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Garrett Hedlund
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Biography:Midwestern-born actor Garrett Hedlund debuted in the mid-2000s with a series of plum roles in A-list features. In the beginning, he seemed typecast as a well-rounded, average American young man, and made particularly strong impressions in that vein with his portrayal of high-school football hero Don Billingsley in Friday Night Lights, opposite Billy Bob Thornton. Yet Hedlund surprised and delighted his followers with a strong show of versatility thereafter, with effective portrayals as struggling musician Jack Mercer, who joins forces with his siblings to determine the reasons behind his mother's death, in John Singleton's urban drama Four Brothers (2005), and as Murtagh in the otherworldly fantasy Eragon (2006). In 2007, Hedlund essayed two very different roles: he joined Jane Fonda and Lindsay Lohan in the gentle rural drama Georgia Rule, then co-starred alongside Kevin Bacon in the one-man vigilante... Full Biography
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Murtagh (Garrett Hedlund, left) and Eragon (Ed Speleers) prepare for a momentous battle in "Eragon"
Garrett Hedlund, Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson amd Andre Benjamin in "Four Brothers"
Garrett Hedlund, Andre Benjamin, Mark Wahlberg and Tyrese Gibson in "Four Brothers"
Garrett Hedlund, Mark Wahlberg and Tyrese Gibson in "Four Brothers"
Tyrese Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, Andre Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund in "Four Brothers"
Lindsay Lohan and Garrett Hedlund in "Georgia Rule" (Universal Pictures)
Garrett Hedlund, center, in "Death Sentence" (20th Century Fox)
Filmography
Death Sentence (2007) Georgia Rule (2007) Eragon (2006) Four Brothers (2005) Friday Night Lights (2004) Troy (2004)
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