Oliver "Power" Grant
Biography
​Oliver "Power" Grant is an American entrepreneur, producer, and actor. He is credited as creating the hip hop group, Wu-Tang Clan. As Executive Producer of all Wu-Tang Clan albums solo and collective, Power helped brand “Wu-Tang” and the Wu-Tang brand Wu-Tang clothing company. He is the original founder and CEO of Wu Wear clothing and stores. Grant produced, developed and released Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style, the PlayStation video game with Activision in 1999. Grant had roles in such motion pictures as the character "Knowledge" in the urban film Belly, directed by Hype Williams, which grossed over $9.7 million domestically before hitting DVD and TV. In addition, he played the role of "Rich Bower" in writer/director James Toback’s Black and White, which also starred Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Brooke Shields, Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and several others. He was also a producer and music supervisor of the film. He would team up again with Toback as actor and composer for When Will I Be Loved, starring Neve Campbell. He also had the leading role and was a producer on the feature film Coalition. He has a co-starring role in talk show host and former nationally syndicated shock jock Wendy Williams’ life story Queen of Media as her husband Big Kev. Grant has negotiated several deals for products ranging from music to clothing endorsements. He recently acted as executive producer on the Wu-Tang Clan’s reunion album 8 Diagrams.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • as Knowledge
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?
Movie - 1999, 2h 15m • as Rich Bower
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Rameesh
Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, lies in a trunk in her living room.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Self
In August, 2021, the Wu-Tang Clan, backed by the 60-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra, performed at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater. Roughly 10,000 fans witnessed one of the most extraordinary concerts in Hip-Hop music history. Welcome to A Wu-Tang Experience.