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Zach Gilford
Highest Rated: 76% The Last Winter (2006)
Lowest Rated: 8% Post Grad (2009)
Birthday: Jan 14, 1982
Birthplace: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Actor Zach Gilford, a native of Evanston, IL and graduate of Northwestern University, where he starred in theater productions of "Equus" and "The Laramie Project," had his first starring role on the critically acclaimed, but under-watched "Friday Night Lights" (NBC, 2006-07), Peter Berg's television adaptation of his 2004 film about life in a small Texas town fixated on its winning high school football team. In the television version, Gilford played backup quarterback Matt Saracen, a 16-year-old kid trying to deal with his absentee mother and his father serving in Iraq, who is thrust into the spotlight during the first game of the season when the team's starting quarterback (Scott Porter) suffers a serious injury. Gilford drew upon his own gridiron experiences when he played ball at Evanston Township High School, where he suffered from an injury that led him to discover acting. Prior to his stint on "Friday Night Lights," Gilford appeared in an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ), then had a small part in his first feature film, "The Last Winter" (2005), an indie thriller about the surviving members of an oil drilling crew struggling to traverse the Northern Alaskan landscape after the rest of the team loses their grip on reality.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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62% |
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There's Something Wrong with the Children | Ben (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet |
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The Disappearance of Cari Farver | Dave Kroupa (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boy Genius | Gordon (Character) | - | 2019 |
58% |
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The Purge: Anarchy | Shane (Character) | $71.5M | 2014 |
21% |
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Devil's Due | Zach McCall (Character) | $15.8M | 2014 |
61% |
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The Last Stand | Jerry Bailey (Character) | $12.0M | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Crazy Kind of Love | Matthew (Character) | - | 2012 |
47% |
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In Our Nature | Seth (Character) | - | 2012 |
9% |
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Answers to Nothing | Evan (Character) | $22.0K | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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The River Why | Gus (Character) | - | 2010 |
61% |
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Dare | Johnny Drake (Character) | - | 2009 |
8% |
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Post Grad | Adam (Character) | $6.4M | 2009 |
76% |
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The Last Winter | Maxwell (Character) | $32.9K | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Classmates | Professor Walsmith (Character) | - |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 49% | After Midnight | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds |
Elias Voit (Character), Director |
2022-2024 |
90% | 81% | The Fall of the House of Usher | Young Roderick Usher (Character) | 2023 |
86% | 56% | The Midnight Club | Mark (Character) | 2022 |
87% | 79% | Midnight Mass | Riley Flynn (Character) | 2021 |
86% | 77% | Good Girls | Gregg (Guest Star) | 2018-2021 |
24% | 60% | L.A.'s Finest | Ben Walker (Character) | 2019-2020 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | James Miller (Guest Star) | 2005 2019 |
No Score Yet | 86% | This Close | Danny (Character) | 2018-2019 |
61% | 88% | The Family | Danny (Character) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Drunk History | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014-2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2014 |
21% | 43% | The Mob Doctor | Dr. Brett Robinson (Character) | 2012-2013 |
18% | 67% | Off the Map | Tommy Fuller (Character) | 2011 |
97% | 93% | Friday Night Lights |
Matt Saracen (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2006-2011 |
84% | 73% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |