Garret Dillahunt

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Television Actor · Born Nov 24, 1964 · United States Of America · Male

Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) 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 and Francis Wolcott 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 starred in the Amazon Studios drama Hand of God and is currently appearing in The Mindy Project and The Guest Book. 2Early 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. 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. 2Acting 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 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