{"id":659908,"date":"2026-05-23T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659908\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:57:08","slug":"grizz-chapman-dies-30-rock-star-was-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659908\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizz Chapman Dies: &#8217;30 Rock&#8217; Star Was 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGrizzwald \u2018Grizz\u2019 Chapman, the fan-favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/30-rock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_30-rock\" data-tag=\"30-rock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30 Rock<\/a> star who played Grizz on the NBC sitcom for its seven-season run, has died. He was 52.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe actor\u2019s longtime rep Saideh A. Brown told TMZ that Chapman died on Friday. Other details, including a cause of death, were not immediately made available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn April 16, 1974 in Brooklyn, Chapman was known for towering at seven feet tall. He was working as a bouncer at a strip club when he met Tracy Morgan, who cast Chapman and Kevin Brown as his self-referential character Tracy Jordan\u2019s two confidants Grizz and Dot Com in 30 Rock, which ran from 2006 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to creating his own YouTube variety series Grizz Chronicles, Chapman appeared in episodes of Blue Bloods, The Blacklist and The Good Fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChapman previously struggled with kidney disease and was a spokesperson for the National Kidney Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grizzwald \u2018Grizz\u2019 Chapman, the fan-favorite 30 Rock star who played Grizz on the NBC sitcom for its seven-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[249150,88,284127],"class_list":["post-659908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-30-rock","tag-entertainment","tag-grizz-chapman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}