Adrian Grenier

This is the 110th post in our Celebrity of the Day series.



Adrian Grenier was born in 1976 in New York. He started getting into acting when he attending a performing arts high school and he went on to attend Bard College with a major in drama.

He got his first film role in 1997 in Arresting Gena. Two years later he got his breakout role starring opposite Melissa Joan Hart in Drive me Crazy. Two years later he starred in James Tobek's Harvard Man. In 2002, Adrian decided to try his hand at directing by creating his own documentary. The documentary was called a Shot in the Dark and involved Adrian's lifelong search for his father. The two have since reconnected.

It was in 2004 that he got the role that he is most well known for. He landed the lead in the HBO series Entourage as Vincent Price. In 2006 he got another major film role as Anne Hathaway's boyfriend in The Devil Wears Prada. Adrian continues to write and direct his own films, and he even acts in some of them. In Teenage Paparazzi he plays himself and also directed and produced the film.

Outside of his film career Adrian is also a musician playing drums, guitar, french horn and piano. He is the lead singer in the band Kid Friendly and the drummer in The Honey Brothers.

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