Biography
Christopher Scott Grimaldi grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received the Edgar Bronfman Scholarship and the Helena Rubinstein Foundation Award. He also produced, wrote, and directed numerous short films which have been shown at various film festivals and on television.
He is a recipient of the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Screenwriter Fellowship for his screenplay Aluminum Man, which was also a semifinalist in both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship and Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope competition. In addition, his screenplay Continental Drift was a quarter-finalist in HBO's Project Greenlight competition.
Christopher adapted Continental Drift into a novel that was a semifinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and was called a "Well done, contemporary piece. Honest and a little raw with some realistic awkwardness," by the Amazon Top Reviewer. In addition, Publishers Weekly said the protagonist possesses a "wonderful quirkiness," that "His fellow travelers are all engaging, and the conversations ring true."
His second novel Adult World has been called, "edgy, challenging and insightful," as well as "funny, dark, and not for the faint-hearted," by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry. It is now available from Pelorus Press.
He has worked extensively as an actor, TV host, model, spokesperson, and voice-over artist, appearing in numerous feature films, as well as been the face for over a hundred national and international commercial campaigns, appearing in print, in person, or on the small screen for clients such as NBC, Microsoft, Comcast, and Visa, to name a few. Episodes of Awesome Adventures, the nationally syndicated adventure travel show he hosted, can still be viewed on many local channels.
