Garret Dillahunt

Garret Dillahunt
Dillahunt at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, July 2015
Born	Garret L. Dillahunt (1964-11-24) November 24, 1964 Castro Valley, California, United States
Alma mater	University of Washington Tisch School of the Arts
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present
Spouse(s)	Michelle Hurd
Website	www.garret-dillahunt.net

Garret L. Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964)^[1] is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television for the roles of Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, Ty Walker in the sixth season of Justified, a terminator in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Matthew Ross in The 4400, Jack McCall in Deadwood, and Steve Curtis in ER.

In film, Dillahunt has played many major supporting roles in the famous films The Believer, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Last House on the Left, Winter's Bone, Looper, and 12 Years a Slave.

He is currently starring in The Mindy Project and the Amazon Studios drama Hand of God.

Early life

Dillahunt was born in Castro Valley, California, and grew up in Selah, Washington. He has two brothers, Brett and Eric; Eric died in 1981 in Yakima, Washington, as the result of a drunk driving accident.^[2] Garret graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in journalism and received his M.F.A. in acting from New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.^[3]

Acting career

After spending years on and off Broadway,^[4] Dillahunt began pursuing television and film roles. He appeared as a regular in several short lived series on ABC and Showtime, and landed guest spots on TV shows such as The X Files and NYPD Blue^[5] among others, before playing two distinctly different characters on the HBO series Deadwood: Jack McCall in 2004 and Francis Wolcott in 2005. He later had a recurring role on USA Network's The 4400.

Dillahunt portrayed Steve Curtis for three seasons on ER (2005–06). Later roles included Dr. Michael Smith on HBO's John From Cincinnati; Cromartie and John Henry on FOX's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Roman Nevikov, a Russian gangster, on NBC's Life; and Mason Turner, a paralyzed serial killer on Criminal Minds. He played Simon Escher in the Burn Notice third-season finale airing March 4, 2010 on USA, later reprising the role in the show's fourth and seventh seasons.

Dillahunt appeared in such films as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country For Old Men, The Road,^[6] Winter's Bone, The Last House On The Left, TalhotBlonde, and the indie horror film, Burning Bright.^[7]

From 2010 to 2014, Dillahunt co-starred as Burt Chance on the Fox comedy Raising Hope. He began a recurring role on The Mindy Project in 2015.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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