Topher Grace: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Christopher Grace (19 July 1978) is an American actor, best known for the role of Eric Forman in the situation comedy That '70s Show.

Grace, raised in Darien, Connecticut, began acting in high school musicals. His breakthrough television role, on That '70s Show, was also his first. Grace was discovered by the show's creators, whose daughters attended the same school as Grace, when they attended a school production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum where Topher played the leading role of Pseudolus. Grace chose to go by the name "Topher" in high school, after becoming frustrated with his name being abbreviated as "Chris."

Grace's first professional role was an unexpected success - That '70s Show is about to start its seventh and allegedly final season. While Grace briefly attended college at the University of Southern California, he left during his freshman year to pursue television career. Grace's first small breakthrough role was as the bad ass prep school drug addict in director Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000) and a small uncredited cameo in Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) followed.

Grace has recently broken into feature films with bigger roles, first in the Mike Newell directed Mona Lisa Smile (2003) and including a leading role in the Robert Luketic directed Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) and roles in the the upcoming Dylan Kidd film, P.S. (2004), another small romp in Soderbergh's follow up to Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12 (2004), and the Paul Weitz comedy, Synergy (2005).