Clare Grant

Clare Grant
Grant at the International Academy of Web Television, Red Carpet 2012
Born	Clare Camille Johnson (1979-08-23) August 23, 1979 Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Occupation	Actress, voice actress, and producer
Years active	2004–present
Spouse(s)	Seth Green (2010–present)
Website
www.claregrant.com

Clare Grant (born August 23, 1979) is an American actress, voice actress, and producer.

Early life

While growing up in Memphis, Grant voiced many radio commercials, sang competitively and began acting in local theater productions. She is the oldest of eight siblings and is named after her father, Clarence, who was a popular local Memphis DJ. Her mother Glenna is a real estate agent. To support herself through college, Grant modeled through Elite Model Management in Miami, Florida and subsequently modeled in Europe on several campaigns, including L'Oréal.

Career

Film work

After booking the first film she auditioned for, a small but pivotal role in Walk the Line, romantically opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Grant continued to star in several independent films while earning her BFA in Theater Performance at the University of Memphis before moving to Los Angeles. While in Memphis, she met director Craig Brewer who cast her as the lead in two of his indie films before casting her in the film Black Snake Moan as Christina Ricci's best friend, and later as the lead in his MTV series $5 Cover.^[1] She then played the lead role of Megan Graves in comic book writer Brian Pulido's first independent feature film The Graves, followed by the role of Beverly in the film Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, directed by Matthew Mishory.^[2] In 2013, Grant played the lead role of Martha Collins in the film The Insomniac,^[3] directed by Monty Miranda, and voiced Black Widow in the Marvel Animation movie Iron Man: Rise of Technovore^[4]. Most recently, Clare joined an all-star cast in the upcoming feature, Evil Nature, and the next Peter Bogdanovich produced film, Phantom Halo. Both films set to release in 2014.

Television work

Grant's first television role, was the lead role on the Emmy winning Showtime original series Masters of Horror: Valerie on the Stairs, followed by the series lead role on the MTV series $5 Cover,^[1] about the trials and tribulations of the current Memphis music scene, created by fellow Memphian Craig Brewer. Since then, Grant has appeared in guest starring roles on shows such as CSI: Miami and Warren the Ape. She does voices on Robot Chicken,^[1] MAD, originated a bounty hunter named Latts Razzi on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and voices Titania on Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H..

In October 2006, after her role in Masters of Horror: Valerie on the Stairs, she appeared as "Babe of the Month" in a non-nude pictorial in Playboy magazine.^[5]

In 2013, Adult Swim announced that Grant co-created and will be starring in and executive producing a pilot based on the webseries she co-created, Team Unicorn.^[6]

Other projects

Grant and Rileah Vanderbilt, under their production company Danger Maiden Productions, created, produced, and starred in the short film Saber,^[7] which won two awards at the 2009 Star Wars Fan Film Awards: Best Action and Audience Choice awards.^[8] In 2010, Grant and Vanderbilt began working with Michele Boyd and Milynn Sarley under the group name Team Unicorn.^[9] In its first week alone, the team’s first project, G33k & G4m3r Girls, a parody of Katy Perry's California Gurls video,^[10] achieved over one million views.^[11] Stirring much controversy over its sexy portrayal of the women,^[12] G33k & G4m3r Girls is a "love letter"^[13] written by the girls that pays tribute^[14] to their shared mutual passion of gaming, manga, and science fiction. Grant continues to create viral videos with Danger Maiden and Team Unicorn. She guest-starred in the second season of the Jane Espenson-scripted romantic comedy web series Husbands and has also guest starred on popular geeky webseries such as The Guild, Save the Supers and Tabletop.^[15]

Personal life

Grant first met actor Seth Green in 2006 at Golden Apple Comics and married him on May 1, 2010 in a private vineyard ceremony in Northern California,^[1] by Grant's long time friend and director, Craig Brewer.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Internet Series

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clare Grant.

• Official website
• Clare Grant at the Internet Movie Database
• Clare on Twitter