Garret Dillahunt Biography

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, appeared in a recurring role on The Mindy Project, and is currently appearing on The Guest Book.

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. 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.

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 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, Winter's Bone, The Last House On The Left, TalhotBlonde, and the indie horror film, Burning Bright.

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.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Last Call	Curtis
2001	'	Billings
2007	No Country for Old Men	Wendell
2007	'	Ed Miller
2008	Pretty Bird	Carson Thrash
2008	John's Hand	John	Short film
2009	Water Pills	Hal	Short film
2009	'	Krug
2009	The Road	Gang Member
2009	One Night Only	Richard	Short film
2010	Winter's Bone	Sheriff Baskin
2010	Amigo	Lt. Compton
2010	Burning Bright	Johnny Gaveneau
2010	Oliver Sherman	Sherman Oliver
2012	Any Day Now	Paul Fliger
2012	Revenge for Jolly!	Gary
2012	Killing Them Softly	Eddie Mattie
2012	Looper	Jesse
2013	Houston	Robert Wagner
2013	12 Years a Slave	Armsby
2014	'	Hogan
2014	Just Before I Go	Lucky Morgan
2015	Against the Sun	Harold Dixon
2015	Thrilling Adventure Hour Live	Techs
2015	Beast	Rick Grey
2016	Come and Find Me	John Hall
2017	Wheelman	Clayton
2017	'	Bellwether	In post-production
2017	Rounding Third		In post-production
2017	Braven		In post-production
2018	Widows		In post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993-1994	One Life to Live	Charlemagne Moody	TV series
1996	NYPD Blue	Bryce Coopersmith	Episode: "Where'd the Van Gogh?"
1998	'	Edward Skur	Episode: "Travelers"
1998	Maximum Bob	Deputy Dawson Hayes	Episodes: "Pilot", "A Little Tail", "Good Dog Karl"
1998	Remembering Sex	Chris Goodman	TV film
1998	Seven Days	Kevin Poe	Episode: "The Gettysburg Virus"
1998	Millennium	Rick Van Horn	Episode: "Closure"
2001	Leap Years	Gregory Paget	Main role; 20 episodes
2002	Law & Order	Julian Preuss	Episode: "Open Season"
2003	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Luke	Episode: "Precious Metal"
2003-2004	'	Lou Peterson	Main role; 13 episodes
2004	Mr. Ed	Jim Hendry	TV film
2004	Deadwood	Jack McCall	Recurring role; 6 episodes
2005	'	Karl Robie Jr.	Episode: "Little Girl Lost"
2005	CSI: NY	Steve Collins	Episode: "What You See Is What You See"
2005	Deadwood	Francis Wolcott	Recurring role; 10 episodes
2005-2006	'	Matthew Ross	Recurring role; 11 episodes
2005-2006	ER	Steve Curtis	Recurring role; 5 episodes
2006	'	Jesus	Main role; 8 episodes
2006	Law & Order	Eric Lund	Episode: "Kingmaker"
2006	Numbers	Jack Tollner	Episode: "Provenance"
2007	John from Cincinnati	Dr. Michael Smith	Recurring role; 8 episodes
2007	Damages	Marshall Phillips	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2007	'	Theo Harrison	TV film
2007-2009	Life	Roman Nevikov	Episodes: "The Fallen Woman", "Trapdoor", "One"
2008-2009	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	Cromartie / John Henry	Main role; 17 episodes
2009	Criminal Minds	Mason Turner	Episode: "To Hell... And Back"
2009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Tom O'Neill	Episode: "Family Affair"
2009	Lie to Me	Eric Matheson	Episode: "Honey"
2009	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Kevin O'Donnell	Episode: "Hardwired"
2009	White Collar	Patrick Aimes	Episode: "Flip of the Coin"
2010	Gary Unmarried	Goose	Episode: "Gary Unmarried?"
2010, 2013	Burn Notice	Simon Escher	3 episodes
2010	'	Eddie Strickland	Episode: "A Perfect Storm"
2010-2014	Raising Hope	Burt Chance	Main role, 88 episodes
2011	Memphis Beat	Tim Wayne	Episode: "Body of Evidence"
2011	Alphas	Jonas Englin	Episode: "A Short Time in Paradise"
2012	TallhotBlond	Thomas Montgomery	TV film
2013	Newsreaders	Mikhail Rousseau	Episode: "CCSI: Boston"
2013-2014	Paloma	Matthew	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2014	Elementary	Bart MacIntosh	Episode: "No Lack of Void"
2014-2017	Hand of God	Keith "KD" Dennison	20 episodes
2015	Justified	Ty Walker	Recurring role; 8 episodes
2015	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Dave Majors	Episode: "Det. Dave Majors"
2015-2017	The Mindy Project	Dr. Jody Kimball-Kinney	Recurring role; 39 episodes
2017	Blindspot	Travis	Episode: "Senile Lines"
2017	Arkansas Traveler	Wayland	6 episodes
2017	The Guest Book	Dr. Andrew Brown	10 episodes
2017	The Gifted	Dr. Roderick Campbell	4 episodes