Demetrius Grosse

Demetrius Grosse is an actor whose greatest visibility has been on major series such as FX’s Justified (2010-2015), NBC’s Heroes (2006-2010), and Cinemex’s Banshee (2013-2016), and whose first significant feature film role came in director/co-writer Chad Hartigan’s drama, This Is Martin Bonner (2013), premiering at the Sundance film festival where it won the NEXT Audience Award. Grosse was in the supporting cast of director Benson Lee’s Battle of the Year (2013), the 3-D dramatization of his b-boy dance documentary, Planet B-Boy (2007), starring Josh Holloway, Laz Alonso, Josh Peck, and Chris Brown, and released by Screen Gems/Sony Releasing.

Grosse appeared in a supporting role in the acclaimed, Oscar-nominated Disney version of the making of Mary Poppins (1964), the John Lee Hancock-directed Saving Mr. Banks (2013), with Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Colin Farrell, and Bradley Whitford. Grosse landed a small role in the N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton (2015), with O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell under F. Gary Gray’s direction.

Demetrius Grosse was cast by director-producer Michael Bay for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Bengazi (2016), starring James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, and Max Martini, and released by Paramount Pictures. Grosse then appeared in the Dwayne Johnson-starring sci-fi monster movie, Rampage (2018), with Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan under producer Brad Peyton’s direction for New Line Cinema and Warner Bros.

Grosse landed his first significant starring role in a feature in Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024), marking co-producer/co-writer Joshua Weigel’s directorial debut and co-starring Nika King and Elizabeth Mitchell and released by Angel Studios. Grosse then debuted his feature director-writer with the crime drama Godfrey (date to be announced), co-written with Jean Yi and Antonio Govin.