Career
Grunberg has had guest roles in television starting 1990. From 1998-2002 he appeared as Sean Blumberg on Felicity. He appeared from 2001-2006 as Eric Weiss on Alias. He left that series as a regular to star on the NBC sitcom, Grand Union. Since 2003, Abrams had planned a series called The Catch about a bounty hunter, starring Grunberg in the lead role. Suggested for both the 2004–2005 and 2005–2006 seasons, the series was never produced; however, a pilot episode was shot. Abrams also cast Grunberg in a brief role as the pilot for the 2004 series Lost. Grunberg returned for the first-season finale, but his scenes were cut for time, and were instead included on the season 1 DVD set. He also appeared in a small role in Mission: Impossible III, which Abrams directed.
Grunberg had a major role in the NBC TV show Heroes. He plays police officer Matt Parkman, who has the power of telepathy. Grunberg has also guest starred on House. He was offered a part in Star Trek, which Abrams directed, but was unable to take it because of a conflict with another project he is working on (he did, however, provide the voice for Kirk's stepfather in the opening sequence). Grunberg voices FBI agent Ethan Thomas in the video game Condemned: Criminal Origins.
Outside of acting, Grunberg is known as one of the creators of the popular Yowza!! Android and iPhone application, a GPS-aware coupon-referring program.
He also voices Ant-Man in the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show.
Grunberg was featured on the May/June 2009 cover of Making Music Magazine.
On May 17, 2010, Grunberg announced via Twitter that he would be joining the cast of Love Bites.
He had a role in the 2011 game L.A. Noire in which he provided both voice and facial motion capture.
On November 7, 2011, he appeared as a guest star on an episode of the TV series Hawaii Five-0 with former Heroes co-star Masi Oka.
Will appear as a special guest star in the March 14, 2012 episode of the TV series Psych along with Wayne Brady and Mike "The Miz" Mizanin.
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