Garrett Hedlund: biography and filmography

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Garrett Hedlund is an American musician, multi-songwriter, model and actor. He is known for his roles in such popular films as Eragon (2006), Death Sentence (2007), Tron: Legacy (2010) and others.

Garrett Hedlund: personal life (biography)

Our hero was born in 1984 in the American town of Roseau (Minnesota) and became the third child of Robert Martin and Christine Ann Hedlund. As a child, he often worked part-time on a cattle farm. After ninth grade, I decided to try my hand at something else.

So he ended up in Arizona with his mother, where he got a job as a waiter to pay for acting lessons. Some income was brought to him by the American company for the production of clothing and footwear for active lifestyle L. L. Bean and youth magazine Teen, with whom he collaborated as a model. In general, all this, to one degree or another, helped him realize his dream.

And how is Garrett's personal life? To date, it is known that he is not married. And inperiod from 2012 to 2016 our hero dated actress Kirsten Dunst.

Career start

For the first time on the screen, Garrett Hedlund appeared in 2004 in the historical drama Troy by Wolfgang Petersen, where he played Patroclus, a faithful companion of Achilles and an ally of Agamemnon, who organized a campaign against Troy. And in the same year he got a good role in Peter Berg's drama In the Glory. He portrayed Don Billingsley, quarterback for the Permian Panthers football team, whose problem was his relationship with his abusive, alcoholic father.

A year later, the actor starred in the crime thriller Blood for Blood, in which he was accompanied by such stars as Mark Wahlberg and American rapper Tyrese Gibson. Garrett Hedlund himself played Jack Mercer, one of the vengeful sons of the murdered Evelyn Mercer. And in 2006, he appeared in the American-British fantasy action movie Eragon by Stephen Fangmeyer, the plot of which is based on the work of the same name by Christopher Paolini. He got the role of Murtagh, Eragon's faithful companion and sparring partner.

Deadly Legacy

In 2007, Garrett played Billy Darley, one of the main characters in James Wan's crime thriller Death Sentence, the plot of which is based on the work of American screenwriter and writer Brian Garfield. And three years later, together with Gwyneth P altrow and Tim McGraw, he appeared in Shana Fest's musical I'm Leaving - Don't Cry. He played Bo Hutton, a young singer who is infatuated with a country singer named Kelly Kanter.

Garrett Hedlund's next film is Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi thriller Throne: Legacy (2010), where he plays Samuel Flynn, a shareholder of ENCOM mega-corporation, investigating the mysterious disappearance of his father. And the role earned him two awards in the Actor of the Year and Rising Star categories.

On the road to Neverland

In 2016, Garrett led the cast of W alter Salles' drama On the Road. In the film, based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, he acted as the main character Dean Moriarty, a new acquaintance of the writer Sal Paradise, who recently got out of prison. And in the same year he played a small role of Johnny Five in the musical drama of Ethan and Joel Coen "Inside Llewyn Davis".

Two years later, Garrett Hedlund starred in the drama Lullaby by Andrew Levitas, where he got the role of Jonathan, a slacker from Los Angeles who recently learned that his father was dying. Then he played submarine captain John Fitzgerald in Angelina Jolie's military drama Unbroken (2014), which tells the story of an American Olympian and World War II pilot who ended up in a POW camp.

In 2015, Garrett played a suicidal artist named Thomas. In the same year, he appeared as Captain James Hook in the family comedy Pan: Journey to Neverland. In the military drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016), filmed by Ang Lee, the actor played Sergeant David Dean, the leader of the squad"Bravo". And he got one of the main roles in the drama film Mudbound Farm by Dee Rees.

New items

It remains to note the projects in which Garrett Hedlund will appear. Films with his participation are planned for several years ahead. Already in 2017, Andrew Heckler's American drama "The Burden" will be released. In addition, work on the series Mosaic (2018) by Stephen Sodenberg is almost completed, and preparations are underway for filming the romantic drama Party of Century (2018) by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. And two years later, the actor will appear in JC Chandor's crime thriller Triple Frontier.