Clark Gregg Biography

Robert Clark Gregg (born April 2, 1962) is an American actor, screenwriter and director, best known for his role as Phil Coulson in the films Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), and Marvel's The Avengers (2012), and in the television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which airs on the ABC network. He also voices the character on the animated television series Ultimate Spider-Man. Gregg has also co-starred as Christine Campbell's ex-husband Richard in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, which debuted in March 2006 and concluded in May 2010. He is also known for playing FBI Special Agent Mike Casper on the NBC series The West Wing and Cam, the on-and-off boyfriend of Jack (and client of Grace) on the NBC series Will & Grace.

Career

Gregg has been featured in a number of supporting roles in films, such as Lovely & Amazing, In Good Company, and The Human Stain, and a number of guest spots on TV series, such as Will & Grace, Sports Night, Sex and the City and The West Wing. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath.

He is the director and screenwriter of the 2008 film Choke, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name, starring Sam Rockwell. Gregg consulted his father, a retired religion professor at Stanford, for the quotation from Paul of Tarsus' letter to the Galatians which Gregg used in Choke. Gregg's father is also the former chaplain at Stanford Memorial Church.

In 2008, Gregg appeared in the film Iron Man as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson. In 2010, Gregg reprised his role as Agent Coulson for Iron Man 2. Gregg had since signed up for a multiple film deal as the character with Marvel Studios. In 2011, he returned again as Coulson for Thor. Gregg noted his being a part of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe as being very exciting, "Agent Coulson was one of the guys who wasn't really in the comic books, and he was a very kind of small role in Iron Man," he said, "and I was just very lucky that they chose to expand that character and chose to put him more into the universe of it. It's really a blast!" Following on from his appearance in Thor, he again reprised his role in The Avengers. Gregg also stars in a series of Marvel short films that center around his character and can be seen on the Blu-ray releases of the films.

In October 2010, Gregg was part of the cast of a staged reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart alongside Dylan Walsh, Lisa Kudrow, and Tate Donovan, presented in Los Angeles on the occasion of the play's 25th anniversary (and preceding the play's 2011 Broadway premiere, which retained elements of this staged reading); the reading was directed by his father-in-law, Joel Grey.

In late October 2012, Joss Whedon, Kevin Feige and Gregg announced that he would be reprising his role as agent Phil Coulson in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series' pilot.

On April 20, 2013, Trust Me, a film written and directed by Gregg, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Personal life

Gregg was born April 2, 1962 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the son of Mary Layne (née Shine) and Robert Clark Gregg, an Episcopal minister and professor at Stanford University. Gregg has been married since July 21, 2001 to actress Jennifer Grey. The couple has one child, daughter Stella, born December 3, 2001. He co-starred with Grey in the Lifetime TV movie Road to Christmas and with her father Joel Grey in Choke.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Lip Service	Stage Manager	TV movie
1988	Things Change	Stage Manager
1989	Fat Man and Little Boy	Douglas Panton
1991	Law & Order	Patrick Dunne	TV series (1 episode: "Life Choice")
1991	Shannon's Deal		TV series (1 episode: "Strangers in the Night")
1991	A Woman Named Jackie	Ken O'Donnell	TV mini-series
1992	Lana in Love	Marty
1993	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Dickinson	TV series (1 episode: "Princeton, February 1916)
1994	Ride Me	Jake Shank
1994	I Love Trouble	Darryl Beekman, Jr.
1994	Clear and Present Danger	Staff Sergeant
1994	The George Carlin Show	Dad	TV series (1 episode: "George Does A Bad Thing")
1995	The Usual Suspects	Dr. Walters
1995	Tyson	Kevin Rooney	TV movie
1995	The Commish	Tom Cannon	TV series (2 episodes)
1995	Above Suspicion	Randy
1995	Central Park West		TV series (1 episode: "Behind Your Back")
1996	Touched by an Angel	Don Dudey	TV series (1 episode: "Lost and Found")
1997	The Spanish Prisoner	FBI Sniper
1997	The Last Time I Committed Suicide	Cop No. 1
1997	Six Ways to Sunday	Benjamin Taft
1998	The Adventures of Sebastian Cole	Hank/Henrietta Rossi
1999	Magnolia	WDKK Floor Director
2000	Sports Night	The Stranger	TV series (2 episodes)
2000	State and Main	Doug Mackenzie
2000	Sex and the City	Harris Bragen	TV series (1 episode: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell")
2000	The Practice	Julie McGrath's Brother	TV series (1 episode: "Brother's Keepers")
2001	Artificial Intelligence: AI	Supernerd
2001	Lovely & Amazing	Bill
2001	The West Wing	FBI Special Agent Michael Casper	TV series (8 episodes)
2002	One Hour Photo	Det. Paul Outerbridge
2002	My Sister's Keeper	Harvey	TV movie
2002	Live from Baghdad	Eason Jordan	TV movie
2002	We Were Soldiers	Capt. Tom Metsker
2003	Northfork	Mr. Hadfield	Uncredited
2003	Will & Grace	Cam	TV series (1 episode: "May Divorce Be with You")
2003	'	Officer Hanna
2003	The Human Stain	Nelson Primus
2004	Spartan	Miller
2004	In Enemy Hands	U.S.S. Swordfish: Executive Officer Teddy Goodman
2004	The Shield	William Faulks	TV series (2 episodes)
2004	In Good Company	Mark Steckle
2005	CSI: NY	D.A. Allen McShane	TV series (1 episode: "The Fall")
2006	When a Stranger Calls	Ben Johnson
2006	Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas	Publisher
2006	Hoot	Chuck Muckle
2006	Road to Christmas	Tom Pullman	TV movie
2006"2010	The New Adventures of Old Christine	Richard Campbell	TV series (88 episodes)
2007	In the Land of Women	Nelson Hardwicke
2007	The Air I Breathe	Henry
2008	Choke	Lord High Charlie	Also writer and director
2008	Iron Man	Agent Phil Coulson
2009	(500) Days of Summer	Vance
2010	Iron Man 2	Agent Phil Coulson
2011	Thor	Agent Phil Coulson
2011	Mr. Popper's Penguins	Nat Jones
2011	Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant	Agent Phil Coulson	Short
2011	Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer	Agent Phil Coulson	Short
2012	Marvel's The Avengers	Agent Phil Coulson	Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2012	Much Ado About Nothing	Leonato
2012	Ultimate Spider-Man	Agent Phil Coulson/Principal Coulson (voice)	TV series
2012	Light Years	Mr. Markovic
2013	The To Do List	Judge Clark	Post-production
2013	Labor Day		Post-production
2013	Very Good Girls	Lilly's father	Post-production
2013	Trust Me	Howard	Writer/director
2013	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Agent Phil Coulson	Series regular
2013	LEGO Marvel Super Heroes	Agent Phil Coulson	Video Game