Taylor Sheridan

American filmmaker and actor (born 1970)

Taylor Sheridan

Born|

Sheridan Taylor Gibler Jr.

(1970-05-21) May 21, 1970 (age 54)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.

Education| Texas State University
Occupations|

* Writer
* producer
* director
* actor

Years active| 1995–present
Spouse|

Nicole Muirbrook

(m. 2013)​

Children| 1
Notes

[1]

Sheridan Taylor Gibler Jr. (born May 21, 1970[2][1][3]), known professionally as Taylor Sheridan, is an American writer, producer, director and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the television series Yellowstone and creator of its prequels 1883 (2021) and 1923 (2022).

Sheridan has written several films, including the screenplay for Sicario (2015), for which he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Hell or High Water (2016), which was nominated for three other Oscars, including Best Picture. Sheridan also wrote and directed the 2017 neo-Western crime film Wind River and wrote the 2018 sequel to Sicario.

Sheridan got his start portraying Danny Boyd in Veronica Mars (2005–2007) as well as portraying David Hale in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. He also co-created the crime thriller Mayor of Kingstown, and created the crime drama Tulsa King, which he co-writes with Terence Winter.[4]

In 2021, Sheridan was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame.[5]

## Early life

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Sheridan was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[6] Several news articles have reported that he grew up on a ranch in Cranfills Gap, Texas, but he was raised in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of a cardiologist.[6] His cowboy identity comes from his mother, who was originally from Waco and loved visiting her grandparents' ranch in that area.[7] When Sheridan was eight years old, his mother insisted on buying a ranch in Cranfills Gap so that her children would "learn firsthand about the peaceful feeling of freedom in nature".[7] Sheridan learned how to be a cowboy during his family's frequent visits to the Cranfills Gap ranch when he was growing up in the late 1980s.[6] Meanwhile, he attended and graduated from R. L. Paschal High School, where he was "the rare weekend wrangler who was also a theater kid".[7]

After Sheridan dropped out of Texas State University, he moved to Austin, where he mowed lawns and painted houses. While looking for jobs in a shopping mall, Sheridan met a talent scout, who offered him the chance to go to Chicago and pursue an acting career. He later lived in New York City and Los Angeles during his time as an actor.[8][9]

## Career

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Sheridan began his career in acting, appearing in small films and in recurring roles in television series like Veronica Mars, Walker, Texas Ranger and most notably, as David Hale in Sons of Anarchy. He made the transition into screenwriting after he turned 40.[10] His first film as a screenwriter was Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve.[11] It revolves around Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), an FBI agent who is enlisted to a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel.[12][13] It also starred Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. The film received critical acclaim, with a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes,[14] and received a number of nominations, including a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Sheridan.[15][16]

Sheridan wrote Comancheria after Sicario. Comancheria sold first but was stuck in development for quite a few years, appearing on the Black List in 2012. It was later retitled Hell or High Water and was released in August 2016, starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, and again received critical acclaim.[17][18] For his screenplay, Sheridan received a large amount of awards attention, earning BAFTA, Golden Globe Award, and Academy Award nominations.[19][20]

The low-budget horror film Vile is credited as Sheridan's first film, but he does not consider the film his directorial debut, stating in a 2017 Rotten Tomatoes interview:

> I would say this [Wind River] is my feature debut. A friend of mine raised — I don't know what he raised — 20 grand or something, and cast his buddies, and wrote this bad horror movie, that I told him not to direct. He was going to direct it and produce it, and he started and freaked out, and called and said, "Can you help me?" I said, "Yeah, I'll try." I kind of kept the ship pointed straight, and they went off and edited, and did what they did. I think it's generous to call me the director. I think he was try  [sic] to say thank you, in some way. It was an excellent opportunity to point a camera and learn some lessons that actually benefited me on Wind River.[21]

His second feature as director, and third as screenwriter, Wind River, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2017. The film follows an FBI agent (Olsen) and a veteran game tracker (Renner), investigating a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation. The Weinstein Company had acquired the distribution rights during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival,[22] but dropped the film prior to the Sundance premiere.[23] However, the company later finalized its deal to distribute it.[24] Wind River was widely released in the United States on August 18, 2017, following a brief limited release.[25] Following Sicario and Hell or High Water, Wind River is the third installment of Sheridan's trilogy of "the modern-day American frontier".[26]

On September 15, 2016, Deadline reported that Sheridan had been set by Sony Pictures and Escape Artists to script the American remake of the Matthias Schoenaerts drama-thriller film Disorder, a 2015 French film directed by Alice Winocour. Escape Artists' Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Tony Shaw were scheduled to produce the remake and David Beaubaire to oversee it for the studio.[27] James Mangold was going to direct.

