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Biography

American actor Zach Gilford, recognized for his portrayal of the soft-spoken Dillon Panthers quarterback Matt Saracen on the small-town drama Friday Night Lights, grew…more

Born

1/14/1982, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Birth Name

Zachary Gilford

Gender

Male

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Role
- Off The Map
  Dr. Tommy Fuller
  - S 1: Ep 13 There's a Lot to Miss About the Jungle
    4/6/11
  - S 1: Ep 12 Hold on Tight
    3/30/11
  - S 1: Ep 11 Everything's As It Should Be
    3/23/11
  - S 1: Ep 10 I'm Home
    3/16/11
  - S 1: Ep 9 There's Nothing to Fix
    3/9/11
  - + 8 More Credits
- Friday Night Lights
  Matt Saracen (Seasons 1-3, recurring otherwise)
  - S 5: Ep 13 Always
    2/9/11
  - S 5: Ep 9 Gut Check
    1/12/11
- Friday Night Lights
  Matt Saracen
  - S 4: Ep 1 East of Dillon
    10/28/09
  - S 3: Ep 12 Underdogs
    1/7/09
  - S 3: Ep 9 Game of the Week
    12/3/08
  - S 3: Ep 8 New York, New York
    11/19/08
  - S 3: Ep 7 Keeping Up Appearances
    11/12/08
  - + 41 More Credits
- Teen Choice Awards
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 11 Teen Choice Awards 2009
    8/10/09
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- Chelsea Lately
  Guest
  - S 5: Ep 6 Zach Gilford (3)
    1/11/11
- Channel One News
  Guest Star
  - S 4: Ep 183 May 20, 2009
    5/20/09
- Grey's Anatomy
  Lieutenant Charlie Lowell
  - S 5: Ep 23 Here's To Future Days (1)
    5/14/09
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Kevin Wilcox
  - S 6: Ep 11 Contagious
    1/11/05

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The Great TV Recast: The Hunger Games

By Tim Surette, Mar 23, 2012

What if The Hunger Games was made for TV and full of our favorite TV stars? We've picked out a some replacements for Katniss, Peeta, and more. read more
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Terra Nova's Debut Gets Pushed Back to This Fall

By Tim Surette, Mar 11, 2011

Plus: Eastbound and Down could end next year, Matt Saracen lands a back-up role in case Off the Map fails, Lost's Man in Black will fight zombies, and The Cape signs off tonight. read more

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- Zach is obsessed with the TV series Lost. Some of the other shows he watches are 24, Dexter, and reality shows such as So You Think You Can Dance, Hell's Kitchen, America's Next Top Model, and Survivor.
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- Among his favorite actors are Edward Norton and Paul Newman. He listens to a wide variety of music from The Killers to hip-hop to Ray LaMontagne to classic rock.
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- A Chicago native, Zach is a huge fan of basketball and the Chicago Bulls. "Pip 33", which was tattooed on his calf by a high school friend, is in honor of former Bulls forward Scottie Pippen. He also has a dog named Pippen.
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- Zach Gilford: (on his dream role) It'd be cool... to be the next 'Bourne'. It'd be cool to be an action hero, but I want to be that kind, where it's like more realistic. As much as I wouldn't mind fighting robots in Transformers, I think it would be more fun to do the thing where it technically is realistic. No CGI. Like Taken was such a cool movie.
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- Zach Gilford: I played a ton of sports. I'm not the most physically built person so I wasn't going to be the big athlete, and all my friends were. I played basketball, football, volleyball, baseball and all that growing up. I love it, I still play anytime I can. I love playing basketball.
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- Zach Gilford: I'm a late-night person, but not because I party. I've just always had trouble sleeping. When I was unemployed and living in New York, I couldn't shut my brain off. I'd think about girlfriends, rent, whether I had money to go home to Evanston, Illinois, for Thanksgiving.
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