Actress | Filmmaker | TV Host & Correspondent | TV Producer | Print Model | Voice Over Artist
Native New Yorker Lucia Grillo works in film, television, theater, commercial print, and voiceover.
As an actress, notable screen credits include Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam opposite Mira Sorvino and John Leguizamo, Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, her own award-winning A pena do pana (The Cost of Bread), opposite Vincent Schiavelli (Ghost, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus), and Spike Lee’s irreverent Finlandia Vodka commercial. Lucia guest starred on Comedy Central and MTV Italy’s Untraditional opposite Italian star and series creator, Fabio Volo, which aired on Italy’s popular Nove Channel; and in a lead role in the award-winning American drama series, Switch, with Academy Award Winner, Olympia Dukakis. She appeared as a feminist reporter on HBO’s The Undoing opposite Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, and had the pleasure of improvising scenes in Italian with director Derek Cianfrance for his series, I Know This Much is True.
Recent theater credits include the World Premiere of Luigi Pirandello's comedy, The Twelve Letters, which she also produced and adapted for the stage, and Dino Buzzati’s “The Clock” - both at the Cherry Lane Theater.
A narrative and documentary filmmaker with her Calabrisella Films banner, Lucia's works have won awards and been Official Selections of festivals such as Cannes Film Festival SFC and AFI, among innumerable international fests. They have aired on international, national, and public, television, and are taught at the university level across disciplines.
Lucia creates music videos that range from Italian pop to Brooklyn doom and have premiered on the likes of Spin Magazine online.
She works as an international print model and voiceover artist in English, Italian, French, and Spanish.
As a TV producer and on-camera correspondent for over a decade, Lucia has covered events and interviews that span celebrities, red carpet, film, arts, fashion, music, politics, science, sports, cuisine and more. She currently produces and hosts Lucia’s Vegan Lifestyle, the only 100% all-around vegan lifestyle show to air on television. Watch it on MNN! With LVL Media, she creates promotional films for vegan brands.
Lucia has taught acting at the University of Malta, Rome, for LAMBDA/LINK Bachelor of Arts Degree program and various courses/seminars on cinema & acting, in the U.S. and Italy.
She received her BFA in Acting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, having begun her professional training at age fifteen at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute NYC.
True to the Calabrisella Films name and mission, Lucia is developing narrative film & television projects that take place primarily between New York and Calabria, Italy.