Timothy Olyphant

Timothy Olyphant is an American actor. He made his acting debut in an off-Broadway theater in 1995, in "The Monogamist", and won the Theatre World Award for his performance, and then originated David Sedaris' "The Santaland Diaries" in 1996. He then branched out to film; in the early years of his career, he was often cast in supporting villainous roles, most notably in Scream 2 (1997), Go (1999), A Man Apart (2003), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), and The Girl Next Door (2004). He came to the attention of a wider audience with his portrayal of Sheriff Seth Bullock in HBO's western "Deadwood" (2004–2006), later reprising the role in Deadwood: The Movie (2019). He had starring roles in such films as Catch and Release (2006), Hitman (2007), A Perfect Getaway (2009), and The Crazies (2010), and he played the main antagonist, Thomas Gabriel, in Live Free or Die Hard (2007). Olyphant was a recurring guest star in season two of the FX legal thriller Damages (2009).

Olyphant's best-known performance to date has been as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in FX's modern-day Kentucky southern gothic "Justified" (2010–2015), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011. Olyphant had guest appearances in numerous television sitcoms including "The Office" (2010), "The Mindy Project" (2013), and "The Grinder" (2015–2016), for which he won a Critics' Choice Award. He also starred in the Netflix comedy series "Santa Clarita Diet" (2017–2019) and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" as James Stacy (2019). In 2020, he played himself in a brief cameo, parodying his Justified character, in the NBC award-winning show "The Good Place". In the same year, he guest starred in season 10 of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", as well as in the fourth season of "Fargo" and the second season of "The Mandalorian" in the episode Chapter 9: The Marshal as Cobb Vanth.