In 2017, Sheridan created the television series Yellowstone starring Kevin Costner that has aired on the Paramount Network for five seasons running beginning June 20, 2018.[28]

Sheridan wrote the sequel to Sicario, titled Sicario: Day of the Soldado, which was directed by Stefano Sollima and released in 2018.[29] More recently, his overall deal with ViacomCBS was renewed.[30]

In May 2019, it was announced Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film Those Who Wish Me Dead with Sheridan as director.[31] The film had a theatrical debut internationally in South Korea on May 5, 2021.[32] In the United States, it was released on May 14, 2021.[33]

## Style

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As an actor, Sheridan has explained that the amount of expositional dialogue he read for television caused him to form an "allergy to exposition" in his writing. He has also said that he looks for "absurdly simple" plots in order to focus solely on character.[34] He has cited the Coen brothers, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry as influential to his writing.[35]

## Personal life

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Sheridan has been married to actress and model Nicole Muirbrook since 2013. The pair have a son.[36][37] They currently reside in Weatherford, Texas.[6]

In May 2021, a buyer group represented by Sheridan purchased the 350,000-acre 6666 Ranch in north central Texas.[38][39]

## Filmography

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### Film

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer

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2011  | Vile | Yes  | No  | No
2015  | Sicario | No  | Yes  | No
2016  | Hell or High Water | No  | Yes  | No
2017  | Wind River | Yes  | Yes  | No
2018  | Sicario: Day of the Soldado | No  | Yes  | No
2021  | Without Remorse | No  | Yes  | No
Those Who Wish Me Dead | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
2023  | Finestkind | No  | No  | Yes

Acting roles

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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2003  | White Rush | Tug / Douglas  |
2016  | Hell or High Water | Cowboy  | Cameo[40]
2018  | 12 Strong | Brian  |

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Creator  | Director  | Writer  | Executive
Producer  | Notes

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2018–present  | Yellowstone | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2019–present  | The Last Cowboy | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  |
2021–present  | Mayor of Kingstown | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2021–2022  | 1883 | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | 10 episodes
2022–present  | Tulsa King | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
2022–present  | 1923 | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  |
2023–present  | Lioness | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2023  | Lawmen: Bass Reeves | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | 8 episodes
2024  | Landman | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  |

Acting roles

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1995  | Walker, Texas Ranger | Vernon  | Episode: "War Zone"
1996  | Her Costly Affair | Chris  | Television film
1997  | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Corporal Winters  | Episode: "A Matter of Conscience"
1999  | Party of Five | Counterguy  | Episode: "Haunted"
2000  | Time of Your Life | Connor  | Episode: "The Time They Decided to Date"
2001  | V.I.P. | Dave  | Episode: "A.I. Highrise"
2002  | Strong Medicine | Tucker  | Episode: "Positive"
2003  | The Guardian | Tim Dohanic  | Episode: "Back in the Ring"
10-8: Officers on Duty | Shooter  | Episode: "Brothers in Arms"
2004  | Star Trek: Enterprise | Jareb  | Episode: "Chosen Realm"
NYPD Blue | Tim Lewis  | Episode: "Old Yeller"
2005  | CSI: NY | Joel Banks  | Episode: "Supply & Demand"
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Evan Peters  | Episode: "Secrets and Flies"
2005–2007  | Veronica Mars | Danny Boyd  | 5 episodes
2008–2010  | Sons of Anarchy | David Hale | 21 episodes
2011  | NCIS: Los Angeles | Navy Captain Jennings  | Episode: "Enemy Within"
2018–present  | Yellowstone | Travis Wheatley  | 9 episodes
2022  | 1883 | Charles Goodnight | 2 episodes
2024  | Special Ops: Lioness | Cody Spears  | 2 episodes

## Awards and nominations

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Year  | Title  | Awards/Nominations

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2015  | Sicario | Nominated – Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
2016  | Hell or High Water | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
Nominated – Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay
Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Writing
Nominated – Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated – AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay
2017  | Wind River | Nominated – Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding First-Time Feature Film
2022  | Yellowstone | Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Nominated – Producers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama
1883 | Nominated – Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama
2023  | Special Ops: Lioness | Nominated – 2023 Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards for Best Writer

