Beth Grant ~ Actress
Raised in the South, Beth Grant moved frequently as a child and enjoys claiming several towns and cities in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina as home. She was a Page in the North Carolina Senate, attended the North Carolina Governor's School for Gifted and Talented students, and received a governor's appointment at the age of nineteen. Grant was president of the East Carolina University College Democrats for two years, receiving the Outstanding College Democrat Award from then Senator Edmund Muskie. She is a graduate of ECU with a BFA in Acting and Directing.
One of Hollywood's most recognizable faces, she has starred in over seventy feature films including the Best Picture Academy Award nominated Little Miss Sunshine. She delighted in creating the character you love to hate, Pageant Official Jenkins, making Grant the happy recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast In A Feature Film. She played the fan favorite role of the health teacher in the cult hit Donnie Darko, and is often asked by fans to repeat her famous line “Sometimes I doubt your commitment to SparkleMotion.” She was also in No Country for Old Men, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Other popular studio pictures include Crazy Heart, Rock Star, The Rookie,Matchstick Men, Rain Man, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, A Time to Kill, Pearl Harbor,Rain Man and Speed.
Grant has appeared in over thirty plays from Los Angeles to New York including two productions at The Ahmanson, William Inge's Picnic (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (with Christopher Reeve) under the direction of Circle Rep's Marshall W. Mason. She has created roles in the world premieres of Holy Ghosts by Romulus Linney, On A Southern Journey by Maya Angelou, The Day Emily Married by Horton Foote, Sordid Lives and The Trials and Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife by Del Shores. This year she received rave reviews for her stunning turn as Grace in Grace and Glorie by Tom Ziegler.
Grant is a recipient of The Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and The L.A. Stage Alliance Award and The Backstage West Garlan Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Del Shores' The Trials And Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife. She was just nominated for an Ovation Award for Grace and Glorie.
On television, Grant was a favorite on the Six Feet Under episode, "The Rapture." She married then cheated on Jason Lee on My Name Is Earl. She has been a regular or recurred on many television shows including Sordid Lives: The Series, Malcolm in the Middle, King of the Hill, Yes, Dear, Everwood, Delta, Wonderfalls and Jericho.
She has guest-starred in hundreds of hit television series such as The Office,Friends, The X-Files, Angel, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Grant starred in Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time, produced by Robert Redford (PBS), The Image with Albert Finney (HBO), Switched at Birth and Fall from Grace (NBC). She recently did a very well-received mini-sode of True Blood.
Grant was a student of the late great Milton Katselas at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. She lives in Los Angeles with husband, actor Michael Chieffo, and daughter Mary Chieffo, also an actress.
Click HERE to go to Beth's IMDB page.
One of Hollywood's most recognizable faces, she has starred in over seventy feature films including the Best Picture Academy Award nominated Little Miss Sunshine. She delighted in creating the character you love to hate, Pageant Official Jenkins, making Grant the happy recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast In A Feature Film. She played the fan favorite role of the health teacher in the cult hit Donnie Darko, and is often asked by fans to repeat her famous line “Sometimes I doubt your commitment to SparkleMotion.” She was also in No Country for Old Men, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Other popular studio pictures include Crazy Heart, Rock Star, The Rookie,Matchstick Men, Rain Man, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, A Time to Kill, Pearl Harbor,Rain Man and Speed.
Grant has appeared in over thirty plays from Los Angeles to New York including two productions at The Ahmanson, William Inge's Picnic (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (with Christopher Reeve) under the direction of Circle Rep's Marshall W. Mason. She has created roles in the world premieres of Holy Ghosts by Romulus Linney, On A Southern Journey by Maya Angelou, The Day Emily Married by Horton Foote, Sordid Lives and The Trials and Tribulations Of A Trailer Trash Housewife by Del Shores. This year she received rave reviews for her stunning turn as Grace in Grace and Glorie by Tom Ziegler.
Grant is a recipient of The Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and The L.A. Stage Alliance Award and The Backstage West Garlan Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Del Shores' The Trials And Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife. She was just nominated for an Ovation Award for Grace and Glorie.
On television, Grant was a favorite on the Six Feet Under episode, "The Rapture." She married then cheated on Jason Lee on My Name Is Earl. She has been a regular or recurred on many television shows including Sordid Lives: The Series, Malcolm in the Middle, King of the Hill, Yes, Dear, Everwood, Delta, Wonderfalls and Jericho.
She has guest-starred in hundreds of hit television series such as The Office,Friends, The X-Files, Angel, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Grant starred in Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time, produced by Robert Redford (PBS), The Image with Albert Finney (HBO), Switched at Birth and Fall from Grace (NBC). She recently did a very well-received mini-sode of True Blood.
Grant was a student of the late great Milton Katselas at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. She lives in Los Angeles with husband, actor Michael Chieffo, and daughter Mary Chieffo, also an actress.
Click HERE to go to Beth's IMDB page.