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by Gregor Collins (Author)
The Accidental Caregiver: Part II will be released in Spring 2020!
The life story of Maria Altmann inspired the 2015 film "Woman in Gold" starring Helen Mirren.When thirty-two-year-old actor Gregor Collins reluctantly interviewed for a job as a caregiver more out of a favor to a friend - he had no idea his life was about to change forever.
Seconds into a chance meeting in 2008 with, it would turn out, a world-renowned Holocaust refugee named Maria Altmann, there was an unexplainable magic in the air - it felt as if they had already met. And Collins was suddenly thrown into a situation with which he had never before been confronted: caring for someone other than himself.
Gregor offers us a personal and unprecedented look at Maria over the three intimate years he cared for her - her thrilling escape from the Nazis, her fight and subsequent win in the landmark Supreme Court Case to return original Gustav Klimt artwork that belonged to her family in Austria, and the extraordinary people she met along the way. But the real heart of the story transcends mere historical fact.
Through a refreshingly raw portrayal of their unlikely and unbreakable bond, imbued with humorous, candid anecdotes about his mercurial relationship with Hollywood, Gregor takes us on a deeply emotional journey of how he opened up his heart to a 92-year-old woman in need - and in turn experienced the love he had been searching for his entire life.
Author Biography
Gregor is an actor, author, screenwriter, and film and television producer living in Los Angeles. After graduating from Florida State University in 2000 with a BA degree in Communication, he drove to Los Angeles and began working as a production assistant for a start-up TV show called Blind Date. He has since produced an array of reality television shows and independent films, and performed critically acclaimed lead roles in the features Night Before the Wedding and Goodbye Promise. He currently writes for Cinema Editor Magazine and is in production on a film he co-wrote called A Good Day to Die starring Cloris Leachman.
