Demetrius Grosse is an American actor and producer. Born February 26, in Washington, Grosse is best known for his role as Rock in the feature film Straight Outta Compton, Emmett Yawners in the Cinemax television series Banshee Errol in the FX television series Justified, and Baron Samedi in NBC's Heroes.

Biography

Born and raised in Washington, Demetrius began from a young age honing his performance skills at the age of 10-years-old. Spending time at the Summer Musical Theater Workshop, Demetrius was able to practice his skills, in singing, acting, and dance. As a child actor he honed his craft on the stage starring in more than five plays with SMTW. Through training and performance, acting, singing, and dance were all elements of performance that were developed early on as Demetrius began to build his repertoire. By 17 Grosse pursued his dreams of acting and studied at Gonzaga College High School. Demetrius then went on and achieved an award for the Andrew Carnegie Undergraduate Grant for artistic merit and later graduated from the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University with a degree from their School of Drama.
In 2002, Demetrius completed a visiting student program in which he finished two semesters of intensive study at the Howard University College of Fine Arts in his home of Washington DC. During July, Demetrius took his craft to the international arena, studying and performing both classical and contemporary drama with the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. In the summer of 2007, Demetrius joined Shakespeare Santa Monica. He had performed on the stages of Oxford, England with the BADA group, in Washington DC with The Shakespeare Theatre, and in Cape Town, South Africa with UCT.