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Timothy Olyphant

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Timothy Olyphant at an event for 300 (2006)
Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James (Stephan James) and teammate Emmett Sunday (Alexander Ludwig) ignite a player's strike declaring they won't compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes could not be higher. Now, with only hours until kickoff, the head coach (J.K. Simmons) and various power brokers (Lil Rel Howery, Tim Blake Nelson, Andrew Bachelor, Jeffrey Donovan, David Koechner, Kristin Chenoweth, Timothy Olyphant, Uzo Aduba) must race against the clock to protect or destroy the prevailing collegiate athletics system.
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From Timothy Olyphant's first screen appearances, such as his two-minute bit in The First Wives Club (1996), to "Nicko", whose presence at times dwarfed the island in A Perfect Getaway (2009), he has been a force to be reckoned with.

Born in Hawaii, Timothy David Olyphant was raised in Modesto, California. He is the son of Katherine Lyon (Gideon) and John Vernon Bevan Olyphant, a college teacher who was also an executive at E & J Gallo Winery. He has an older brother, Andy, who is in A&R for Warner Bros. Records, and a younger brother, Matt Olyphant, who was the lead singer for the punk rock group, Fetish, and is also an artist. He is a descendant of the prominent Vanderbilt and Olyphant families of businesspeople, and his ancestry includes Russian Jewish (from a maternal great-grandfather), English, German, Scottish, Dutch, and Irish. Timothy quickly became Modesto's favorite son, competing as a pro swimmer and excelling at drawing. It was, by chance, that he enrolled in an acting course as an elective and decided to pursue an acting career. He took his family and headed to New York City, where he studied the craft and began auditioning for roles. From the beginning, he tried to choose diversified roles and take chances with every genre and always approached everything he did with commitment, humor and grace. Timothy is married to his college sweetheart, Alexis Knief, and, together, they raise three children, one son and two daughters in California. He has managed to keep his personal life out of the tabloids. He obviously has his priorities straight, as this is no easy task in Hollywood.

Highlights of Olyphant's career include his riveting portrayal of "Sheriff Seth Bullock" in HBO's hit drama, Deadwood (2004). He now personifies intensity as complex Kentucky Marshal, "Raylan Givens", in FX's Justified (2010). On the big screen, in 2010's The Crazies (2010), he had the chance to infuse his character with doubts, fears and humaneness in an inhumane situation. Mr. Olyphant proved he could carry a major movie on his talent, alone. He recently appeared in I Am Number Four (2011), a sci-if thriller, in which Tim provided the adult mentorship, taking a back seat to the teen cast.
BornMay 20, 1968
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BornMay 20, 1968
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  • Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys

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Timothy Olyphant in Justified: City Primeval
Timothy Olyphant in Justified: City Primeval
Conan O'Brien and Timothy Olyphant in Timothy Olyphant (2020)
Conan O'Brien and Timothy Olyphant in Timothy Olyphant (2020)
Timothy Olyphant in Timothy Olyphant (2020)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothy Olyphant in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Conan O'Brien and Timothy Olyphant in Timothy Olyphant (2019)
Timothy Olyphant in Timothy Olyphant (2019)
Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant in Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
Timothy Olyphant in Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
Brad Dourif, Powers Boothe, Paula Malcomson, Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, and Robin Weigert in Deadwood (2004)
Conan O'Brien and Timothy Olyphant in Conan (2010)

Known for

Timothy Olyphant in Justified (2010)
Justified
8.6
TV Series
  • Raylan Givens
Go (1999)
Go
7.2
  • Todd Gaines
  • 1999
Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Marley Shelton, Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez, and Chris Hemsworth in A Perfect Getaway (2009)
A Perfect Getaway
6.5
  • Nick
  • 2009
Anthony Sellers in The Crazies (2010)
The Crazies
6.5
  • David
  • 2010

