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| David Giuntoli | |
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| Roles: | Director Actor |
| Character: | Nick Burkhardt |
| First Episode Directed: | "Oh Captain, My Captain" |
| Last Episode Directed: | "Oh Captain, My Captain" |
| Episodes Directed: | 1 |
| Wikipedia: | David Giuntoli |
| IMDb: | David Giuntoli |
| Twitter: | @mistergiuntoli |
David C. Giuntoli is an American actor. He is best known for the lead role of Detective Nick Burkhardt in the NBC drama Grimm.
Early life
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Giuntoli was raised in the St. Louis, Missouri suburb of Huntleigh. He admits to not being very athletic as a child. In an Access Hollywood interview, Giuntoli stated, "I was like three feet shorter than I am now until I was a sophomore in high school. But I had the same sized head and ass as I do now. I was an awkward little fellow. In high school I started gravitating a little toward acting." After graduating from St. Louis University High School in 1998, he attended Indiana University Bloomington, earning a Bachelors Degree in International Business and Finance in 2002.
Career
David Giuntoli returned to St. Louis after college. However, his heart was in being an entertainer instead of a career in finance, something his family realized early on as he always enjoyed making people laugh from a young age. Reconnecting with his high school theater teacher, he began taking acting lessons locally. His first career break came in 2003 when he was discovered by talent scouts for MTV and cast in the networks reality series Road Rules: South Pacific. The three-month adventure in the South Pacific and a subsequent appearance on the seventh season of Real World/Road Rules Challenge provided the resources to pay off his college debt and further cemented his decision to pursue acting as a full time career.
In 2007, he moved to Los Angeles, California to further pursue an acting career. There he studied under director and acting teacher Chris Fields before joining the Echo Theater Company. A long series of guest appearances on various TV series an TV movies followed, including Nip/Tuck, Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Privileged, Without a Trace, and Cold Case, among others. Giuntoli was also in consideration for the title role of the relaunched Superman movie Man of Steel, but he was eventually beaten out by English actor Henry Cavill. His biggest role in TV to date is the NBC series Grimm, which premiered in October, 2011. In addition to his work on Grimm, Giuntoli was seen in 2012 in the motion picture Caroline and Jackie in a supporting role.
On March 24th 2014, David Giuntoli was among the Grimm cast members who received an honorary badge from the Portland Police Department.[1]
Giuntoli was cast in the ABC series A Million Little Things in March 2018.
Personal life
He and Bitsie Tulloch are currently married. They got engaged in April 2016, but they waited until July 23 to announce their engagement at Comic Con.[2] The couple got married in June 2017 in Montana, and they made the news public on July 6, 2017.[3][4] On February 14, 2019, David became a father when Bitsie announced that she had given birth to their daughter, Vivian.[5]
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Trivia
- David Giuntoli is deaf in his left ear.[6]
References
| Season 1 Appearances | ||||||||||
| "Pilot": ✓ |
