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My Take
Garrett Hedlund's filmography reads like an actor consistently choosing interesting over easy, and I admire that. He could have coasted on the leading-man package — the imposing 189 cm frame, the Troy and Tron: Legacy launchpads — but he kept drifting toward textured material like On the Road, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Mudbound. Add the music side, where he actually sang for Country Strong rather than faking it, and you get a performer who treats credibility as the whole point. I suspect the small-town Minnesota upbringing in Roseau explains the lack of vanity in his choices. He is rarely the loudest star in a cast, but reliably the most grounded presence on screen.
Overview
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), Georgia Rule (2007), 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).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Garrett Hedlund
- Name (Japanese)
- ギャレット・ヘドランド
- Reading
- ぎゃれっと・へどらんど
- Born
- September 3, 1984 (age 41)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Rat
- Origin
- Roseau, Minnesota, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 189 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / singer / model / musician / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Horizon High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.