Grant Lancaster
Acting
Biography
Grant Lancaster is a British-American actor, filmmaker, and comedian originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He found his love of performance at the early age of seven after playing Puff The Magic Dragon in elementary school, and seeing Ace Ventura the same year. The rest was history. Since then he has received training at the London Academy of Film & TV, studied at the San Francisco Comedy College and Shelton Studios in California, completed a Bachelors Degree in Acting out in New York, where he graduated with honors and an academic minor in psychology, and received a full scholarship to earn his Master's Degree in Acting from UC Irvine. While working toward his Masters, he wrote the feature film 'Wilt', which he then co-directed, produced and starred in the following summer in New York City. He is a core creative member of The Shorts Show, a popular New York based sketch comedy series. His work has been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, London Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Big Apple Film Festival, and the SAG Short Film Festival, to name a few. He is also a seasoned photographer, slam poet and snowboarder.
Known For
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
The Blacklist
When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA case officer Colin Glass. Together they work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets.
CIA
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups.
Boiling Pot
Some have described love as a spell. Others have described it as a sickness. What they have in common is the idea that love, in its many forms, has the power to overwhelm the senses and control behavior. Prism is an anthology feature in 7 chapters exploring several genres – comedy, dark-comedy, drama, science-fiction, and suspense.
Prism
A corrupt senator arranges for the murder of his biggest liability, his erratic burnout stepdaughter, only for her to unwittingly discover her natural talent as an untouchable killer.
Killing Mary Sue
Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
Beautiful Something
Despite trying to leave behind his life of crime, Danny reluctantly teams with naïve rich kid Liam and wildcard drug dealer Kit Viper. A botched robbery leaves them in possession of a mysterious supernatural artifact with immense potential.
The Blacklight
Wilt is a dark romantic drama examining the thin line between the love of a friend and the love of a soul mate. The film follows the relationship of Miles and Sarah, two best friends from childhood with a six year age difference who grew up across the street from each other. When Sarah gets into Columbia University out of high school, she comes to visit Miles in New York City for the weekend before she moves into her dorms.
Wilt
15 years after tragedy sends him into depression, Pee Pee Wong (Andreas Beckett), the world's ex-top gunslinger is abruptly met with his past. Will he be able to conquer his fears and protect 'The Last House of Super Sexy, Barely Clothed, Drug Guzzling Nymphomaniacs' from his savage arc nemesis Wong Wong Pee (Johnny Christos) and his gang of horny ruffians? 'What's Eating Pee Pee Wong?' takes you into the wild west like never before in writer/director Phree Swearingen's latest philm.