The actor Luke timothy grimes He was born on January 21, 1984 in Dayton, Ohio, in the United States, being the youngest of the four children of Angie Barker and the Rev. Randy Grimes, a Pentecostal pastor, of the Open Bible Christian Church.
Luke He finished high school at Dayton Christian High School in 2002. He then moved to New York to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Around this time, he auditioned to play Elvis Presley in the 2005 CBS miniseries, but the role went to Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.
His first feature film job was as a supporting role in the horror film “Deadly seduction“(2006), followed by drama”War Eagle, Arkansas“in 2007 and the mystery comedy”The conspiracy“, in 2008, where he acted alongside Mischa Barton and Bruce Willis.
A year later he began working on the ABC drama “Brothers & Sisters“, in the role of Ryan lafferty, the illegitimate son of the family patriarch. Starting in season 4, her character became a series regular.
Back to the movies Luke co-starred with Ellen Barkin in the drama “Shit Year“, in 2010. That same year the pilot of the future series starred for the FX signal”Outlaw Country“with Haley Bennett and Mary Steenburgen. Grimes he played a cowboy named Eli larkin. The series was ultimately not cast by FX, but the pilot aired on August 23, 2012 as a television movie.
In 2012, he also worked alongside Liam Neeson in the thriller “Revenge: Istanbul Connection)” playing the boyfriend of Neeson’s daughter.
In 2013, Grimes landed the recurring role of James on the sixth season of “True bloodLater, his character became a regular in the series, in the seventh and final season. However, Grimes he left “True Blood” before the end, supposedly due to differences in the direction his character was taking; another actor, Nelsan Ellis, claimed that Grimes I didn’t want to play a gay character. The representative of Grimes He said that his departure was due to a scheduling conflict with the filming of his next films “American Sniper” and “Fifty Shades of Gray” and had nothing to do with these arguments. His role was ultimately played by Nathan Parsons.
On October 25, 2013, Grimes was chosen to interpret Elliot, the adoptive brother of Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) in the movie “Fifty Shades of Gray,” which is scheduled for release in 2015.
Among his latest works not yet released, the actor can be seen as the protagonist of the horror film “Manhattan Undying“; the dramas”forever” Y “Shangri-La Suite“and the biopic of action directed by Clint Eastwood,”American sniper“, in which he leads the cast alongside Liam Neeson and Sienna Miller, all to be released in 2015.