Joel Grey Biography

Fast Facts

• Performed at an early age with his father before being noticed by performer Eddie Cantor, who booked him onto the TV show Colgate Comedy Hour in the early 1950s
• Made feature-film debut in the 1952 musical comedy About Face
• Originated the role of the Master of Ceremonies in the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret, for which he won a Supporting Actor Tony Award
• He later won an Academy Award for the same role in the 1972 film version
• Won acclaim playing the husband of an accused murderess and singing "Mister Cellophane" in the 1996 revival of Chicago
• Played the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the 2003 original Broadway cast version of Wicked
• In 2005, portrayed the Ron Rifkin-lookalike Another Mr
• Sloane in a story arc on the TV spy series Alias
• Followed up his 2003 visual memoir Pictures I Had to Take with 2009's 1
• 3: Images from My Phone, a book of photographs taken with his mobile phone