John Carroll Lynch Add to My Celebs Age 48 Birthday Aug. 1st, 1963 Born in Boulder, Colorado, USA Height 6' 3"

John Carroll Lynch's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) K-Ville Captain Jam… Carnivale Varlyn "Bir… Body of Proof Det. Bud Mo… The Drew Carey Show Steve Carey The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H. Mayor Garre…

Main Movie Roles 2011 - Paul 2010 - Shutter Island 2009 - Love Happens 2008 - Gran Torino 2007 - Full of It 2007 - Things We Lost in the Fire 2007 - Zodiac 2005 - Mozart and the Whale 2004 - Catch That Kid 2003 - Confidence 2003 - Gothika 2002 - The Good Girl 2002 - Bug 2001 - Bubble Boy 2000 - Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000 - Waking the Dead 2000 - The Next Best Thing 1999 - The Minus Man 1999 - Pushing Tin 1999 - Anywhere But Here 1998 - The Naked Man 1998 - Mercury Rising 1997 - Face/Off 1997 - Volcano 1996 - The Fan 1996 - Feeling Minnesota 1996 - Fargo 1996 - Beautiful Girls 1995 - The Cure 1993 - Grumpy Old Men

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

John Carroll Lynch was born August 1st, 1963 in Boulder, Colorado. He was raised in Denver Colorado. It was there John found a passion for acting and became a Denver Broncos fan. He graduated in the mid-80s with a B.F.A. in theatre from the The Catholic University of America / Hartke Theatre Acting program. From then, he continued to work in theatre around the country, but concentrated mostly on his work at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, acting in many plays from Shakespeare to Shaw to Chekhov. In the early nineties, John was able to find time away from the theatre to work in film, as productions came through Minnesota. In 1996, he received critical acclaim for his role as Marge Gunderson's simple husband Norm Gunderson in Fargo (1996). He went on to make two more films that year, both of which were conveniently set in Minnesota, the acclaimed Beautiful Girls (1996) and Feeling Minnesota (1996). Since then, John's film career has been on an amazing climb. Much like other well respected actors from the theatre, such as John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, he chooses to play very interesting and diverse roles.


TRIVIA:

• John is an Alumni of Regis Jesuit High School, now located in Aurora, Colorado but he graduated in 1981 when the campus was located in north-west Denver.
• Was first choice to play Arthur Leigh Allen in Zodiac (2007). David Fincher saw his cold performance in The Gothic and decided to cast him.
• Former member of the Guthrie Theater Acting Company.
• During the 1990s, John was a company member of the world-renowned Guthrie Theater Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as being a mentor for the graduate acting program of the University of Minnesota.
• Graduated from The Catholic University of America, B.F.A., Theatre program. He was Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. May 10, 1986.

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