## References

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1. ^ a b "Taylor Sheridan - Actor". TV Insider. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
2. ^ Wall Street Journal: Paramount Can’t Say No to the Man Behind ‘Yellowstone’: $50,000 a Week for His Ranch, $25 Per Cow. May 5, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
3. ^ Kendall, Brian (November 3, 2022). "Taylor Sheridan Is Living His Dream". Fort Worth Magazine. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
4. ^ White, Peter (December 6, 2021). "Sylvester Stallone Set To Star In Taylor Sheridan & Terence Winter Drama Series 'Kansas City' For Paramount+ From 101 Studios & MTV Ent. Studios". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
5. ^ "Inductees". Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
6. ^ a b c d Kendall, Brian (November 3, 2022). "Taylor Sheridan Is Living His Dream". Fort Worth Magazine. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
7. ^ a b c Corcoran, Michael (December 24, 2020). "Yellowstone Creator Taylor Sheridan Learned To Cowboy in Small-Town Cranfills Gap". Texas Highways. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
8. ^ Ealy, Charles. "One filmmaker's road from a Texas ranch to the red carpet in Cannes". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
9. ^ Barnes, Brooks (February 9, 2017). "Taylor Sheridan on His Oscar-Nominated Screenplay for 'Hell or High Water'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
10. ^ DP/30: Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan. October 6, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2017 - via YouTube.
11. ^ "Taylor Sheridan On The Drug War And His Evolution From 'Sons Of Anarchy' Actor To 'Sicario' Screenwriter". Uproxx. March 3, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
12. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (April 19, 2012). "Ex-'Sons Of Anarchy' Actor Taylor Sheridan Sells Script To Sidney Kimmel Entertainment". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
13. ^ Tapley, Kristopher (October 28, 2015). "'Sicario' Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan on the 'Answerless Problem' of the Drug War". Variety. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
14. ^ "Sicario", Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved May 22, 2024
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16. ^ McNary, Dave (January 6, 2016). "'The Martian,' 'Straight Outta Compton' Land Writers Guild Nominations". Variety. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
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18. ^ "Hell or High Water", Metacritic, retrieved January 29, 2017
19. ^ Brown, Tracy (December 12, 2016). "Golden Globes 2017: Complete list of winners". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
20. ^ Shoard, Catherine (January 10, 2017). "Bafta nominations 2017: La La Land dances on but Arrival and Nocturnal Animals hot on its heels". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
21. ^ Ryan Fujitani (July 31, 2017). "Taylor Sheridan's Favourite Films". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
22. ^ "Cannes: Weinstein Co. Nabs Jeremy Renner Drama 'Wind River'". The Hollywood Reporter. May 14, 2016.
23. ^ Siegel, Tatiana (January 9, 2017). "Sundance: Weinstein Company to No Longer Distribute Jeremy Renner's 'Wind River' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
24. ^ Thompson, Anne (January 27, 2017). "Sundance Deal Scorecard: Why 2017 Festival Sales Are in Overdrive". Indiewire. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
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26. ^ Thompson, Anne (June 21, 2018). "'Sicario: Day of the Soldado': Benicio Del Toro Says It's Better Than The Doors' First Album". IndieWire. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
27. ^ "'Sicario' Scribe Taylor Sheridan To Script French Remake 'Disorder'". Deadline Hollywood. September 15, 2016. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
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29. ^ "'Sicario' writer Taylor Sheridan discusses the idea behind the sequel". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
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32. ^ Lee, Jae-Lim (May 4, 2021). "Jolie journeys through real fire in 'Those Who Wish Me Dead'". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
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## External links

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* Taylor Sheridan at IMDb

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Works by Taylor Sheridan

Films directed|

* Vile (2011)
* Wind River (2017, also written by)
* Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021, also written by)

Films written|

* Sicario (2015)
* Hell or High Water (2016)
* Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
* Without Remorse (2021)

TV series created|

* Mayor of Kingstown (2021–present)
* Tulsa King (2022–present)
* Lioness (2023–present)
* Landman (2024)

| Yellowstone franchise|

* Yellowstone (2018–24)
* 1883 (2021–22)
* 1923 (2022–present)

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Awards for Taylor Sheridan

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Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay

* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* John Ridley (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Taylor Sheridan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (2018)
* Rian Johnson (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Cord Jefferson (2023)

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Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Screenplay

* Paul Thomas Anderson (1997)
* Andrew Niccol (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Cameron Crowe (2000)
* Alejandro Amenábar / David Lynch (2001)
* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Charlie Kaufman (2004)
* George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2005)
* Guillermo del Toro (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Jim Reardon and Andrew Stanton (2008)
* Quentin Tarantino (2009)
* Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Woody Allen (2011)
* Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Taylor Sheridan (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Boots Riley (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Michael Sarnoski and Vanessa Block (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* David Hemingson (2023)

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San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Screenplay

* James L. Brooks (1997)
* Peter Howitt (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Cameron Crowe (2000)
* Richard Kelly (2001)
* Jill Sprecher and Karen Sprecher (2002)
* Peter Mullan (2003)
* Mike Leigh (2004)
* Shane Black (2005)
* Karen Moncrieff (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Tom McCarthy (2008)
* Quentin Tarantino (2009)
* Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, and Sam Bain (2010)
* Woody Allen (2011)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Dan Gilroy (2014)
* Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi (2015)
* Taylor Sheridan (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Bo Burnham (2018)
* Noah Baumbach (2019)
* Lee Isaac Chung (2020)
* Fran Kranz (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023)

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St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

Screenplay
2004–2009|

* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Peter Morgan (2008)
* Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2009)

Original Screenplay
2010–present|

* David Seidler (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Mark Boal (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Taylor Sheridan (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (2017)
* Adam McKay (2018)
* Noah Baumbach (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Fran Kranz (2021)
* Martin McDonagh / Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023)

Adapted Screenplay
2010–present|

* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (2011)
* Tony Kushner / David O. Russell (2012)
* John Ridley (2013)
* Gillian Flynn (2014)
* Drew Goddard (2015)
* Whit Stillman (2016)
* Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2017)
* Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott (2018)
* Steven Zaillian (2019)
* Charlie Kaufman (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Rebecca Lenkiewicz (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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