Background
Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University.
Grant was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and is an alumna of East Carolina University.
East Carolina University.
She is currently a series regular on the television comedy The Mindy Project portraying the role of Beverly Janoszewski. She is known for her recurring role Gracie Leigh in the Columbia Broadcasting System post-apocalyptic drama Jericho. She has appeared in the films Number Country for Old Men, Speed, Donnie Darko, The Artist, Child"s Play 2, Rain Manitoba, Flatliners, Little Mission Sunshine, Sordid Lives, Dear Lemon Lima and Bad Words.
She has appeared in dozens of films, including three Oscar Best Pictures: Rain Manitoba
Speed; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Love Field; Donnie Darko.
A Time to Kill. Little Mission Sunshine.
Child"s Play 2; Daltry Calhoun. City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly"s Gold.
Don"t Tell Her lieutenant"s Maine. Matchstick Men; Factory Girl.
The Wizard; Sordid Lives.
The Rookie. All About Steve. Number Country for Old Men, Extract, Crazy Heart, Rango, and Hollywood to Dollywood (as herself). Grant played the same character, Marianne Marie Beetle, in the short-lived show Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both created by Bryan Fuller, and portrays the similarly named "Marie" in Mockingbird Lane, Fuller"s re-imagining of The Munsters.
Grant guest starred as Gillian, Brady Kelly"s mother, in the third season of the acclaimed sitcom Husbands.
Inspired by Mindy Kaling, Grant is also in the process of writing a Broadway musical, set in 1969 Greenwich Village.