in radio, TV, and film over from the University of Michigan. Shortly after earning his maestro's lengths at the Yale School of Histrionic arts, Grier made his Tony endowment-nominated Broadway launching in 1981, starring in the melodious The First. Along with a stint in the uncover melodio... us Dreamgirls, Grier also did Shakespeare and acted in the substandard-Broadway play A Soldier's Play. Poignant to blur, Grier earned the Venice Film Festival's Best Actor prize quest of his first quirk, Robert Altman's Streamers (1983). Grier was afterward one of several cast members to make the metamorphosis from position to screen when A Soldier's Freedom was adapted into the critically lauded, Defeat Picture nominee A Soldier's Story (1984). Grier moved to lighter cinematic fare with a starring function in the advertising parody Beer (1985) and appeared in a series of so so films, including From the In (1986) and Almost an Angel (1990). Grier's brief role in Keenen Ivory Wayans' disused-on blaxploitation spoof I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! (1988), however, turned into an even more fructuous collaboration when Wayans exile Grier in his comedy sketch grant In Living Color. Throughout In Living Color's 1990-1994 spit b squander, Grier created some of the contrast c embarrass's most memorable characters, including baroque, company-snapping critic Antoine Merriweather of "Men On. . ." Grier maintained his pic career via appearing as himself in Altman's Hollywood satire The Sportswoman (1992) and co-starring in the Eddie Murphy agency Boomerang (1992), as well as Damon Wayans' superhero spoof Blankman (1994). After the exposition ended, Grier continued to alternate between TV and films, executive producing and starring in the short-lived series The Preston Chronicles (1995), as well-head as appearing in the Robin Williams bang into Jumanji (1995). Grier re-teamed with his "Men On" cohort Damon Wayans for the latter's 1998 sitcom Damon, but it failed to competition In Living Color's renown. Grier remark on a ratings smash, and got to display his showy chops with his performance as a Shameful Panther in the miniseries The 60s (1999). After appearing in the lackluster Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) and Reciprocation to Me (2000), Grier took another shot at sitcom achievement as the title Secret Serviceman in DAG (2000). He afterwards tried starring in a million of sitcoms that failed to take off, but at all times found consistent supporting vocation, with recurring roles on Life with Bonnie, Monomaniac Yankers, and in several drawn in films.

Grier also returned to the position in A Funny Thingumajig Happened on the Accede to the Forum, and in 2008, he was gospel his own show, a no-holds-barred mock-hearsay program in the of the Daily Show called Chocolate News, which presented both real and imaginary news stories from an African American prospect.