Credits

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Actor

  • Daisy Jones & The Six
    • Post-production
  • Havoc
    • Post-production
  • Full Circle
    • In Production
  • Justified: City Primeval
    • (rumored)
    • Post-production
  • Tino Insana, Jelani Imani, Jacob Bertrand, Brianna Gentilella, and Teddy Walsh in Bubble Guppies (2011)
    Bubble Guppies
    • (voice)
  • Christian Bale, John David Washington, and Margot Robbie in Amsterdam (2022)
    Amsterdam
  • Will Forte, Nick Offerman, Paul Rust, Jenny Slate, Dulcé Sloan, and Aparna Nancherla in The Great North (2021)
    The Great North
    • (voice)
  • Ming-Na Wen and Temuera Morrison in The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
    The Book of Boba Fett
  • National Champions (2021)
    National Champions
  • Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, and Yeardley Smith in The Simpsons (1989)
    The Simpsons
    • (voice)
  • Melissa McCarthy in The Starling (2021)
    The Starling
  • Justin Roiland in Rick and Morty (2013)
    Rick and Morty
    • (voice)
  • Patrick Stewart, Curtis Armstrong, Dee Bradley Baker, Chris Diamantopoulos, Jeff Fischer, Scott Grimes, David Koechner, Seth MacFarlane, Kevin Michael Richardson, Wendy Schaal, Daisuke Suzuki, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Mike Barker, Mike Henry, Rachael MacFarlane, and Matt McKenna in American Dad! (2005)
    American Dad!
    • (voice)
  • Fargo (2014)
    Fargo
  • Pedro Pascal in The Mandalorian (2019)
    The Mandalorian
  • Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Marc Evan Jackson, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, Jameela Jamil, and D'Arcy Carden in The Good Place (2016)
    The Good Place
  • Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
    Deadwood: The Movie
  • Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino, Quentin Tarantino, Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Damon Herriman, Timothy Olyphant, Harley Quinn Smith, Kansas Bowling, Madisen Beaty, Mike Moh, Josephine Valentina Clark, Sydney Sweeney, Michaela Sprague, Margot Robbie, Kayla Radomski, Ryan Ramirez, Margaret Qualley, and Julia Butters in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
    Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Producer

  • Justified: City Primeval
    • Post-production
  • Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
    Deadwood: The Movie
  • Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant in Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
    Santa Clarita Diet
  • Timothy Olyphant in Justified (2010)
    Justified
  • Justified: Sneak Peek

Soundtrack

  • Jimmy Fallon in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
    • (uncredited)

Videos122

"There's Somebody Outside" from The Crazies
Clip 1:02
"There's Somebody Outside" from The Crazies
"Car Wash" from The Crazies
Clip 0:50
"Car Wash" from The Crazies
"Big Plane" from The Crazies
Clip 0:56
"Big Plane" from The Crazies
"Is He Dead?" from The Crazies
Clip 0:58
"Is He Dead?" from The Crazies
Lawman
Clip 3:08
Lawman
Catch and Release
Clip 0:46
Catch and Release
Catch and Release
Clip 1:04
Catch and Release
Catch and Release
Clip 0:15
Catch and Release
The Crazies
Interview 0:45
The Crazies
The Crazies
Interview 0:36
The Crazies
The Crazies
Interview 0:38
The Crazies
The Crazies
Interview 0:28
The Crazies

Personal details

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    • May 20, 1968
    • Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • 1991 - present (3 children)
    • (Sibling)
  • Other works
    Acted in Playwrights Horizon's production of "The Monogamist," for which he won the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance.
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    • 5 Interviews
    • 8 Articles
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Before he got work as an actor, he started his career performing stand-up comedy in New York City and Boston, where Dave Attell, Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Jay Mohr and Dave Chappelle were other new comedians on the scene.
  • Quotes
    Istanbul was unbelievable! What a city! I could go back there again and again. That was a fascinating place. It was a very foreign experience. But yeah, that is one of the perks of the job. You get to go places that you'd never imagine and see a part of the world you hadn't considered before. It was great. (On filming portions of Hitman (2007) in Istanbul).
    • Unusual posture

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