Taylor Sheridan

Birth : 1970-05-21, Cranfills Gap, Texas, USA

History

Taylor Sheridan (born May 21, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is most known for his role as David Hale on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, and for writing the screenplay of the Denis Villeneuve-directed Sicario (2015), for which he received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplay for Hell or High Water (2016), starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, which was released in August 2016 and earned Sheridan an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Wind River, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen and the script for which he also penned, was released in August 2017. He is the brother of journalist John Gibler.

Profile

Movies

Finestkind

Producer

Two brothers are pulled into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston.

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Producer

A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Director

A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Screenplay

A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

Screenplay

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

Screenstory

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Writer

Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

Wind River

Writer

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

Wind River

Director

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

Hell or High Water

Writer

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Hell or High Water

Cowboy

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Sicario

Writer

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Vile

Director

A group of people awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls. The chemicals that the brain produces when in pain are collected by the devices, and when it collects a predetermined amount, the doors will be opened. In order to escape, they must hurt themselves and each other.

White Rush

Tug / Douglas

A group of young tourist couples comes across a drug deal gone bad while on vacation.

Her Costly Affair

Chris

A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.

Disorder

Screenplay

A war veteran is hired to protect the family of a wealthy businessman.

Fast

Screenplay

A former special forces badass is recruited by the DEA to lead a covert black ops team to take down drug dealers that are protected by the CIA.