page_title: Carson Grant
section_title: Returning to acting
hierarchical_section_title: Carson Grant / Career / Returning to acting
caption_attribution_description: English: Carson Grant accepting the GIAA 'Italian American Heritage Award' at the GIAA Film Festival 2007
context_page_description: Carson Ferri-Grant is an American actor and artist. Grant has created characters and stories in visual mediums as drawings, paintings, in films and on stage.
context_section_description: In 1998, Italian director Edoardo Amati asked Grant to portray his lead character in the film Master Shot.
  In 2008, Carson Ferri-Grant was elected Vice President of GIAA (Guild of Italian American Actors) and represented GIAA delegate on the 4 A's (Associated Actors and Artistes of America) meetings chaired by President Theodore Bikel.
  In 2015, Grant, Vice President of GIAA (Guild of Italian American Actors), was elected as the Vice President of the Associated Actors and Artiste of America and Artistes of America into the Department for Professional Employees, DPE, AFL-CIO.
  In 2017 Grant for his role as `Professor John Allen´ in the film One Penny won Best Actor in the Film Forum at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. 
  As a film actor, Grant has portrayed more than 400 film characters in commercial and independent films as of 2020. In 2013 performed at Symphony Space, NYC in 50 year tribute to JFK in gala event "November 21, 1963: The day before".
caption: Carson Grant accepting GIAA Italian American Heritage Award 2007
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