions with the Gracie team. I came back to New York and trained with the Machado brothers. I’ve been training for the better part of 35 years. I actually just got back from training boxing and did about 15 rounds today. It’s a big part of my life.
Has training influenced your acting career?
Frank Grillo: My life as a martial artist, as a boxer, has shaped my career. It’s who I am as a man and a father and a friend and how I carry myself. It really has been influential in the roles that I take. I think it’s also an interesting way at my age that people see me. People see me as this guy now kind of like a Liam Neeson. He’s a good friend of mine and we often laugh and say how funny it is that this stuff is happening later in life. It’s a way a man carries themselves as a fighter. There are a lot of people that manufacture that, but there are not a lot of actors that can deliver that, I don’t think.
With roles in projects like Kingdom, it seems like your career has had something of a renaissance of late.
Frank Grillo: I don’t even think it’s a renaissance because I never really had a great career. I was patching together jobs; chugging along and having three kids I had to do things for money and so forth. I think what’s happened is that the floodgates opened after (the movie) Warrior. Hollywood kind of discovered who I was and it’s been a whirlwind ever since. It’s been a blessing and I’m really grateful for it.
We spoke with Kingdom’s producer/creator/writer Byron Balasco recently and he said the first time the two of you spoke, you just clicked. Can you tell us about that?
Frank Grillo: After Warrior – which I felt was a wonderful movie and really put a stake in the ground for MMA – I wasn’t interested in doing another MMA project, but my agent told me that they were interested in me. I told them, “Thank you, but I’ve been down that road and I’m not interested.” After about four times, I said, “All right, I’ll talk to the guy.”
I read the script the night before and I was really intrigued because it was very different than Warrior. It was deeper in many ways and it told the story of how I know the world of MMA to be and the struggle to be a professional fighter. I got on the phone with (Balasco) and it was like I was talking to myself. He understood the characters from a different point of view. Not as heroes, not as the Rockys of the world, but what it meant to grind out a living. He’s one of the best writers I’ve ever worked with, and I don’t think he realizes it yet. We had a great time making these 10 episodes.
Tell us about your role in Kingdom and what they can expect from the show.
Frank Grillo: The character’s name is Alvey Kulina, and like myself, predated the UFC. He was a big star of his generation, but once the UFC came around and became more organized and more mainstream, he had already kind of been aged out. I’ve got these two sons who are fighters, and I have this gym and train fighters, and I’m using my past experience and fame in the sport to try to break this gym and look for that one good fighter.
This is really like the Sopranos in that the Sopranos were really more about Tony’s family than the mafia, and this is the same thing. I have a girlfriend who was engaged to a fighter who was in jail and comes out and I start training him, so there’s this kind of weird triangle. I have one son who is a derelict, but a good fighter, and I’ve got to get him straight. Then I have another son who is a good fighter, but is very introverted.
Greg Jackson is a good friend of mine, so I get to spend a lot of time in New Mexico with Greg and get to be around these fighters and I really appreciate what these fighters go through and what their families go through. That’s what we’ve done (with Kingdom); it’s a very authentic slice of life for this level of MMA fighter.
Byron Balasco told us that you and the other actors did a great job in creating believable characters that viewers can really invest in.
Frank Grillo: If they don’t (buy into these characters) then the show doesn’t work. This isn’t like “there’s a fight every week” and blah, blah, blah; this is about characters. Any good TV show or film is about people being interesting and the kind of stories you tell.
Joe “Daddy” Stevenson was a technical advisor on the show, and he not only had an incredible career, but he had a real kind of tragic personal life and troubled personal life until recently. I’m more interested in hearing how he’s survived his personal life than him telling me about fighting. That’s what the show is really about.
Thanks for taking time out for us, Frank. Is there anything you’d like to say to our readers in conclusion?
Frank Grillo: The thing I’d like to say as an MMA fan and practitioner is that (Kingdom) really depicts the world and life in a really truly authentic way. The language is authentic, it gets abrasive at times, and it’s a slow burn. It’s not like there’s an explosion in the pilot and you follow the explosion; you’ve got to get to know these people. I say to people, give it a shot, watch it unfold and breathe a little bit like a fine wine.
A fine wine made by a bunch of sweaty guys in a gym beating the crap out of each other.

Frank Grillo Quotes

• What I look for in a role is the physical. But what’s the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?
• I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
• You’ve got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that’s how you get your experience.
• I’m not really enamored by movie stars.
• I did ‘The Grey,’ and it was very intense and emotional because we’re in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you’re filming a movie.
• I’m a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
• I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college – this was when I was younger.
• You get spoiled on ‘Captain America,’ where your trailer’s two blocks long and it’s got three bedrooms.
• A film that I love is ‘Deliverance’ from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters – the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist – and by the end, it’s all turned upside down. I love that.
• What people don’t know is that I’m a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I’ve been for 20 years, and I’ve been boxing since I’ve been 15 years old – those are things that come natural to me.
• When you have Liam Neeson in a film, no matter how good everyone else is, it’s a Liam Neeson film. And if there’s wolves, and you’re running, it’s about Liam Neeson running from wolves.
• The soap opera was so long ago – the thing about soap operas, and there’s something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don’t want to say it’s a training ground; it really isn’t, but what it does teach you is discipline.

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