Born on January 24, 1983, Frank James Michael Grande Marchione is an American actor, singer, producer, dancer, TV host, and YouTuber.Ariana Grande Brother? He portrayed Franz in the Broadway versions of Mamma Mia! (2007–2010) and Rock of Ages (2014–2015). He has also taken part in off-Broadway roles in regional theater companies and gone on tour.
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In addition to creating and performing cabaret acts, including his own one-man show, Grande has produced Broadway productions.
He started a YouTube channel in 2012 and has amassed a Twitter and Instagram following. He participated in the American reality television series Big Brother 16 in 2014 and Big Brother Reindeer Games in 2023.
In the 2015 season of America’s Best Dancing Crew, Grande served as a judge. He co-hosted Style Code Live, a weeknight live fashion and shopping show on Amazon, from 2016 to 2017.
He left the show in the middle of 2016
to compete in the UK reality series Celebrity Big Brother 18. In addition to working for BuildOn, he co-founded the nonprofit arts organization “
Broadway in South Africa” as part of his charitable endeavors. Early years: Victor Marchione, a doctor, and Joan Grande, the chief executive officer of Hose-McCann Communications, a provider of telephone
and alarm systems, welcomed Frankie Grande into the world. He was born in New York City. Raised in Englewood, New Jersey, he and his mother relocated to Boca Raton, Florida,
when he was ten years old. He earned his degree in 2005 from Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, where he double majored in dance, theater, and biology.
Though he thought about going to medical school, he ultimately chose to study theater for a year.
In addition to playing the main role in George M!, Mike Costa in A Chorus Line, and Lewis in Pippin, he started his professional performance career in 2007
as Boots the Monkey in the national tour of Dora the Explorer Live! (Dora’s Pirate Adventure).
Later in 2007, he became an ensemble member
and Eddie’s understudy in the Broadway production of Mamma Mia!, a role he played for three years.
Broadway and off Broadway, Grande has produced productions. In 2011, he staged a one-woman cabaret show with Brooke Shields.
In New York City, Grande has appeared in cabaret shows at venues like 54 Below and the Birdland Jazz Club.
At the “Mr. Broadway 2007” charity fundraiser, Grande was crowned “Mr. Broadway”.
She played Bobby in the summer theater version of Crazy for You in 2013. She also made an appearance at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York, where she presented her own show, Livin’ la Vida Grande.
From 2014 to 2016 Grande performed as Consuela in the Off-Broadway production of the musical Pageant in February 2014. That June, she had a performance at DigiFest NYC.
Grande made an appearance in the American reality television series Big Brother 16 in the middle of 2014. Her 12-week stint on the program was dubbed “controversial…
filled with some powerful, outrageous, and extremely impactful moments” by MTV. Grande placed fifth among the 16 competitors.
In November 2014, Grande made a two-month comeback
to Broadway as Franz in the musical Rock of Ages.
She sang “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” during her appearance on Good Day New York.
She co-hosted the American Music Awards red carpet pre-show in the same month. TV Guide referred to Grande as one of “our favorite YouTube stars” in 2014.
She was included in an ABC Nightline piece from 2014 regarding performers that use social media to increase their visibility.
“Fiercely ambitious” is how Michael Musto described Grande in a 2014 New York Times article. She was described as “unabashedly enthusiastic about life” by another reporter.
Grande was listed as one of “The Top 32 Social Media Stars on the Internet Today” by Billboard in 2015.
Grande returned to 54 Below in January 2015 to present her one-man cabaret show.
She posed for Malan Breton during New York Fashion Week in February and had an appearance in a music video for Lance Bass.
Grande participated in an interview with Entertainment Tonight during the 2015 Kids’ Choice Awards in March.
Additionally, he starred in the short documentary “Malan Breton: A Journey to Taiwan,” which took home the “Best Short Documentary” prize at the 2015 New York City International Film Festival.
