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Topher Grace (born July 12, 1978Topher Grace is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing the role of Eric Forman on the situation comedy in New York City, New York to John Grace (a Connecticut-based business executive) and Patricia (an office worker and assistant to the schoolmaster of the New Canaan Country School in New Canaan, Connecticut); he has a sister, Jenny. Grace grew up in Darien, Connecticut, where he knew actress Kate Bosworth and was sometimes babysat by actress Chloe Sevigny, who also later appeared with him in high school stage plays. He chose to go by the name .

Grace attended the Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, where he was noticed by the producer of (whose daughter also attended the school) while playing the leading role of Pseudolus in a local stage production of , which debuted in 1998. The sitcom was successful and Grace became well known amid television watchers; he played the role until 2005, after which he left the series in order to pursue feature film work. The series was renewed for another season despite his absence.

Grace briefly attended college at the University of Southern California, but left during his freshman year to concentrate on his television work and to pursue a career in film. He played a minor role as a prep school drug addict in director Steven Soderbergh's (2003).

In 2004, Grace had the starring role in two major feature films; he played the leading roles in the Robert Luketic directed , in which he played an ambitious but troubled corporate executive. In the same year, Grace also starred the film, was recognized by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures in the category of "Breakthrough Performance by an Actor".

In 2005, Grace hosted , directed by Sam Raimi. He is rumored to be portraying Eddie Brock (aka the malevolent symbiote Venom), a fan-favorite Spider-Man villain. This is a sharp contrast to his usual nice-guy image (see