---
name: "Grant Thompson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/grant-thompson"
fi1m_id: "grant-thompson"
imdb_id: "nm0860184"
tmdb_id: 42392
wikidata_id: "Q24808846"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "23 July 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T10:47:31.028100+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Grant Thompson

## Identity

Grant Thompson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/grant-thompson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** grant-thompson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0860184
- **TMDB ID:** 42392
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24808846
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24808846, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860184/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42392

Writer. Born 23 July 1976 in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 23 July 1976, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24808846, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860184/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42392

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*McFarland, USA*](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md) (72)

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## Biography

Grant Thompson is an American actor, writer and producer. Born on 23 July 1976 in Gainesville, Florida, he graduated from Harvard University in 1998.

He began his career as an actor with roles including Costa Mesa Quarterback in *Bring It On* (2000), Hunter in *The Butterfly Effect* (2004), Boat Patrolman in *National Treasure: Book of Secrets* (2007), Wallet Mountie in *Blades of Glory* (2007), Allan Watterman in *Chuck* (2007), Damon in *The O.C.* (2003) and Ewan Keith in *Lizzie McGuire* (2001). He later worked as a writer and producer, receiving a screenplay credit on the Disney film *McFarland, USA* (2015). Thompson won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for the film.

*Sources: imdb.com, archive.harvardwood.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *McFarland, USA* (2015), Fi1m 72, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Hating Game* (2021), Executive Producer
- *United We Fall* (2020), series, as Daphne's Dad
- *Good Girls* (2018), series, as Police Officer
- *McFarland, USA* (2015), Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)
- *National Treasure: Book of Secrets* (2007), as Boat Patrolman
- *Chuck* (2007), series, as Allan Watterman — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/chuck.md)
- *Blades of Glory* (2007), as Wallet Mountie
- *Close to Home* (2005), series, as Scott Birdseye
- *The Butterfly Effect* (2004), as Hunter
- *The O.C.* (2003), series, as Damon
- *Lizzie McGuire* (2001), series, as Ewan Keith
- *Bring It On* (2000), as Costa Mesa Quarterback
- *The Practice* (1997), series, as Michael Holmstead
- *7th Heaven* (1996), series, as Young Man

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