Zach Gilford

Zach Gilford is best known for his starring role as Matt Saracen on the popular NBC series Friday Night Lights. Since the series wrapped its fifth and final season in 2011, Gilford has gone on to star in a wide array of film and television projects.

Gilford graduated from Northwestern University, where he starred in theater productions of Equus and The Laramie Project. A Chicago native, Gilford spends his free time leading backpacking, ice climbing and diving expeditions in Alaska, New Zealand and Australia.

Gilford made his feature film debut starring in Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter, which was nominated for the 2007 Gotham Award for Best Ensemble. His television credits include ABC's Off the Map and Grey's Anatomy, and NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Gilford starred in 20th Century Fox's "handheld horror" film Devil's Due, as the husband of a woman who becomes pregnant with a demon child. He also starred in Lionsgate's The Last Stand, opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in the indie drama In Our Nature, with John Slattery, Gabrielle Union and Jena Malone, which premiered at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival.

Gilford's other film credits include the indie drama Crazy Kind of Love, with Virginia Madsen and Sam Trammell; Roadside Attractions' Answers to Nothing, with Dane Cook; the indie Dare, opposite Emmy Rossum; Super, opposite Ellen Page and Rainn Wilson; Fox Searchlight Pictures' Post Grad, opposite Alexis Bledel, Michael Keaton and Carol Burnett; and Rise: Blood Hunter, opposite Lucy Liu.

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