Adrian Grenier is a famous American film and television producer, director, musician, as well as an actor. To the public, Adrian Grenier is perhaps best known as Vincent Chase, a young Hollywood film star in a comedy-drama series called “Entourage”. Created by Doug Ellin, the series debuted on television screens in 2004 and finished its eight season run in 2011. Mark Wahlberg was one of the executive producers of the show and he largely contributed to the main theme of the show, which turned out to be loosely based on his personal experiences before he became a big Hollywood celebrity. “Entourage” mainly explored male to male friendships and placed characters in realistic situations of a modern-day Hollywood. In addition to Grenier, other main characters were portrayed by Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jeremy Piven and Jerry Ferrara. Over the years, the show also featured cameo appearances from Christina Aguilera, Kanye West, Jessica Alba, Eminem, and Dennis Hopper to name a few. “Entourage” received high praise from the critics and went on to be nominated for 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, and 14 Golden Globe Awards. It also inspired the creation of an upcoming film based on the series called “Entourage”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015. In the movie, Adrian Grenier will reprise the role of Vince Chase.
Adrian Grenier Net Worth $15 Million
A famous actor, how rich is Adrian Grenier? According to sources, for his role in “Entourage” Grenier received a salary of $200 000 per episode. Meanwhile, Adrian Grenier’s net worth is estimated to be $15 million, most of which he accumulated due to his acting career.
Adrian Grenier was born in 1976, in New Mexico, US, however, he spent most of his childhood in New York, where he studied at the Fiorello H. La Guardia High School and upon graduation enrolled in Bard College. After leaving Bard College, Grenier decided to pursue a career in acting and shortly after that he made his movie debut in “Arresting Gena”. Prior to his big breakthrough with “Entourage”, Grenier also starred in “Drive Me Crazy”, a romantic comedy film in which he appeared alongside Melissa Joan Hart and Stephen Collins in the main roles, and “Harvard Man” with Sarah Michelle Gellar. After his success with “Entourage”, Adrian Grenier received more acting opportunities and appeared in such films as “The Devil Wears Prada” with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, as well as “Goodbye World” with Gaby Hoffman and Ben McKenzie, which was met with positive reviews during the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2013.
In addition to being an actor, Adrian Grenier is a well-known director and producer too. In 2002, he debuted with “Shot in the Dark”, a film which premiered during the Tribeca Film Festival. Grenier also directed a television series called “Alter Eco”, a documentary entitled “Teenage Paparazzo”, and produced a documentary film called “How to Make Money Selling Drugs”, which features interviews from such famous figures as 50 Cent, Rick Ross and Eminem.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2007), PRISM Awards Performance in a Comedy Series (2011-2012), Teen Choice Award (2006,2007, 2009)
Movies
“The Devil Wears Prada” (2006), "Entourage" (2004-2011), "Drive Me Crazy" (1999), “Teenage Paparazzo” (2010), "Harvard Man" (2002)
TV Shows
Entourage, Vietnam in HD, Alter Eco
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Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.
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I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.
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I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
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I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
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Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.
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Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.
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Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.
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Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.
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What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
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You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
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I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.
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I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.
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I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.
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I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!
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I was rebellious.
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It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
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Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.
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Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.
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Certainly, if it had been anything other than an HBO show I'd probably still be in Mexico now with a Mexican wife and kids.
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I'm one with New York and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.
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Attended the famous NYC "FAME" high school Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts where he studied Drama.
Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in Manhattan, New York.
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He was raised by his mother, Karesse Grenier, a New York City real estate agent. Growing up, he didn't know who his father was. His parents met while living in a commune, and split up soon after Adrian's birth. The documentary Shot in the Dark (2002) covers Adrian's search to find out who his father was, meet and get to know him. Also involved in the film, as both producer and on-camera interviewer, was Adrian's friend Jonathan Davidson.
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Attended the Fieldston Summer Performing Arts Institute
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Played a member of the entourage of the movie star character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie Celebrity (1998). Later, he starred in the TV series Entourage (2004), in which he played a movie star with an entourage of his own.
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His father, John Miles Dunbar, was born in Ohio, and has English, Irish, Scottish, and German ancestry. His mother, Karesse Grenier, was born in New Mexico, to a family of Mexican descent (Spanish, with some Indigenous), as well as a smaller amount of French ancestry. The word "Grenier" is the equivalent of "attic" in French.
$15 Million
