Garret Dillahunt Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast along with the rest of the cast of "Winter's Bone" in 2010
• Won the Directors' Week Award for Best Actor from Fantasporto in 2014 for his performance in "Houston․"
• Studied journalism at the University of Washington and later acting at New York University's Graduate Acting Program
• Originally intended to be a journalist and worked for a small newspaper in his hometown called the "Selah Valley Optimist․"
• Realized he loved acting when he took an acting class that his college required for playwrights
• Quote: "It is kind of my whole philosophy as an actor, play a wide range of characters․ I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next․"
• Quote: "I've always enjoyed those actors who really transform themselves from one role to the next․"
• Following his master's work at NYU, he stayed in New York City to pursue off-Broadway stage opportunities before eventually transitioning to television and film roles in Hollywood
• Landed his biggest recurring role to date for Fox's "Raising Hope" in 2010 after appearances on series such as "ER", "Burn Notice" and "Deadwood"
• A huge fan of author Cormac McCarthy, he auditions for every McCarthy work that is made into a film