Olyphant has two films coming out this year, IFC's The Safety of Objects opposite Glenn Close and New Line Cinema¹s A Man Apart opposite Vin Diesel. Olyphant also starred in the Sony Classics film The Broken Hearts Club, which told the story of a close-knit group of young gay men, who struggled to cope with their identity and found comfort in playing together on a softball team. The film also starred Dean Cain and John Mahoney.
On television, Olyphant appeared in the HBO film When Trumpets Fade by director John Irvin. He joined ABC's critically acclaimed drama series High Incident, which was created by Steven Spielberg and Eric Bogosian for Dreamworks.
Olyphant was born in Hawaii and raised in California. He studied fine art and theatre at the University of Southern California and after graduation moved to New York to enroll in Willima Esper's acting program. It was in New York that his acting career began. He received the World Theatre Award for Outstanding Debut Performance - an award previously won by Al Pacino and Alan Alda - for his role as 'Tim Hapgood' in the Playwright Horizon's The Monogamist, written by Christopher Kyle.
He went on to star in David Sedaris's one-man production Santaland Diaries at the Atlantic Theatre and later returned to the Playwright Horizon to star in Plunge, also written by Christopher Kyle.
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