Garrett Hedlund: biography and filmography

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: Heritage” (2010), etc. In the article we will take a closer look at his work.

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 the ninth grade, I decided to try myself in something else.

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

How is Garrett doing with his personal life? Today it is known that he is not married. And in the period from 2012 to 2016. our hero met with actress Kirsten Dunst.

Carier start

For the first time on screen, Garrett Hedlund appeared in 2004 in Wolfgang Petersen’s historical drama “Troy,” where he played Patroclus, Achilles’s faithful ally and ally Agamemnon, who organized a campaign against Troy. And in the same year he got a good role in the drama of Peter Berg "In the rays of glory." He appeared as Don Billingsley - the defender of the Permian Panthers football team, whose problem was in a difficult relationship with a cruel father suffering from alcoholism.

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

Deadly legacy

In 2007, Garrett played Billy Darley, one of the main characters in the crime thriller James Wang's “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 Paltrow and Tim McGraw, he appeared in the musical of Shana Fest "I am leaving - do not cry." He played Bo Hatton, a young singer who was keen on a country singer named Kelly Kanter.

The next film by Garrett Hedlund is Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi action movie “Tron: Legacy” (2010), where he played Samuel Flynn, a shareholder in the mega-corporation ENCOM investigating the mysterious disappearance of his father. And this role provided him with two awards in such categories as “Actor of the Year” and “Rising Star”.

On the road to Netland

In 2016, Garrett led the cast of Walter Salles’s drama On the Road. In the film, based on Jack Kerouac’s novel , he acted as the main character of Dean Moriarty, a new acquaintance of the writer Sal Paradise, recently released from prison. And in the same year, he played a small role of Johnny Five in the musical drama Ethan and Joel Cohen's "Inside Lewin Davis."

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

In 2015, Garrett played a suicidal artist named Thomas. In the same year, appeared in the image of Captain James Hook in the family comedy "Peng: Journey to Netlandia." In the military drama Billy Lynn's Long Journey during the Break of a Football Match (2016), shot by Ang Lee, the actor played Sergeant David Dean, the leader of the Bravo squad. And he received one of the main roles in the drama film of Di Riis "Farm" Madbound ".

New items

It remains to note the projects in which Garrett Hedlund will still appear. Films with his participation are planned for several years in advance. Already in 2017, the American drama Andrew Hackler's “Burden” will be released. In addition, work on Stephen Sodenberg's “Mosaic” series (2018) has almost been completed, and preparations are underway for the shooting of the romantic drama Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini Party of Century (2018). And two years later, the actor appears in the criminal action movie Jay C. Chandor "Triple Border".