American actor
Frank Anthony Grillo (born June 8, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Brock Rumlow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and animated series What If...? (2021). He had his first leading role in the action-horror film The Purge: Anarchy (2014), portraying Sergeant Leo Barnes, a role he reprised in The Purge: Election Year (2016), and has also appeared in Warrior (2011), The Grey (2012), End of Watch (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Wolf Warrior 2 and Wheelman (both 2017), and Boss Level (2021). Grillo's television work includes the lead role in Kingdom (2014–2017) and recurring roles in Battery Park (2000), For the People (2002–2003), The Shield (2002–2003), Prison Break (2005–2006), Blind Justice (2005), The Kill Point (2007) and Billions (2020).
I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.
I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.
I'm not really enamored by movie stars.
I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.
I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.
It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.
I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.
My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.
I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.
You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.
I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.
By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.