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Collins at the premiere of Goodbye Promise in 2012
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Born | Gregor Grant Collins Mountain View, California, United States |
Occupation | Actor, Writer, Producer |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Florida State University (BA) |
Years active | 2000–present |
Gregor Collins (born August 22, 1976) is an American writer, actor, producer, and Companion (caregiving), best known for playing Matt in the Underground film Goodbye Promise, and for writing the memoir The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann. He lives and works in New York.
Gregor was born in Mountain View, California. He spent his childhood and adolescent years in the Washington, D.C. area and attended Centreville High School in Northern Virginia, where he was the top-seeded player on his school golf team. Collins subsequently received a golf grant to Ohio Wesleyan University, played for a semester, then transferred to Miami University for two more semesters before taking a year off to work as a production assistant for the television series World Business Review with Caspar Weinberger. He completed his undergraduate studies at Florida State University, where he majored in Media Production.
Collins moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue a career in entertainment. He worked his way into producing various reality television shows such as Blind Date, The Mole season 4, and E!. In 2004 he began to pursue professional acting, eventually performing on stage, in television and in independent films, landing lead roles in the indie feature Night Before the Wedding and the improvised feature Goodbye Promise.
In October 2014 Collins moved to the Murray Hill, Manhattan section of New York, living with and serving as Companion (caregiving) to Austrian Painter Ruth Rogers-Altmann while he prepared a stage production of his book The Accidental Caregiver, about Rogers-Altmann's cousin Maria Altmann.