Nick Grock

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nick is the son of two educators. His father was born in Diddington, England, as his grandparents were emigrating from Poland on their way to the U.S. after World War II. His mother, the eldest daughter of an orphan-turned-successful businessman and a woman of Hepburn-esque elegance, grew up in the Philadelphia area where she studied the piano, harp, and organ. The two met at Catholic University, where his father was in the seminary and his mother accompanied the university choir on the ivories. Nick graduated from St. Joe's Prep in 1997 and received a Marquis Scholarship to attend Lafayette College, where he performed in his first theatrical production of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,' directed by Michael O'Neill, in 2001. He graduated the same year with a degree in civil engineering. Nick went on to study architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, earning a master's degree in 2005. When he was laid off in 2010 from a small Philadelphia-based architectural firm, he began acting again after a 10-year-long sabbatical, training under Drucie McDaniel and Rodney Robb, and developing his craft in student film productions at Drexel University, the University of the Arts, and Temple University. Independent filmmakers began taking note of his work and started casting him as the leading man in numerous web-distributed fan films shot in New York and Philadelphia. Soon, he began to pick up more intense roles in larger productions destined for submission to local, national, and international film festivals. Small roles in Hollywood films and television productions soon followed. He was offered his first major role in an independent feature film less than one year after his return to the screen and stage. Nick has lived in the city of Philadelphia since 2005, and works there as an actor, architect, author, and amateur brewer.