Taylor Sheridan

Taylor Sheridan (born May 21, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is known for his role as David Hale on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, and for writing several films, including the screenplay of the Denis Villeneuve-directed Sicario (2015), for which he received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplay for Hell or High Water (2016), starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, which was released in August 2016 and earned Sheridan an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote and directed Wind River, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, which was released in August 2017. He is the brother of journalist John Gibler. 2Career Sheridan started his career in acting, appearing in small films and in recurring roles in TV shows such as Veronica Mars, Walker, Texas Ranger and most notably, as David Hale in Sons of Anarchy. Sheridan made the transition into screenwriting after he turned 40. His first feature was the Denis Villeneuve-directed Sicario, which Sheridan has said was his first script he ever wrote. Sicario revolves around Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), an FBI agent who is enlisted to a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel. It also starred Josh Brolin and Benicio del Tor