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Clark Gregg Biography

Robert Clark Gregg (born April 2, 1962) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He is best known for the role of Agent Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He has appeared in Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), and the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., being the actor with the longest screen time in the MCU, he will also appear as the character in Captain Marvel (2019). He also voices the character on the animated television series Ultimate Spider-Man and in the video games Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Lego Marvel Avengers, and Marvel Heroes.

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I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

New York, Writing, College, Begun, Eight

I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.

Envelopes, Felt, People, Safe

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

Easy, Eye, Pleasure, Showing Up, Smulders, Work

It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.

People, Start, Voice, Years

The tremendous Jeremy Latcham from Marvel showed up with this one-of-a-kind animated encyclopedia about S. H. I. E. L. D. and The Avengers. Coulson wasn't a part of the comic books, which is a singular thing about him that I thought would get me killed off very quickly, but luckily, it didn't. It just became a thing that I fit into, and they kept finding new and better uses for me.

Book, Comic, Kind, Showed, Thing, Use

I'd be just another Marvel fan, only with a little bit bigger smile, when I would get the script and be like, "Oh, my gosh, Agent Coulson knows that?

Agents, Coulson, Fan, Fans, Littles, Smile

There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave.

Actors, Dave, Directors, Love Is, Movie, Tremendous

There was a day on the set of Iron Man where I said, "I remember some of this stuff. I definitely had some Iron Man books. But, S. H. I. E. L. D. is a little bit of a weak spot for me. "

Book, Day, Iron, Men, Said, Stuff

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

Conflict, People, Stress, Under

The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.

Bar, Character, Promise, Thoroughly, Together

But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about. . . if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.

Believe, Book, Material, Set, Transform, Trying

No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

Book, Dream, Movie, Narrating, Reading, Watching

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

Actors, Sometimes, Stills, Shakespeare, Actor

With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.

Action, Character, Characters, Exciting, Real, Team

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

Character, Characters, Grief, Scolding, Sometimes

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover. ' I joined that production and was hooked.

College, Drama, Football, Player, Walking

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.

Dave, Directing, Directors, Happier, Movie Director, Seen

Speaking as Coulson, it's unclear. I feel like that are other formidable S. H. I. E. L. D. elements and they don't have Coulson's connection to some of these people. I think what I like about what seems to be going on is there are differing opinions about who's where on the hierarchy and I think that's some of what goes on in the movie.

Connections, Elements, Hierarchy, People, Think, Thinking

You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of the other ones - it wasn't always the case that you had people the caliber of Jeff Bridges or Robert Downey, so to kind of show up and work with Jeremy Renner or Robert or with Mark Ruffalo, any of them, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, the caliber of people you're acting with, to me, is really fun. From the first day I started doing scenes with Robert, it's been one of the funnest experiences I've ever had.

Bridges, Fun, Jeff, Mark, People, Scenes

To go from Jon Favreau for Iron Man 1 and 2 to Kenneth Branagh for Thor and the very different world of Thor, it's about how to adapt to Coulson in a different setting and a different world while, at the same time, still have him be a part of the same world.

Different, Iron, Man, Men, Setting, World

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