He made an appearance at DigiFest NYC in June and the following month he judged the #Joyshine video competition.
On MTV’s 2015 reality TV program America’s
Best Dance Crew All-Stars: Road to the VMAs, Grande served as a judge.
Worst.Post.Ever: A TV Special on Oxygen, which he hosted in August 2015 discussing awkward social media posts with Frankie Grande.
He appeared as a guest on Big Brother 17 the next month. In 2015, he once more co-hosted the American Music Awards red carpet pre-show.
He also frequently participated in his sister’s The Honeymoon Tour throughout the year.Grande received a People’s Choice Award nomination in 2016.
In January 2016, Grande brought his autobiographical one-man show, Livin’ La Vida Grande, back to Los Angeles.
He and his sister debuted “Frankie by Ariana Great,” a unisex fragrance, in the same month.
Style Code Live (SCL), a live program on Amazon.com that features news and advice on fashion and beauty as well as celebrity trends, was co-hosted by Grande starting in March 2016.
Watchers can connect with the show by shopping for the products covered and asking questions. Every weeknight, it streams live.
The Washington Post described the program
as “something of a mash-up between QVC and E! News” in one of its reviews. episode of Logo TV’s Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul, he also served as a guest panelist.
Grande participated in the UK reality TV series Celebrity Big Brother 18 in July and August, placing sixth overall.
He returned to co-hosting SCL full-time in September 2016 after taping a piece on fashion in the Celebrity Big Brother house for SCL.Grande hosted SCL until May of 2017.
From 2017 to the present
He and Olivia Culpo discussed their opinions of the 2017 Golden Globes dresses on The Today Show.
In February 2017, Grande walked the Madison Square Garden runway for Breton and Propaganda by Richie Rich during New York Fashion Week.
He released the song “Queen” in May 2017 along with a music video that discussed how glam rock legends from the 1970s inspired him.In June, he released YouCam Make-up, an app collaboration that is related to the song.
For the week of July 15, 2017, “Queen” was placed number 35 on the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks chart.
In Grande participated on the CBS TV game show Candy Crush in July. He starred in the Vimeo online series Indoor Boys the following month, for which he received a nomination for a 2018 Indie Series Award for Best Actor
In September 2017, he made a guest appearance as Frankini in a two-part episode of Nickelodeon’s sitcom Henry Danger, Season 3, “Live & Dangerous”.
A fictionalized version of Grande made an appearance in the Haters Back Off season 2 finale on Netflix in October 2017.He made an appearance on Fuse TV’s Trivial Takedown in December.
He performed and hosted the red carpet at the Make-Up Artists and Hairstylists Guild Awards in Los Angeles the following month.
In March 2018, Grande—who had previously played Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show—joined the cast of Cruel Intentions: The Musical at (Le) Poisson Rouge, an off-Broadway production.
In addition to guest-starring on RuPaul’s Drag Race, Grande played Frankini once again in the “
Captain Man-kini” episode of Henry Danger’s fourth season in May 2018. He made a second guest appearance on Indoor Boys in July
In a July 2018 Muhlenberg production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, he played the role of Finch.
A reader commented: “His Finch is utterly charming and has an adorable innocence that belies the he employs manipulative techniques to get ahead.”
He performed as Captain Victor Garber in Titanique: In Conceret, a spoof jukebox musical based on Céline Dion’s songs, in New York City in August.
Later in the year, he made another appearance in the return engagement of the play.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he proceeded to perform as Titanique at pop-up concerts in Los Angeles and New York. On May 2, 2021, a live version of the show was broadcast on the streaming platform Stellar.
Additionally, Grande kept doing his one-man show in nightclubs. In July 2019, he made a comeback as Frankini in the musical episode “Henry Danger: The Musical,”
when he curses Swellview and makes everyone sing instead of spoken.In late 2019, he returned to the role of Franz in a Rock of Ages production in Los Angeles.
