---
name: "Yano Anaya"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yano-anaya"
fi1m_id: "yano-anaya"
imdb_id: "nm0025764"
tmdb_id: 12713
wikidata_id: "Q8048920"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 July 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:00:19.201265+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."
---

# Yano Anaya

## Identity

Yano Anaya

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yano-anaya
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yano-anaya
- **IMDb ID:** nm0025764
- **TMDB ID:** 12713
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8048920
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8048920, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025764/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12713

Actor. Born 13 July 1972 in San Fernando Valley, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 July 1972, San Fernando Valley, California, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8048920, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025764/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12713

## Biography

Yano Anaya is an American actor. He is known for playing Grover Dill in the film *A Christmas Story* (1983). He also appeared as a paperboy in *Better Off Dead...* (1985) and in *The Blue Iguana* (1988).

Anaya reprised the role of Grover Dill in *A Christmas Story Christmas* (2022). He has worked as a body transformation expert and exercise science educator, including as director of the personal trainer programme at the Atlanta School of Massage. He is the younger brother of actress Katy Kurtzman.

*Sources: imdb.com, themoviedb.org, screenrant.com, movieweb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Christmas Story* (1983), Fi1m 79, as Grover Dill — [page](https://film.one/film/a-christmas-story.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *A Christmas Story Christmas* (2022), as Grover Dill
- *The Blue Iguana* (1988), as Yano
- *Better Off Dead...* (1985), as Paperboy
- *A Christmas Story* (1983), as Grover Dill — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/a-christmas-story.md)

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