Early life

Gregg was born April 2, 1962 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Mary Layne (née Shine) and Robert Clark Gregg, an Episcopal priest and Stanford University professor. His family moved around; he had lived in seven cities by the time he was 17. He attended high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where his father was a professor at nearby Duke University. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years before dropping out and moving to Manhattan. He worked various jobs, such as being a bar back, a security guard at the Guggenheim Museum, and a parking valet at a restaurant. He later enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied drama and English, and graduated in 1986.

Career

Gregg was a founding member, and later artistic director, of the off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company, which formed in 1983. Gregg has been featured in a number of supporting roles in films, such as Lovely & Amazing, The Human Stain, and In Good Company, and a number of guest spots on TV series, such as Will & Grace, Sports Night, Sex and the City and The West Wing. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2000 thriller What Lies Beneath.

He is the director and screenwriter of the 2008 film Choke, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name, starring Sam Rockwell. Gregg consulted his father, a retired religion professor at Stanford, for the quotation from Saint Paul's letter to the Galatians which Gregg used in Choke. Gregg's father is also the former chaplain at Stanford Memorial Church.

In 2008, Gregg appeared in the film Iron Man as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson. In 2010, Gregg reprised his role as Agent Coulson for Iron Man 2. Gregg had since signed up for a multiple film deal as the character with Marvel Studios. In 2011, he returned again as Coulson for Thor. Gregg noted his being a part of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe as being very exciting, "Agent Coulson was one of the guys who wasn't really in the comic books, and he was a very kind of small role in Iron Man," he said, "and I was just very lucky that they chose to expand that character and chose to put him more into the universe of it. It's really a blast!" Following on from his appearance in Thor, he again reprised his role in The Avengers. Gregg also stars in a series of Marvel short films that center around his character and can be seen on the Blu-ray releases of the films.

In October 2010, Gregg was part of the cast of a staged reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart alongside Dylan Walsh, Lisa Kudrow, and Tate Donovan, presented in Los Angeles on the occasion of the play's 25th anniversary (and preceding the play's 2011 Broadway premiere, which retained elements of this staged reading); the reading was directed by his father-in-law, Joel Grey.

In late October 2012, Joss Whedon, Kevin Feige, and Gregg announced that he would be reprising his role as agent Phil Coulson in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series' pilot. On April 20, 2013, Trust Me, a film written and directed by Gregg, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film found limited release in the United States in June 2014.

Personal life

Gregg has been married since July 21, 2001 to actress Jennifer Grey; the couple co-starred in the Lifetime TV movie Road to Christmas. They have a daughter Stella, born December 3, 2001. He is a sober alcoholic, and describes himself as a member of a Jewish family (his wife is Jewish). He has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Things Change	Stage Manager
1989	Fat Man and Little Boy	Douglas Panton
1992	Lana in Love	Marty
1994	Ride Me	Jake Shank
1994	I Love Trouble	Darryl Beekman, Jr.
1994	Clear and Present Danger	Staff Sergeant
1995	The Usual Suspects	Dr. Walters
1995	Above Suspicion	Randy
1997	The Spanish Prisoner	FBI Sniper
1997	The Last Time I Committed Suicide	Cop No. 1
1997	Six Ways to Sunday	Benjamin Taft
1998	The Adventures of Sebastian Cole	Hank/Henrietta Rossi
1999	Magnolia	WDKK Floor Director
2000	State and Main	Doug Mackenzie
2001	Artificial Intelligence: AI	Supernerd
2001	Lovely & Amazing	Bill
2002	One Hour Photo	Det. Paul Outerbridge
2002	We Were Soldiers	Capt. Tom Metsker
2003	Northfork	Mr. Hadfield	Uncredited
2003	11:14	Officer Hanna
2003	The Human Stain	Nelson Primus
2004	Spartan	Miller
2004	In Enemy Hands	U.S.S. Swordfish: Executive Officer Teddy Goodman
2004	In Good Company	Mark Steckle
2006	When a Stranger Calls	Ben Johnson
2006	Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas	Publisher
2006	Hoot	Chuck Muckle
2007	In the Land of Women	Nelson Hardwicke
2007	The Air I Breathe	Henry
2008	Choke	Lord High Charlie	Also writer and director
2008	Iron Man	Agent Phil Coulson
2009	(500) Days of Summer	Vance
2010	Iron Man 2	Agent Phil Coulson
2011	Thor	Agent Phil Coulson
2011	Mr. Popper's Penguins	Nat Jones
2011	Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant	Agent Phil Coulson	Short
2011	Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer	Agent Phil Coulson	Short
2012	The Avengers	Agent Phil Coulson	Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2012	Much Ado About Nothing	Leonato
2012	Light Years	Mr. Markovic
2013	The To Do List	Judge George Klark
2013	Labor Day	Gerald
2013	Trust Me	Howard Holloway	Also writer and director
2014	Very Good Girls	Edward Berger

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Lip Service	Stage Manager	TV Movie
1991	Law & Order	Patrick Dunne	Episode: "Life Choice"
1991	Shannon's Deal	Mercer	2 episodes
1991	A Woman Named Jackie	Ken O'Donnell	TV Mini-series
1993	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Dickinson	Episode: "Princeton, February 1916"
1994	The George Carlin Show	Dad	Episode: "George Does A Bad Thing"
1995	Tyson	Kevin Rooney	TV Movie
1995	The Commish	Tom Cannon	2 episodes
1995	Central Park West	Manager	Episode: "Behind Your Back"
1996	Touched by an Angel	Don Dudey	Episode: "Lost and Found"
2000	Sports Night	The Stranger	2 episodes
2000	Sex and the City	Harris Bragen	Episode: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
2000	The Practice	Julie McGrath's Brother	Episode: "Brother's Keepers"
2001	The West Wing	FBI Special Agent Michael Casper	8 episodes
2002	My Sister's Keeper	Harvey	TV Movie
2002	Live from Baghdad	Eason Jordan	TV Movie
2003	Will & Grace	Cam	Episode: "May Divorce Be with You"
2004	The Shield	William Faulks	2 episodes
2005	CSI: NY	D.A. Allen McShane	Episode: "The Fall"
2006	The Road to Christmas	Tom Pullman	TV Movie
2006-2010	The New Adventures of Old Christine	Richard Campbell	Main cast 88 episodes
2012-present	Ultimate Spider-Man	Agent Phil Coulson / Principal Coulson (voice)	Main cast 29 episodes
2013-present	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Agent/Director Phil Coulson	Main cast 66 episodes
2013	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Himself	Episode: "Clark Gregg Wears a Navy Blazer & White Collared Shirt"
2016	BattleBots	Himself	Season 7

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	LEGO Marvel Super Heroes	Agent Phil Coulson	Voice only
2013	Marvel Heroes	Agent Phil Coulson	Voice only
2016	Lego Marvel's Avengers	Phil Coulson	Voice only

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2000	Film Independent Spirit Award	Best Supporting Male	The Adventures of Sebastian Cole	Nominated
	National Board of Review Award	Best Acting by an Ensemble	State and Main	Won
2001	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Ensemble Cast Performance		Won
	Florida Film Critics Circle Award	Best Ensemble Cast		Won
2008	Sundance Film Festival	Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic	Choke	Nominated
		Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast		Won
2013	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actor	The Avengers	Won

[ Source: Wikipedia ]