He then branched out to film; in the early years of his career, he was often cast in supporting villainous roles, most notably in Scream 2 , Go , Gone in 60 Seconds , A Man Apart , and The Girl Next Door Olyphant was a recurring guest star in season two of the FX legal thriller Damages From to , Olyphant starred as Deputy U.
He has also had notable guest appearances in numerous television sitcoms including The Office , The Mindy Project , and The Grinder β , for which he won a Critics' Choice Award. He also starred in the Netflix comedy series Santa Clarita Diet β Olyphant was born in Honolulu , Hawaii , but moved to Modesto, California at the age of two.
Olyphant is a descendant of the Vanderbilt family of New York. His paternal fourth great-grandfather was family patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt. David Olyphant, was born in Scotland and served as director-general of the Southern hospitals during the American Revolutionary War. Olyphant attended Modesto's Fred C. Beyer High School. Instead, he opted to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Then I'd occasionally go back.
In his final year of college, he had taken an acting class as an elective at UC Irvine and found it "really enjoyable". Olyphant's first paid acting job was in a WB television pilot based on 77 Sunset Strip. Phyllis Huffman cast him in the role but he did not have an opportunity to meet the show's producer, Clint Eastwood , who quit days before filming began.
Olyphant made his feature film debut in The First Wives Club as an eager young director who attempts to cast Elise Elliot Goldie Hawn β who thinks she will be playing the leading lady β in the role of the elderly mother.
