Garrett Hedlund
Garrett Hedlund was born in Roseau, Minnesota, United States on September 3rd, 1984 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 39, Garrett Hedlund biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Career
Hedlund moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to continue his acting career. Hedlund modeled for L.L. as a youth. Bean and Teen Magazine.
Hedlund made his debut in his first feature film playing Patroclus, the younger cousin of Achilles played by Brad Pitt in the epic epic war drama Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen. On May 14, 2004, the film was released.
He also co-starred with Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, and Tim McGraw as Don Billingsley in the 2004 sports drama Friday Night Lights, where McGraw played his violent father. In 2005, Jack Mercer co-starred with Mark Wahlberg in the crime drama Four Brothers as Jack Mercer.
In the fantasy-adventure film Eragon as Murtagh Morzansson, he co-starred Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Djimon Hounsou, and John Malkovich. This twentieth Century Fox film is a foreign co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and Hungary. It was announced in October 2006 that the stars from the Eragon film would appear in the game version. In the video game Eragon, Hedlund lends his image and voice to his character Murtagh.
In the comedy Georgia Rule, directed by Garry Marshall, he co-starred Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda, and Felicity Huffman in 2007. He co-starred Kevin Bacon in the crime thriller Death Sentence, directed by James Wan, that same year.
Hedlund plays Sam Flynn, the main protagonist in the science fiction/action film Tron: Legacy, costarring Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde in 2010. Hedlund was selected for the "unique combination of intelligence, wit, humor, appearance, and physical appearance" that producers were looking for in Flynn's son during the casting process. Hedlund trained hard to do his own stunts, which involved jumping over cars and extensive wire and harness work. Joseph Kosinski produced the film on December 17, 2010. It's a sequel to Tron, the 1982 film in which director Steven Lisberger returned to direct. Tron: Legacy has also been described as a cult film, as has its predecessor. Hedlund had been tempted by Disney to appear Captain America/Steve Rogers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but had to cancel due to his film commitments.
Hedlund appeared in Country Strong, the musical drama that was released on December 22, 2010, with Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester, and his Friday Night Lights co-star Tim McGraw. He performed a number of songs for the film, including "Chances Are" which appeared on Country Strong: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Critics were particularly appreciative of his work. Roughstock wrote that "the best song on this album belongs to him," and Country Weekly said, noting vocal similarities, Hedlund and Charlie Robison's "most convincing" was "the best song on this album. On a second soundtrack titled Country Strong: More Music From the Motion Picture, six other songs, including a duet with Meester, were included.
At the Glamour Awards on June 7, 2011, Hedlund was named "Man of the Year" for the year.
In the 2012 adventure drama On the Road, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, he co-starred Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Kirsten Dunst, and Viggo Mortensen as Dean Moriarty. Walter Salles produced the film, which was based on Jack Kerouac's novel of the same name. In the live-action version of Akira, Hedlund was cast as Kaneda Shotaro, but the film's production was postponed. He was an advertisement and catwalk model for Prada's Italian fashion company in 2012. Hedlund's role as Sam Flynn in the sequel to Tron: Legacy will be reprised by Disney in December 2012.
In the 2013 French-American black comedy-drama film Inside Llewyn Davis, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, he co-starred Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and Adam Driver. In the music video of American rock band Kings of Leon's song Beautiful War, Hedlund honors a fallen cowboy whose name is Lane Frost. In 2013, he was also the model for Yves Saint Laurent Beauté's French men's fragrance "La Nuit de l'Homme."
In the sequel to E. L. James' best-selling book Fifty Shades of Grey and Finnick Odair's sequel to the dystopian science fiction/adventure film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Hedlund reportedly turned down Christian Grey's role in the film version of E. L. James' best-selling book Fifty Shades of Grey and Finnick Odair.
Hedlund appeared in the drama film Lullaby, directed by Andrew Levitas, in 2014. Hedlund sings the main musical theme in this film. In the historical drama Unbroken, directed by Angelina Jolie, he co-starred Jack O'Connell and Domhnall Gleeson that year.
In the film Pan in 2015, Hedlund co-starred Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, and Levi Miller, directed by Joe Wright. Hedlund wrote The Art of Pan with Joe Wright and Christopher Grove in September of the same year.
In the 2016 film war drama film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, directed by Ang Lee, he co-starred Joe Alwyn and Vin Diesel.
In the film Mudbound, directed by Dee Rees, he co-starred Carey Mulligan in 2017. In the same year, he co-starred with Sharon Stone as an aspiring artist in Steven Soderbergh's HBO murder mystery drama series Mosaic. It was available in two ways: as an iOS/Android phone app and as a television drama. Hedlund produced and appeared alongside Juno Temple in the short film Tocsin, directed by Frank E. Flowers, and was shot in Cayman Islands in 2018. In the drama film Burden, inspired by true events, he co-starred Forest Whitaker and Usher in the same year.
In the action-adventure film starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, and Pedro Pascal, which was produced by Netflix in 2019 and directed by J. C. Chandor, Triple Frontier film between Soacha and Bogotá, where he appears as a former Special Forces Soldier in a South American mercenary mission. In the romantic drama film Dirt Music, directed by Gregor Jordan, he co-stars with Kelly Macdonald this year. This film is based on Tim Winton's book of the same name; Hedlund recorded a number of songs for the film. A "Dirt Music" soundtrack album (featuring music from the film) was released as a digital download in August 2020.
In the biographical film The United States vs. Billie Holiday in 2021, directed by Lee Daniels, Hedlund portrayed controversial US government official Harry J. Anslinger; Anslinger was actually in his mid-to-60s during the film's filming; He appears in the first Stephen King podcast titled Strawberry Spring in September 2021. "The Road," Hedlund's first solo not accompanied by an actor, was digitally released on January 21, 2022.