Parker Grimes was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to parents Laurie and Christopher, a claims adjuster and a carpenter, respectfully, Growing up in rural Wisconsin, he played baseball, football, powerlifted, competed in track and field, Tae Kwan Do, and thoroughly enjoyed the outdoors. He excelled at school graduating as the the salutatorian at Horace Mann High School, as well as being inducted into its hall of fame. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a Microbiology major with an emphasis in Global Health. It was his aspiration to attend Medical School until he took his first theater class as an elective and fell in love with acting. Upon graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and studied under Alex Taylor, an accredited Meisner Technique instructor and David Rountree, a director and owner of LA Acting Studios, Los Angeles' top on-camera acting school. Parker is a well rounded person who has training in firearms, martial arts, fitness education, football, baseball, horseback riding, coaching and child mentoring, clinical research experience and an ability to speak very badly broken Spanish. Overall, he is known for being a resolute young man who is always the dark-horse, but never a disappointment.