However, due to his role in Spider-Man 3, he had to abandon these plans. I think that people will know that I was faking it in those movies', he told Flaunt magazine in 2007. I never thought for a second that people were really going to think that's what I was like. 'The joke is that you're supposed to play the worst version of yourself and I don't think too many people are comfortable with that. Grace played a prep school student who used marijuana and introduced his girlfriend to freebasing in director Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film Traffic, as well as having uncredited cameos as himself in Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and its 2004 sequel, Ocean's Twelve. Grace made a brief guest appearance in the final episode. His character was written out and replaced with a new character named Randy Pearson ( Josh Meyers). He played the role until the show's 8th and final season. Grace was cast as Eric Forman on Fox's That '70s Show, which debuted in 1998. Grace grew up in Darien, Connecticut, where actress Kate Bosworth was a middle-school friend, and actress Chloë Sevigny-who later appeared with him in high school stage plays-was sometimes his babysitter.
His paternal grandmother was from a German-Jewish family, whereas his mother is of Irish descent. Grace was born in New York City, the son of Pat, an assistant to the schoolmaster of the New Canaan Country School, and John Grace, a Madison Avenue executive.
