Garrett Hedlund

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	Singles
	Give In To Me (with Leighton Meester )

Garrett Hedlund at Comic Con (2015)

Garrett John Hedlund (born September 3, 1984 in Roseau , Minnesota ) is an American actor .

biography

When he was six years old, he moved with his parents, Kristine and Robert, and two older siblings, Nathaniel and Amanda, from their farm in Minnesota to Scottsdale , Arizona . Hedlund went to high school there , worked on the wrestling and football teams, and took private acting lessons in his spare time. Before his film career, he worked as a model and was discovered by a talent scout.

He made his feature film debut in The Original Donut Chronicles (which was never released), followed immediately by the US production Troy (Patroclus), whereupon he was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for his achievements . He then starred in the films Friday Night Lights (Don Billingsley), Four Brothers (Jack Mercer, alongside Mark Wahlberg ), Eragon - The Legacy of the Dragon Riders (Murtagh), Georgia's Law (Harlan Wilson) and Death Sentence (Billy Darley ) With.

Garrett Hedlund was also cast by Disney to star in Tron: Legacy , the sequel to the 1982 classic Tron , directed by Joseph Kosinski . The film opened in German cinemas on January 27, 2011.

For the soundtrack of the film Country Strong (2010), in which he played Beau Hutton, he recorded some songs.

On November 22, 2013, the band Kings of Leon released the music video for their single Beautiful War from their album Mechanical Bull, in which Hedlund plays.

From 2012 to 2016 he was in a relationship with his On the Road colleague Kirsten Dunst . Hedlund has been dating actress Emma Roberts since March 2019 .

Filmography

2004: Troy (Troy)
2004: Friday Night Lights - Touchdown on Friday (Friday Night Lights)
2005: Four Brothers (Four Brothers)
2006: Eragon - Legacy of the Dragon Riders (Eragon)
2007: Georgia Rule (Georgia Rule)
2007: Death Sentence - death sentence (Death Sentence)
2010: Tron: Legacy
2010: Country Strong
2012: On the Road - Unterwegs (On the Road)
2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
2014: Lullaby
2014: Unbroken
2015: Mojave
2015: Pan
2016: Billy Lynn's Crazy Heroes Tour (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk)
2017: Mudbound
2019: Triple Frontier

Web links

Commons : Garrett Hedlund - Collection of Images

Garrett Hedlund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Biography ( memento from June 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on film-zeit.de

Individual evidence

↑ Chart sources: US
↑ German theatrical release. Verband der Filmverleiher eV, accessed on June 4, 2010 .
↑ Zach Johnson: Garrett Hedlund Reveals How He Began Dating Kirsten Dunst. usmagazine.com, January 8, 2013, accessed May 23, 2014 .
↑ Merle Ginsberg: Scream Queen Emma Roberts Is Afraid of Everything. In: Los Angeles Magazine . September 25, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 .
↑ Ale Russian: Going Public! Emma Roberts Holds Hands with Garrett Hedlund After Evan Peters Split. In: People . April 1, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hedlund, Garrett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hedlund, Garrett John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd September 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Roseau , Minnesota , USA

[charts-1] Chart sources: US

[2] German theatrical release. Verband der Filmverleiher eV, accessed on June 4, 2010 .

[3] Zach Johnson: Garrett Hedlund Reveals How He Began Dating Kirsten Dunst. usmagazine.com, January 8, 2013, accessed May 23, 2014 .

[4] Merle Ginsberg: Scream Queen Emma Roberts Is Afraid of Everything. In: Los Angeles Magazine . September 25, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 .

[5] Ale Russian: Going Public! Emma Roberts Holds Hands with Garrett Hedlund After Evan Peters Split. In: People . April 1, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 .