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Grant Show is an actor who starred on Melrose Place as Jake Hanson from 1992
to 1997. He was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 27, 1962. Raised in
California, Show broke into show business almost immediately after high
school and his first major was as "Rick Hyde" on the television series
Ryan's Hope from 1984-1987.
Show dated a fellow Ryan's Hope actor, the beautiful Yasmine Bleeth. Hyped
as the series' leading heartthrob, Show even had a pinup poster issued
during the series' run but he was disatisfied with acting in soaps and went
to London to study acting in order to improve his skills.
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Returning to the states in the late 1980's, he landed occasional prime time
acting gigs but feature films proved elusive, although the producers of
Thelma and Louise seriously considered him for the role that launched Brad
Pitt into film stardom.
Show's appearances on television attracted the attention of producer Aaron
Spelling who felt he had star potential and decided to cast him as Jake
Hanson on a few episodes of the popular series Beverly Hills 90210 in order
to spin off the character as the lead in his next series Melrose Place.
Debuting with much fanfare (Show was on the covers of both TV Guide and
People immediately after the series' debut), the series' ratings in its
first season were not up to expectations yet the show evolved in its second
season from a fairly straight drama to a over-the-top soap opera serial in
the Dynasty tradition. Hyped as a Generation X soap, Melrose was actually a
saga for the last of the Baby Boomers and their final grasp on youth. The
program also switched from being a program with Show as the unofficial star
to an ensemble cast although he remained the most promenient of the male
cast though the show created the most water cooler buzz for its female leads,
notably Heather Locklear, Marcia Cross, and Laura Leighton, the latter of
whom was briefly Show's offscreen love interest.
Show, Cross, Leighton, Doug Savant, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Josie Bissett
left the cast of the series in 1997 in a mysterious move that rather swiftly
lead the show into a major decline. Since the series' end he has starred in
a number of television movies, acted in stage productions of several plays
including The Glass Menagerie and was the lead in the short-lived Fox
Network supernatural drama Point Pleasant in 2005.
Long a bachelor, Show married plus-sized model Pollyanna MacIntosh, whom he
met when they posed together for a Lane Bryant ad in 2003. He is 5'8" or
5'10" tall (depending on the source), and enjoys golf and motorcycling. |
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