Topher Grace
Highest Rated: 96% BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Lowest Rated: 0% Delirium (2018)
Birthday: Jul 12, 1978
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Topher Grace was an American TV and film actor who was best known for playing the affable Eric Forman for 7 seasons on the Fox sitcom "That 70's Show" (Fox, 1998-2006). Born in New York City and raised in Darien, Connecticut, Grace first started acting while attending boarding school in New Hampshire. He began appearing in school productions of famous musicals like "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," and quickly fell in love with acting. It was also during this period that Grace, whose first name is Christopher, started calling himself Topher, seeing as he hated it when people called him Chris. When he was just starting out as a stage actor, Grace met a young actress by the name of Chloe Sevigny (who would later go on to have a sterling acting career in her own right). Grace and Sevigny appeared in a few plays together, and although she was only a few years older than him, she eventually babysat for the younger Topher on a few occasions. By the time he was 18, Grace knew that he wanted to be in films and on TV. He enrolled in the University of Southern California, given its close proximity to Hollywood, and began going on auditions in between classes. On one of his very first auditions, he was asked to read for the part of a new sitcom that took place in the 1970s. Grace crushed the audition and was given the role of the lovable, but slightly socially awkward teenager Eric Forman on "That 70's Show." When the show premiered in 1998, it was a big hit, making instant stars of Grace and his fellow castmates, which included Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. By the early 2000s, with his career in the sitcom world riding high, Grace also started making a name for himself in movies. In the first few years of the 2000s, Grace racked up roles in "Traffic" (2000), "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003) and "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!" (2004), thus proving he had the serious acting chops needed to make it in movies. In 2005, after 7 seasons on "That 70's Show," Grace left the series to focus on his burgeoning film career. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, he appeared as Venom in "Spider-Man 3" (2007), "Predators" (2010), "Take Me Home Tonight" (2011), "The Big Wedding" (2013), and "Interstellar" (2014). Then in 2018, Grace worked with the iconic director Spike Lee in "BlacKkKlansman" (2018). He played the white supremacist David Duke in the film, which took home an Academy Award and also starred Adam Driver. In 2019, nearly 15 years after he left "That 70's Show," Grace returned to TV with a starring role in the thriller mini-series "The Hot Zone" (National Geographic, 2019). That series, which also starred Julianna Margulies, premiered on the National Geographic channel in May of 2019.
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Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight Risk | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
40% |
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Irresistible | Kurt (Character) | - | 2020 |
61% |
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Breakthrough | Pastor Jason Noble (Character) | $40.7M | 2019 |
58% |
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Under the Silver Lake | Man at Bar (Character) | $35.3K | 2018 |
96% |
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BlacKkKlansman | David Duke (Character) | $48.6M | 2018 |
0% |
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Delirium | Tom (Character) | - | 2018 |
48% |
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War Machine | Matt Little (Character) | - | 2017 |
0% |
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The Institute | Vincent (Character) | - | 2017 |
83% |
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Opening Night |
Nick (Character), Producer |
- | 2016 |
63% |
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Truth | Mike Smith (Character) | $2.5M | 2015 |
44% |
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American Ultra | Adrian Yates (Character) | $14.4M | 2015 |
14% |
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Playing It Cool | Scott (Character) | - | 2014 |
73% |
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Interstellar | Getty (Character) | $188.0M | 2014 |
55% |
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The Calling | Ben Wingate (Character) | - | 2014 |
7% |
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Don Peyote | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
7% |
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The Big Wedding | Jared (Character) | $21.8M | 2013 |
70% |
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The Giant Mechanical Man | Doug (Character) | $5.4K | 2012 |
77% |
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Too Big to Fail | Jim Wilkinson (Character) | - | 2011 |
22% |
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The Double | Ben Geary (Character) | - | 2011 |
28% |
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Take Me Home Tonight |
Matt Franklin (Character), Executive Producer |
$6.9M | 2011 |
65% |
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Predators | Edwin (Character) | $52.0M | 2010 |
18% |
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Valentine's Day | Jason (Character) | $110.5M | 2010 |
63% |
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Spider-Man 3 |
Eddie Brock/ |
$336.5M | 2007 |
55% |
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P.S. | F. Scott Feinstadt (Character) | $175.4K | 2004 |
82% |
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In Good Company | Carter Duryea (Character) | $45.5M | 2004 |
55% |
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Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! | Pete Monash (Character) | $17.0M | 2004 |
34% |
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Mona Lisa Smile | Tommy Donegal (Character) | $63.7M | 2003 |
93% |
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Traffic | Seth Abrams (Character) | $124.1M | 2000 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Billy O'Donnell (Guest Voice) | 2008 2024 |
81% | 75% | That '90s Show | Eric (Guest Star) | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 79% | Home Economics |
Tom (Character), Executive Producer |
2021-2023 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2021-2022 |
No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2018 2022 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2021-2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2018 2021 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2011 2013 2015 2021 |
67% | 44% | The Twilight Zone | Mark (Guest Star) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2019 |
83% | 80% | Black Mirror | Billy (Character) | 2019 |
57% | 75% | The Hot Zone | Peter Jarhling (Character) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 51% | Busy Tonight | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2019 |
86% | 82% | Love, Death + Robots | Rob (Voice) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2017 |
86% | 84% | Workaholics | Noel (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Drunk History | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 92% | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lopez Tonight | Guest | 2010-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 81% | That '70s Show | Eric Forman (Character) | 1998-2005 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 72% | King of the Hill | Chris (Guest Voice) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2001 |