David Alan Grier, also known as DAG is an American actor as well as a comedian. He was born on the 30th of June, 1956 and is currently 59 years of age. He was born in Detroit, Michigan as the son of a school- teaching mother Aretas Ruth and his father William Henry Grier was a psychiatrist as well as a writer. HE studied in the local Magnet High School, and later went to University of Michigan where he warned his Bachelor’s degree. He then studied at Yale University and completed his Master’s level in 1981. He belonged to a politically active family, who along with Martin Luther King Jr, made the revolution against black people, successful. Born and raised in America, he is an American by nationality and belongs to black ethnicity.
David is a tall man, if not the tallest. He has a height of about 187 cm, which is about 6 feet and 2 inches and is nicely built. He is not very chubby nor skinny and is very conscious about his health and exercise, besides his eating and sleeping schedules. He mostly appears in short hairstyles and there aren’t much shirtless pictures of his to be found on the internet. He has however, revealed his body on a couple of occasions; and he doesn’t seem to have any tattoos in his body.
Regarding his personal life, there were rumors about him being sexually gay. But since he has been in two different relationships over the course of time, those rumors have been proved wrong. He has also been linked to be dating women like Lorry Petty and Chelsea Handler although no proofs about those affairs have come forth. He has been married, and divorced on two occasions. He first married his girlfriend Maritza Rivera in 1987, and the couple was together for 10 years before breaking up in 1997. They didn’t have any children together. Then in the July of 2007, he was married for the second time with his wife Christine Y. Kim, and had a child as well before splitting up in 2010. As of now, he is believed to be single, as no news of him dating anybody has come forward.
A renowned comedian, he is also a very successful actor and has played in many different movies. He started his acting career from theatre when he first appeared in Broadway in “The First” as Jackie Robinson. For that role, he was nominated for the Best Featured Actor in a Musical and had also won the Theatre World Award in 1981. He, along with his fellow star Denzel Washington then stared in a movie named A Soldier’s Story in 1984. Apart from movies, he has also played in some TV shows like The Living Color (1990-1994), Life with Bonnie (2002-2004) and some others. He has also been an author and wrote his book in 2006, named “Barack like Me: The Chocolate Covered Truth”. He has appeared in several TV shows and interviews.
A celebrity, he has had fans from all over the world that like and support him. He had been widely followed by millions of fans around the world on his Twitter account and Facebook page. He has recently joined Instagram where you can find many of his pictures and videos too. With rumors regarding his death widely trending, his official sites have denied such bad publicities and confirmed his safety and good health. To know more about him, you can read his biography online in sites like Wikipedia or IMDb, or also see and listen to his interviews on YouTube. By 2015, his estimated net worth was about $3 million US dollars.