
Greg Louganis
Acting
🎂 1960-01-29
Gregory Efthimios "Greg" Louganis (/luːˈɡeɪnɪs/; born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver, LGBT activist, and author who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics, on both the springboard and platform. He is the only male and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games. He has been called both "the greatest American diver" and "probably the greatest diver in history". Louganis had been a theatre major in college, and in the late 1980s and 1990s, Louganis acted in several in movies, including Touch Me in 1997. In 1993, he played the role of Darius in an Off-Broadway production of the play Jeffrey. In 1995, he starred for six weeks in the Off-Broadway production of Dan Butler's one-man-show about gay life, The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me, taking over from Butler himself. In the play, he portrayed 14 different characters. In 2008 he appeared in the film Watercolors, in the role of Coach Brown, a swimming instructor in a high school. In 2012, he appeared in the penultimate episode of the second season of IFC's comedy Portlandia, playing himself.
Cast credits(23)

Greg Louganis
2011

Self - Restaurant Patron
2005

Dirk Evans
2011

Dirk Evans (archive footage)
2011

Lloyd's Fiancée
2015

Zico
2017

Dan Zuma
1996

Self
1990

Self
2009

Coach Brown
2008

Max (segment "The Wet Dream")
1992

David
1997

Larry
1987

Narrator/Himself
1997

Self
2018

Self
1985

Self
1977


Self (archive footage)
2018

Himself
2014

himself
1995

Salvador Dali
2015

Self
2005