Olivia wilde y garrett hedlund biography
Garrett Hedlund
American actor (born 1984)
Garrett John Hedlund (born September 3, 1984) is an American actor and musician. His films include Troy (2004), Friday Night Lights (2004), Four Brothers (2005), Eragon (2006), Death Sentence (2007), Tron: Legacy (2010), Country Strong (2010), On the Road (2012), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Unbroken (2014), Pan (2015), Mudbound (2017), Triple Frontier (2019), and The Marsh King's Daughter (2023).
Early life
Garrett John Hedlund was born on September 3, 1984, in Roseau, Minnesota, to Kristine Anne (née Yanish) and Robert Martin Hedlund. His father is of Swedish descent and his mother is of Norwegian and German descent. He is the youngest of three children, with a brother, Nathaniel, and a sister, Amanda.
Hedlund was raised on a remote beef cattle farm near the small town of Wannaska, Minnesota, in the Scandinaviandiaspora.
In the 9th grade, he moved to live with his mother in Arizona. From an early age, he has had a great fondness for reading. During his school years he participated in ice hockey, track and field, wrestling, and American football. In Arizona he saved his tips from working as a waiter to pay for lessons with acting coach Jean Fowler, with whom he worked on speeches and script material.
Six months after graduating from Horizon High School, he moved to Los Angeles.
Career
2003–2009: Early work and breakthrough
In 2003, Hedlund moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. As a teenager, Hedlund modeled for L.L. Bean and Teen magazine.
At the age of nineteen, Hedlund made his debut in his first feature film playing Patroclus, younger cousin of Achilles played by Brad Pitt in the mythological epic adve
Olivia Wilde back for ‘Tron 3’ with Garrett Hedlund
Olivia Wilde is ready to plug back in to the Grid.
The actress is on board to reteam with “Tron: Legacy” costar Garrett Hedlund and director Joseph Kosinski for “Tron 3,” The Times has confirmed.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.
Released by Disney in 2010, “Legacy” continued the story begun in the 1982 sci-fi film “Tron,” which starred Jeff Bridges as a computer programmer pulled into a digital world where he battles anthropomorphic programs.
Though the original “Tron” was not a commercial success, it was the first feature film to use extensive computer-generated animation, and it went on to develop a cult following.
“Legacy” picked up the narrative decades later with Hedlund playing the son of Bridges’ character and Wilde portraying Quorra, an “isomorphic algorithm” with a glowing body suit and an angular bob.
Like its predecessor, “Legacy” was not a huge hit: Though it grossed $172 million in North America, that barely accounted for its hefty $170 million budget. The film grossed an additional $228 million overseas, but studios see a smaller cut of international revenue.
Still, in an era when Disney and its competitors increasingly bank on recognizable intellectual property, foreign box office, and spinoff and merchandising opportunities, the “Tron” franchise appears to have enough juice to justify a third installment.
“Tron 3” has not yet been officially greenlit, but the project is eyeing a fall shoot in Vancouver, Canada.
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Garrett John Hedlund was born in Roseau, Minnesota to Kristi Anne (Yanish) and Robert Martin Hedlund. He has two older siblings, Nathaniel and Amanda. His father is of Swedish descent and his mother is of German and Norwegian ancestry.
Garrett spent his early years growing up on a farm in a small town. When he was in the ninth grade, he moved to Scottsdale, Arizona with his mother and took private acting lessons. Immediately upon graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career. One month later, he landed the role of Achilles' cousin Patroclus in the major feature Troy (2004) opposite Brad Pitt. His next feature was Friday Night Lights (2004). starring Billy Bob Thornton, in which Garrett played a high-school football player. He then landed a starring role opposite Mark Wahlberg in Four Brothers (2005), playing one of four brothers whose mother is murdered. He also starred opposite Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde in Tron: Legacy (2010), the long-awaited sequel to the science-fiction cult classic Tron (1982).
BornSeptember 3, 1984
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