Grant Piro

Grant Piro, an Australian actor, began his career in 1983 on the soap opera Sons and Daughters. After making George Miller's Bushfire Moon in 1987, he met Ray Cooney, a meeting that led to three years in Britain, where he acted in Cooney's plays It Runs in the Family and Wife Begins at Forty and on television in Casualty and Shelley. He returned to Australia in 1990 and became host of the ABC children's show Couch Potato. Television drama work followed across many years, including Blue Heelers, SeaChange, Stingers, and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. On stage he became one of Australia's most respected actors, appearing in The Producers, Hairspray, and The 39 Steps, and his work in the MTC production Realism drew critical acclaim for his biomechanics technique. His films include Bad Boy Bubby (1993), The Outsider (2002), Darkness Falls (2003), and Escape From Pretoria (2020), where he played Captain Schnepel.