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Timothy Olyphant
Known for: ActingTimothy David Olyphant (/ˈɒlɪfənt/ OL-ih-fənt; born May 20, 1968) is an American actor. He made his acting debut at an off-Broadway theatre in 1995 in The Monogamist, 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), Gone in 60 Seconds and The Broken Hearts Club (2000), A Man Apart (2003), and The Girl Next Door (2004). He came to a broader audience through 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 films such 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). From 2010 to 2015, Olyphant starred as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in FX's modern-day Kentucky southern gothic Justified, a performance for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011. Since the end of Justified, Olyphant has starred in films such as Mother's Day (2016), Snowden (2016), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and Amsterdam (2022). He has also had notable 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). 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, a role he later reprised in The Book of Boba Fett. In 2025, he starred in a main role in the FX series Alien: Earth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Timothy Olyphant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Justified
as Raylan Givens 
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Jim Stacy 
Deadwood
as Seth Bullock 
Daisy Jones & the Six
as Rod Reyes 
Lucky
as John Armstrong 
The Girl Next Door
as Kelly 
Full Circle
as Derek Browne 
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Detective Drycoff 
Snowden
as CIA Agent Geneva 
Over Your Dead Body
as Pete 
Live Free or Die Hard
as Thomas Gabriel 
Alien: Earth
as Kirsh 
Rango
as Spirit of the West (voice) 
Santa Clarita Diet
as Joel Hammond 
LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian
as Cobb Vanth (voice) 
I Am Number Four
as Henri Smith 
Scream 2
as Mickey 
Missing Link
as Willard Stenk (voice) 
Amsterdam
as Taron Milfax 
Justified: City Primeval
as Raylan Givens 
The Crazies
as David 
Havoc
as Vincent 
Hitman
as Agent 47 
Mother's Day
as Henry 
This Is Where I Leave You
as Horry Callen 
A Man Apart
as Hollywood Jack 
A Perfect Getaway
as Nick 
THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH
as Jim Stacy 
Dreamcatcher
as Pete 
Rock Star
as Rob Malcolm 
Catch and Release
as Fritz Messing 
Deadwood: The Movie
as Seth Bullock 
Go
as Todd Gaines 
A Life Less Ordinary
as Hiker 
Head Over Heels
as Michael 
Stop-Loss
as Lieutenant Colonel Boot Miller 
The Starling
as Travis Delp 
When Trumpets Fade
as Lt. Lukas 
The Safety of Objects
as Randy 
Elektra Luxx
as Dellwood Butterworth 
Meet Bill
as Chip Johnson 
Dark Was the Night
as Steven Lang 
National Champions
as Elliott Schmidt 
I Am Luke Perry
as Self 
Ellen Foster
as Roy Hobbs 
Auggie Rose
as Roy Mason 
Dealin' with Idiots
as Max's Dad 
High Life
as Dick 
1999
as Hooks