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Topher Grace
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Executive Producer, Actor
Born:
July 12, 1978
Biography:Lanky, personable, and looking for all the world like "Alan Alda"'s long-lost son, "Topher Grace" made an impressive film debut with his role in "Traffic" (2000), "Steven Soderbergh"'s epic and widely acclaimed look at the American war on drugs. Grace received positive notices for his work in the film, which cast him as a cocky prep-school boy who turns his girlfriend ("Erika Christensen") on to heroin and cocaine. The role marked a drastic departure from the young actor's regular job on the popular Fox sitcom That '70s Show, where he portrayed Eric Forman, a level-headed and predominantly wholesome high school student coming of age in "Me Decade" Wisconsin.

A native New Yorker, Grace was born in the city on July 12, 1978. Raised in Connecticut and Massachusetts, he began acting in school plays and was a student at New Hampshire's Brewster Academy when his performance in a school production of A... Full Biography

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