"Bears Will Be Bears": ✓ |
"Beeware": ✓ |
"Lonelyhearts": ✓ |
"Danse Macabre": ✓ |
"The Three Bad Wolves": ✓ |
"Let Your Hair Down": ✓ |
"Game Ogre": ✓ |
"Of Mouse and Man": ✓ |
"Organ Grinder": ✓ |
"Tarantella": ✓ |
| "Last Grimm Standing": ✓ |
"Three Coins in a Fuchsbau": ✓ |
"Plumed Serpent": ✓ |
"Island of Dreams": ✓ |
"The Thing with Feathers": ✓ |
"Love Sick": ✓ |
"Cat and Mouse": ✓ |
"Leave It to Beavers": ✓ |
"Happily Ever Aftermath": ✓ |
"Big Feet": ✓ |
"Woman in Black": ✓ |
| Season 2 Appearances | ||||||||||
| "Bad Teeth": ✓ |
"The Kiss": ✓ |
"Bad Moon Rising": ✓ |
"Quill": ✓ |
"The Good Shepherd": ✓ |
"Over My Dead Body": ✓ |
"The Bottle Imp": ✓ |
"The Other Side": ✓ |
"La Llorona": ✓ |
"The Hour of Death": ✓ |
"To Protect and Serve Man": ✓ |
| "Season of the Hexenbiest": ✓ |
"Face Off": ✓ |
"Natural Born Wesen": ✓ |
"Mr. Sandman": ✓ |
"Nameless": ✓ |
"One Angry Fuchsbau": ✓ |
"Volcanalis": ✓ |
"Endangered": ✓ |
"Kiss of the Muse": ✓ |
"The Waking Dead": ✓ |
"Goodnight, Sweet Grimm": ✓ |
| Season 3 Appearances | ||||||||||
| "The Ungrateful Dead": ✓ |
"PTZD": ✓ |
"A Dish Best Served Cold": ✓ |
"One Night Stand": ✓ |
"El Cucuy": ✓ |
"Stories We Tell Our Young": ✓ |
"Cold Blooded": ✓ |
"Twelve Days of Krampus": ✓ |
"Red Menace": ✓ |
"Eyes of the Beholder": ✓ |
"The Good Soldier": ✓ |
| "The Wild Hunt": ✓ |
"Revelation": ✓ |
"Mommy Dearest": ✓ |
"Once We Were Gods": ✓ |
"The Show Must Go On": ✓ |
"Synchronicity": ✓ |
"The Law of Sacrifice": ✓ |
"Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen": ✓ |
"My Fair Wesen": ✓ |
"The Inheritance": ✓ |
"Blond Ambition": ✓ |
| Season 4 Appearances | ||||||||||
| "Thanks for the Memories": ✓ |
"Octopus Head": ✓ |
"The Last Fight": ✓ |
"Dyin' on a Prayer": ✓ |
"Cry Luison": ✓ |
"Highway of Tears": ✓ |
"The Grimm Who Stole Christmas": ✓ |
"Chupacabra": ✓ |
"Wesenrein": ✓ |
"Tribunal": ✓ |
"Death Do Us Part": ✓ |
| "Maréchaussée": ✓ |
"Trial by Fire": ✓ |
"Bad Luck": ✓ |
"Double Date": ✓ |
"Heartbreaker": ✓ |
"Hibernaculum": ✓ |
"Mishipeshu": ✓ |
"Iron Hans": ✓ |
"You Don't Know Jack": ✓ |
"Headache": ✓ |
"Cry Havoc": ✓ |
| Season 5 Appearances | ||||||||||
| "The Grimm Identity": ✓ |
"Clear and Wesen Danger": ✓ |
"Lost Boys": ✓ |
"Maiden Quest": ✓ |
"The Rat King": ✓ |
"Wesen Nacht": ✓ |
"Eve of Destruction": ✓ |
"A Reptile Dysfunction": ✓ |
"Star-Crossed": ✓ |
"Map of the Seven Knights": ✓ |
"Key Move": ✓ |
| "Into the Schwarzwald": ✓ |
"Silence of the Slams": ✓ |
"Lycanthropia": ✓ |
"Skin Deep": ✓ |
"The Believer": ✓ |
"Inugami": ✓ |
"Good to the Bone": ✓ |
"The Taming of the Wu": ✓ |
"Bad Night": ✓ |
"Set Up": ✓ |
"The Beginning of the End": ✓ |
| Season 6 Appearances | ||||||||||
| "Fugitive": ✓ |
"Trust Me Knot": ✓ |
"Oh Captain, My Captain": ✓ |
"El Cuegle": ✓ |
"The Seven Year Itch": ✓ |
"Breakfast in Bed": ✓ |
"Blind Love": ✓ | ||||
| "The Son Also Rises": ✓ |
"Tree People": ✓ |
"Blood Magic": ✓ |
"Where the Wild Things Were": ✓ |
"Zerstörer Shrugged": ✓ |
"The End": ✓ | |||||
| Season 6 Episodes Directed | ||||||||||
| "Fugitive" X |
"Trust Me Knot": X |
"Oh Captain, My Captain": ✓ |
"El Cuegle": X |
"The Seven Year Itch": X |
"Breakfast in Bed": X |
"Blind Love": X | ||||
| "The Son Also Rises": X |
"Tree People": X |
"Blood Magic": X |
"Where the Wild Things Were": X |
"Zerstörer Shrugged": X |
"The End": X | |||||
| Webisode Appearances | |||
| "Bad Hair Day": X |
"Meltdown": Voice |
"Love is in the Air: Elegant Endeavors": X | |