Larry Grimaldi is Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs & Original Movies at Fox Entertainment Studios, where he helps create, develop, and produce entertainment programming in the television movie, scripted series, and independent feature film space. Currently, he and his teams manage a slate of more than three dozen projects in various stages of development and production across many domestic and international networks and streaming services. Grimaldi oversees the Original Movie and Global Series creative teams for the studio and helps strategically drive content creation and co-productions in both the domestic and global markets.

In his tenure at Fox, Grimaldi has been responsible for more than 100 television and indie films made for, or released by, Netflix, Amazon, Peacock, Disney+, Disney Channel, Discovery+ (with Food Network & HGTV), Hallmark, Lifetime, BET, and OWN, to name a few. Highlights include the soon-to-be-released feature film Wind of Change, previous indie films Daughter of the Bride and Perfect Match, the Disney+ Original Movie Under Wraps, Amazon’s Christmas Is Cancelled, Netflix’s Falling Inn Love, and the YA film Swimming for Gold. Grimaldi also served as an executive producer on the E! / Peacock films Arranged Love, Royal Rendezvous, and Maybe It’s You. Series credits include The Way Home and Chicken Sisters for Hallmark.

Grimaldi was an independent producer for many years and created programming for many networks and streamers, resulting in over 200 hours of commercial, controversial, and entertaining programming. He served as a producer on Rich Kids of Beverly Hills for E! Entertainment, as well as multiple seasons of Bravo’s successful TV series: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Real Housewives of Orange County.

Grimaldi has also made documentary films, including the award-winning Camp Out, a film centring on a bible camp for gay Christian kids for MTV Networks; the O Ambassadors for Oprah Winfrey; and the indie doc film 55 Bucks, about impoverished women in Tanzania, Africa.

Besides having a great love for television and film, Grimaldi is also an avid theatregoer, self-proclaimed foodie, world traveller, and lover of all things Italian. He graduated from Villanova University and started his career working for veteran film producer Freddie Fields. Grimaldi currently lives in Los Angeles.