Timothy Olyphant Biography

Summary

"Timothy David Olyphant" (b. May 20 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American actor. Olyphant is best-known for playing sheriff Seth Bullock on "Deadwood". He plays Agent 47 in the 2007 film "Hitman", based on the popular video game franchise.

Career

Timothy Olyphant began acting onstage, and received the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance for his performance as 'Tim Hapgood' in "The Monogamist". Olyphant subsequently appeared in "SantaLand Diaries" and "Plunge" on stage. He made his film debut in 1996's "The First Wives Club".

He followed the role up with parts in the films "Scream 2" (1997), "Go" (1999), "The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy" (2000) and "Gone In Sixty Seconds" (2000). During this time, Olyphant also guest starred in an episode of "Sex and the City".

Olyphant played the lead role of Sheriff Seth Bullock on HBO's "Deadwood" from March 2004 until the series' end. Olyphant considered it to be one of his first leading roles as a 'complicated' and 'complex' character.

More recently, he has had more prominent roles in "Rock Star" (2001) and "Dreamcatcher" (2003). He played a porn film producer alongside Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert, in "The Girl Next Door" in 2004. He reportedly had an uncredited role in "Wedding Crashers".

Olyphant's latest film role is in the comedy "Catch and Release", playing the love interest of Jennifer Garner's character; Olyphant was cast in the role over several other known actors, including Matthew Fox. The film opened in January 2007.

He appeared in "Live Free or Die Hard", as the villain, a cyber-terrorist, and will star in "Stop-Loss", about the Iraq War, playing a Lieutenant Colonel; "Bill", a comedy co-starring Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba.

Filming on "Hitman" began in March 2007 in Bulgaria over a three month period. During this time he maintained the daily sports report, which he phoned into radio station KDLD (103.1 FM).

Olyphant serves as the sports reporter for Joe Escalante's morning show on LA radio station Indie 103.1, every Monday through Friday. According to www.TimOlyphant.net (November 2 2007), Olyphant has signed to appear on a recurring basis on ABC's comedy series, "Samantha Who", starring Christina Applegate.