Zach Gilford - Actor

Zach Gilford

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Actor

Birth Name: Zach Gilford

Birth Date: January 14, 1982

Age: 43 years old

Birth Place: Evanston, Illinois

Spouses: Kiele Sanchez

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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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Kiele Sanchez and Zach Gilford attend the 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on March 13, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Zach Gilford as Elias Voit in Criminal Minds: Evolution, episode 4, season 17Zach Gilford as Elias Voit in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution' Season 17 Episode 5 'Conspiracy vs. Theory'Zach Gilford for 'Friday Night Lights'Zach Gilford as Elias Voit and Joe Mantegna as David Rossi in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution' Season 17 Finale 'Save the Children''FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS,' Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins, Minka Kelly as Lyla Garrity, Scott Porter as Jason Street, Zach Gilford as Matt Saracen, Kyle Chandler as Eric Taylor, Gaius Charles as Smash Williams, 'Pilot', 2006-2011A.J. Cook as Jennifer ‘JJ’ Jareau, Zach Gilford as Elias Voit and Joe Mantegna as David Rossi in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution' Season 17 Episode 1 'Gold Star'Zach Gilford as Elias Jasper Voit in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution' Season 17 Episode 1 - 'Gold Star'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution' - 'Dead End'Zach Gilford and Kate Siegel in 'Midnight Mass'Zach Gilford as Riley Flynn in 'Midnight Mass'Zach GilfordZach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Silas Weir Mitchell and Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford and Nathan Ray Clark in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution' - 'Moose'Zach Gilford in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution'Zach Gilford

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