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Apt at both edy and tense, dramatic actn, Timothy Olyphant was an eclectic but appealg prence two highly-regard seri - "Deadwood" (HBO, 2004-06) and "Jtified" (FX, 2010-15) - and an veterate scene-stealer films and seri like "Go" (1999), "Damag" (FX Network/Audience Network, 2007-2012) and "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007). Born Timothy David Olyphant on May 20, 1968 Honolulu, Hawaii, he moved wh his fay - Gallo we executive J.V. Bevan Olyphant, his wife, Kathere and two brothers - to Mosto, California when he was two years of age. There, he nurtured an tert petive swimmg at Fred C. Beyer High School, and nsired a reer art. Olyphant was reced to the Universy of Southern California by s swimmg ach, but upon disverg that he would be unable to swim and pursue his chosen major- archecture - he chose to earn his gree fe arts. Upon graduatg 1990, he married his llege sweetheart, Alexis Knief, and the pair reloted to New York, where Olyphant dabbled achg and stand-up edy before abandong fe art favor of an actg reer. After pletg a two-year urse of study at the William Esper Stud, he began landg mor rol on televisn seri and featur like "Sex and the Cy" (HBO, 1998-2004) and "Scream 2" (1997). His first break me as a dg-alg anti-hero Doug Liman's edgy edy-drama "Go" (1999), which turn led to an offer om s producer, Mickey Lidll, to star "The Broken Hearts Club" (2000), a romantic edy about gay men Wt Hollywood, California. Rponse to the film set the template for much of Olyphant's film output the next few years: Olyphant's slyly bemed performanc was, more often than not, the sole bright spot die and stud efforts like "Auggie Rose" (2000); "Gone Sixty Sends" (2000), wh Nilas Cage; "Head Over Heels" (2001); "Rock Star" (2001) wh Mark Wahlberg, and "The Girl Next Door" (2004). That same year, Olyphant received one of his bt shows "Deadwood," producer David Milch's proudly profane and tritely plotted Wtern seri about the liv of real and imaged dividuals the notor tular South Dakota mg mp. Olyphant played Seth Bullock, the hot-tempered but law-abidg mp sheriff, whose notns of right and wrong often ran afoul of Ian McShane's Machiavellian saloonkeeper, Al Swearengen. A cril favore for Milch's ornate dialogue and st of acplished players, "Deadwood" was only a most ratgs h, and the st of matag an entire town set led to s untimely mise after two seasons. But even wh the abbreviated n, the attentn afford by crics and dtry figur to "Deadwood" helped to boost Olyphant's profile om ic support to dramatic lead and -lead, which turn led to major rol a slew of motn pictur. The most succsful of the was undoubtedly "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007), whch st him as a cyber-terrorist pted agast Bce Willis' reluctant hero, but as before, Olyphant was the most notable element of films like "Hman" (2007), which afford him a rare lead; "The Perfect Getaway" (2009); "The Crazi" (2010) and "Elektra Luxx" (2010). Olyphant was soon back on televisn, where he played Rose Byrne's highly spect boyiend the send season of "Damag," and a brief n as a handsome paper salman on several episos of "The Office" (NBC, 2005-2013). His performance on "Damag" led to work chief John Landgraf offerg him the lead on "Jtified," a crime thriller based on Elmore Leonard's stori about a flty U.S. Marshal. The seri helped to do what "Deadwood" had promised - to provi Olyphant wh a long-nng and high-qualy showse for his talents, which earned a Emmy nomatn 2011. When "Jtified" ran s urse after five seasons, Olyphant bounced between ic and dramatic efforts: the former clud an amg turn as a va, fictnalized versn of himself on "The Grr" (Fox, 2015-16) and a seri lead the Netflix dark edy "The Santa Clara Diet" (2017-19), wh Olyphant as a suburban hband attemptg to ntend wh his wife (Drew Barrymore), who has transformed to a nnibalistic zombie. In 2019, long-standg mors of a "Deadwood" revival fally materialized as a two-hour TV-movie for HBO, wh Olyphant reprisg his role as an olr, slightly ls irascible Bullock.