Grande portrayed Richard in the 2020 movie Spree. He starred in the “Undone” Macy Gray music video from 2021.and appeared in a number of Danger Force episodes between 2020 and 2022 as Frankini.
He has been hosting the Nickelodeon podcast SpongeBob BingePants since 2021 alongside Hector Navarro.
Grande played Frankini again in a crossover episode of Side Hustle in April 2022.
From June to September, he played Victor Garber again in Titanique, an off-Broadway production at The Asylum Theatre.
Grande came back to Big Brother in 2023 to take part in the Big Brother Reindeer Games, the holiday spin-off season. He made it to the final and came in third.
More than 400,000 YouTube subscribers, 30 million views, and more than 2 million Instagram followers were among Grande’s social media following as of 2023.
Charity
Before the nonprofit company merged with buildOn, Grande co-founded the non-profit arts organization “Broadway in South Africa” in 2007
and spent seven years traveling to the country to instruct underprivileged youngsters in performance arts.
In 2014, buildOn awarded Grande its Global Impact Award in recognition of his work building a school in a remote hamlet
in Malawi, a country in southeast Africa, which he had assisted with in 2013.Grande is an opponent of smoking.
Grande gave buildOn the money he received from the “Team America” twist on Big Brother 16 in order to construct another school in Africa.
He went back to Malawi in January 2015 to assist with the start of the school’s construction, which was given his grandfather’s name.
Grande eventually generated more money than his target of $70,000 for buildOn, the organization that finances the school.
Grande took part in the annual Broadway Bares show, which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and the 2steps2minutes public service announcement on fire prevention in 2016.
Grande was the featured performer at the yearly “Broadway Sings for Pride” benefit concert held at The Cutting Room in New York in June 2018.
Additionally, he actively participates in AIDS/LifeCycle, a yearly fundraising event for HIV/AIDS. In 2018, he raised more than $38,000. In June 2019, Grande took part in the tournament as well.
Individual life
After dating Hale Leon since 2019, Grande wed him on May 4, 2022.He became an Italian citizen in 2023.
Filmography Movies Title Role Notes Year of Release 2015 Malan Breton: His Own Journey to Taiwan Documentary 2020 Richard Spree 2023 Calling Role Notes for Sylvia Nico on Television:
Year Title The Real Housewives of Miami – Guest Big Brother 16 Himself – Houseguest Season 3, Episode 12 (2014) Rank five out of sixteen.
2014 Grammy Awards for American Music
2015 ET interviewer; 2015 Kids’ Choice Awards himself
August 17, 2015, Good Morning America Himself – Guest Episode
2015 Worst.Post. Ever: Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dancing Crew Himself, Judge Frankie Grande (Oxygen)
with Self-Host the 2015 American Music Awards From 2016 to 2017 Style Code Live: Co-host every day shows
2016 Housemate of Celebrity Big Brother 18 (UK) Himself Rank six out of fifteen.
From 2016 to 2017 Gay for RuPaul’s Own Play Game Show – Panelist Guest Star
2017 Guest star Candy Crush Himself, a competitor
From 2017 to 2019 Henry Danger Frankini Four episodes with a guest star[ 2017 Guest star, “Haters Back Off Himself,”
in Season 2, Episode 8 (2018–23). RuPaul’s Drag Race – Season 10, Episode 10, and Season 15, Episode 10 Guest Star
2018 Kid Danger Frankini’s Adventures (voice) “Magical Beefery Tour” is the episode.
2019 E! A Real Hollywood Tale About Him “Is Fame an Addiction?” is the episode.
Six episodes of Danger Force Frankini in 2020–2022
In the 2020 episode of Unfiltered Himself, “Burgers in Your Laundry!”
“When Worlds Collide” is the 2022 episode of Side Hustle Frankini.
2023: Three guest appearances on Big Brother 25 Himself
The houseguest that played Big Brother Reindeer in 2023 came in third place out of nine.
