Timothy Olyphant filmography and biography
Date of birth: 20 May 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Timothy Olyphant trivia
- He was raised in Modesto, California and attended the University of
Southern California.
- 1986 graduate of Fred C. Beyer High School, Modesto, California.
- His brother, Andy, is an A & R executive for Warner Bros. Records
- Swam competitively while attending the University of Southern California
(US National Finalist in the 200m individual medley)
- Lives in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- While at the University of Southern California, he studied fine art and
theater.
- Read sports for Los Angeles radio station Indie 103.1 on its morning
show until the departure of Joe Escalante in 2008.
- Has a daughter named Grace Katherine Olyphant, born on June 20th 1999,
with his wife Alexis Knief.
- Last name is pronounced "Ol-uh-fint".
- He was considered for the role of Tony Stark in Iron Man.
- Has a son named Henry and a daughter named Vivian with Alexis Knief.
Timothy Olyphant quotes
- Istanbul was unbelievable! What a city! I could go back there again and
again. That was a fascinating place. It was a very foreign experience.
But yeah, that is one of the perks of the job. You get to go places
that you'd never imagine and see a part of the world you hadn't
considered before. It was great. (On filming portions of Hitman in
Istanbul)
- (on Deadwood) The fact is, this job is always fun, always a good time,
but it's not that often that you can be as proud of it as I am of this
experience. We just had a great time making it too.
- Well, bottom line with A Perfect Getaway was, I thought "I'm going to
have a lot of fun at work." That part was gonna get me an opportunity
to play and have fun. There's something great when you read something
and you have some sense of, "I know what to do here. Give me a little
room. This is going to be a lot of fun." And then when we got Steve
[Zahn], "Well, now it's going to be a ton of fun, because there's
somebody who's going to be so fun to bounce off of." The quality of the
actors I got to work with on that made it seem like I was getting away
with something.
- [On committing to a TV series] I can't speak for everybody, but for me,
if you told actors that you wanted to do a TV series and it was going
to run three years and that's it, you're done, I think the line would
get a lot longer, without question. It's really easy to fall into this
habit of, "Ahh, I don't know what I'm going to do next." You think
every job is your last job, but there's another side to that, which is
that it never gets any better than when you first get a new job. It's
the most fun. When somebody says, "You got the job," that's the most
fun, and from that point forward, it's so exciting, but part of the fun
is when the job is over and you move on. The danger with success in
television is "Haven't we shot this episode before? Didn't we shoot
this scene two years ago?" I think it's really hard to just take the
risk from season to season and not be afraid to give the audience
something completely different, and trust that they'll come with you.