Overview
Garret Lee Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2021). He has also appeared in The 4400, ER, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Burn Notice, Justified, and The Mindy Project (2015–2017). He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).
In film, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Winter's Bone, Looper, and 12 Years a Slave.
Early life and education
Garret Dillahunt was born in Castro Valley, California, the middle of three boys, and was raised in Selah, Washington, a suburb of Yakima. In late 1981, Dillahunt's elder brother, Eric, died in a road accident near Ellensburg, after the car he was traveling in as a passenger, whose driver was drunk and speeding at the time, veered off the road.
After high school, Dillahunt attended the University of Washington, from which he graduated in 1987 with a B.A. in journalism, before earning an MFA in acting at New York University.
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