Garret Dillahunt

Garret Dillahunt
Dillahunt at the 2018 WonderCon
Born	(1964-11-24) November 24, 1964 (age 56) Castro Valley, California, U.S.
Education	University of Washington (BA) New York University (MFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present
Spouse(s)	Michelle Hurd ​ (m. 2007)​
Website	www.garret-dillahunt.net

Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964)^[1] is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television for the roles of Simon Escher on Burn Notice, Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2012, Ty Walker in the sixth season of Justified, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, Matthew Ross in The 4400, a terminator named Cromartie in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009), Steve Curtis in ER, Dr. Jody Kimball-Kinney on The Mindy Project, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2021).

In film, Dillahunt has played many major supporting roles in the films No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Winter's Bone, Looper, and 12 Years a Slave. He also starred in the Amazon Studios drama Hand of God.

Early life and education[]

Dillahunt was born in Castro Valley, California, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. He was born into a family of three boys, with two brothers: Brett and Eric; Eric died in 1981 in Yakima after the car he was travelling in as a passenger, whose driver was drunk and speeding at the time, veered off the road.^[2]

Dillahunt graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in journalism and from New York University's Graduate Acting Program with an M.F.A. in acting.

Career[]

After spending years on and off Broadway, 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^[3] among others, before playing two distinctly different characters on the HBO series Deadwood: Jack McCall in 2004 and Francis Wolcott in 2005 (Dillahunt returned in an uncredited role as a townsman in the 2019 Deadwood movie).^[4] 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, John Henry and George Laszlo 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,^[5] Winter's Bone, The Last House On The Left, TalhotBlonde, and the indie horror film, Burning Bright.^[6]

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 and on The Guest Book in 2017.

Dillahunt starred in the 2018 action film Braven directed by Lin Oeding. Dillahunt played Kassen, the leader of a group of mercenaries and drug runners who retrieve the drug stash and plan to kill Joe Braven and his family. He joined the regular cast of the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead as John Dorie.^[7]

Personal life[]

In 2007, Dillahunt married actress Michelle Hurd.^[8]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

References[]

External links[]

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• Garret Dillahunt at the Internet Broadway Database