Grizzwald "Grizz" Chapman is an American

United States

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 television actor best known for his recurring role as Grizz on the NBC

NBC

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 series 30 Rock

30 Rock

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. A June 2007 interview with rollingout.com lists Chapman's height as 6'10". In his commentary for the episode "Tracy Does Conan," Tracy Morgan

Tracy Morgan

Tracy Morgan is an American comedian who is best known for his eight seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and currently known for playing the role of Tracy Jordan on the NBC series 30 Rock.-Early life:...

 revealed that they met when Chapman was working as a bouncer at a strip club. Chapman and fellow actor Kevin Brown

Kevin Brown (actor)

Kevin 'Dot Com' Brown is an American comedian, film and television actor, best known for his role on the series 30 Rock as "Dot Com".Brown also appeared as the lead in Marq Overton's one-man play Die Laughing in 2008 at the Diversity Players of Harlem and as an actor and executive producer of the...

 were featured in season six on an episode of Hidden Potential

Hidden Potential

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Chapman received a kidney

Kidney

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 transplant in July 2010. The actor suffers from severe hypertension

Hypertension

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 and had been undergoing dialysis

Dialysis

In medicine, dialysis is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is primarily used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failure...

 treatments prior to the transplant. Due to his battle with his kidney disease, on March 31, 2010, Chapman signed on to be a spokesperson for the National Kidney Foundation

National Kidney Foundation

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