Career
A native of the United Kingdom, Grainger moved to Torbay, Auckland, New Zealand in 2007, where he is active in both theatre and television productions, but continues to appear regularly on British television, as he has since launching his career. He began a West End theatre acting, dancing and singing career in 1987 at age 22 at the Prince of Wales playing "Benjamin" in a stage and road production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, directed by Michael Winter, and in 1990 playing "Lieutenant Orin" in a 1994 production of A Little Shop of Horrors at the Oldham Coliseum directed by Lindsay Dolan.
Since that time he has appeared regularly in such venues as the Hull Truck, London Palladium, King"s Head, Silo and the Auckland Company.
In 2013, he appears as "Geoff Tordoff" in a production of The Heretic with the Auckland Company. Grainger has participated in over 60 British television series and films since his career beginnings.
Among them The Bill, Rosemary and Thyme, Heartbeat, Bad Girls and EastEnders. In New Zealand he has appeared in local programmes Shortland Street, Outrageous Fortune, The Million Dollar Con Manitoba, Life"s A Riot and The Cult.
He receives recognition for a variety of world-wide television commercial appearances.
Among the feature films he has appeared in are Parting Shots (1999), In the Beginning (2000), Large (2001), Spy Game (2001), Mean Machine (2001), Kiss Maine Deadly (2008) and The Lovely Bones (2009).