Brett Patrick Dalton is an American actor and voice actor. He is best
known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in ABC's series Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Michael Munroe in the 2015 video game Until
Dawn.Dalton graduated in 2001 from Westmont High School in Campbell,
California, where he became interested in acting after auditioning for
a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and where he was
California Scholarship Federation president and associated student
body president. He played the lead in My Favorite Year. After studying
at University of California, Berkeley for his undergraduate degree,
Dalton received a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in
2011. One of his Yale classmates was Oscar winner Lupita
Nyong'o.[better source needed]In November 2012, he was cast in a
starring role in the Joss Whedon TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D as
Agent Grant Ward. The series follows character Phil Coulson and his
small team of agents, Dalton's character among them. Dalton's other
television credits include Blue Bloods, Army Wives, and National
Geographic Channel's Killing Lincoln, a Tony and Ridley Scott
Production. His theatre credits include Passion Play, Romeo and
Juliet, and Happy Now? (Yale Repertory); Sweet Bird of Youth and Demon
Dreams (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Macbeth (Macbeth) You Can't
Take It With You (Chautauqua Theater Company), and The Understudy
(Westport Country Playhouse).On May 16, 2014, Dalton was cast in indie
drama film Lost in Florence as Eric Lombard, a heartbroken former
college football star who gets in over his head with a dangerous
Florentine sport and alluring local woman, alongside Stana Katic and
Emily Atack.
known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in ABC's series Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Michael Munroe in the 2015 video game Until
Dawn.Dalton graduated in 2001 from Westmont High School in Campbell,
California, where he became interested in acting after auditioning for
a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and where he was
California Scholarship Federation president and associated student
body president. He played the lead in My Favorite Year. After studying
at University of California, Berkeley for his undergraduate degree,
Dalton received a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in
2011. One of his Yale classmates was Oscar winner Lupita
Nyong'o.[better source needed]In November 2012, he was cast in a
starring role in the Joss Whedon TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D as
Agent Grant Ward. The series follows character Phil Coulson and his
small team of agents, Dalton's character among them. Dalton's other
television credits include Blue Bloods, Army Wives, and National
Geographic Channel's Killing Lincoln, a Tony and Ridley Scott
Production. His theatre credits include Passion Play, Romeo and
Juliet, and Happy Now? (Yale Repertory); Sweet Bird of Youth and Demon
Dreams (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Macbeth (Macbeth) You Can't
Take It With You (Chautauqua Theater Company), and The Understudy
(Westport Country Playhouse).On May 16, 2014, Dalton was cast in indie
drama film Lost in Florence as Eric Lombard, a heartbroken former
college football star who gets in over his head with a dangerous
Florentine sport and alluring local woman, alongside Stana Katic and
Emily Atack.
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