Brett Dalton - wikipedia Brett Dalton Brett Dalton Dalton at the June 2015 Florida Supercon Brett Patrick Dalton ( 1983 - 01 - 07 ) January 7, 1983 ( age 34 ) San Jose, California Residence Los Angeles, California Occupation Actor Years active 2007 -- present Spouse ( s ) Melissa Trn ( m. 2015 ) Children Brett Patrick Dalton ( born January 7, 1983 ) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in ABC 's series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 4.3 Video games 5 References 6 External links Early life 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 Yale University in 2011. One of his Yale classmates was Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o. Career 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 takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following character Agent 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 ) and You Ca n't Take It With You ( Chautauqua Theater Company ). On May 16, 2014, Dalton was cast in indie drama film The Tourist, as Eric Lazard, 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. In 2015, Dalton voiced the character Mike in Until Dawn ( 2015 ), an action survival horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. In February, Dalton was nominated by the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers for his performance. Dalton stars in The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, a film released on January 20, 2017 by Walden Media and Vertical Church Films. Personal life Brett lives in Los Angeles with his wife Melissa Trn and their daughter, who was born in 2012. Filmography Dalton in 2014 Film Year Title Role Notes 1 : 00am Games Travis Short Film 2013 Sheets Short Film 2014 Beside Still Waters James 2016 Trust No One Victor Short Film 2017 The Resurrection of Gavin Stone Gavin Stone 2017 Lost in Florence Eric Lazard Television Year Title Role Notes 2007 Nurses Dr. Kurt Taylor Episode : `` Pilot '' 2012 Blue Bloods Phillip Gibson Episode : `` Collateral Damage '' 2012 Army Wives Beach Runner Episode : `` Fatal Reaction '' 2013 Killing Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln Television film 2013 -- 2016, 2017 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Grant Ward & Hive Main role - 53 episodes ; Guest Role - 5 episodes Teen Choice Award for Choice TV : Male Breakout Star ( 2014 ) Nominated -- Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Villain ( 2016 ) 2015 Jake and the Never Land Pirates Talon ( voice ) Episode : `` Flight of the Feathers / Captain Hookity Hook '' 2015 Robot Chicken Doctor Manhattan ( voice ) Episode : `` Cheese Puff Mountain '' 2016 -- 2017 Milo Murphy 's Law Brick ( voice ) 3 episodes Video games Year Title Role Notes 2015 Until Dawn Michael `` Mike '' Munroe Voice and motion capture performance Nominated -- National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Award for Best Supporting Role in a Drama References Jump up ^ `` California Birth Index, 1905 - 1995 '', Ancestry.com, California Department of Health Services access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ `` Brett Patrick Dalton ''. californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved September 30, 2016. ^ Jump up to : `` Brett Dalton : I 'm lucky to be on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ''. Huffington Post. September 23, 2013. Archived from the original on December 8, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013. Jump up ^ Marvel 's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. : Brett Dalton Interview -- Comic - Con 2013. IGN. July 20, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2016. Jump up ^ `` Brett Dalton joins ' physical comic book world ' in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ''. comicbookresources.com. September 17, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013. ^ Jump up to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziA03G76Wps Jump up ^ `` Exclusive : Joss Whedon 's red - hot S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot adds ' deadly ' new Agent ''. TV Line. November 27, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Meet the Cast : Brett Dalton ''. Retrieved November 27, 2013. Jump up ^ http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/brett-dalton-robin-tunney-tessa-thompson-american-sniper/ Jump up ^ http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2014/06/11/the-tourist-starring-brett-dalton-stana-katic-filming-in-florence-italy/ Jump up ^ http://navgtr.org/nominees/ Jump up ^ `` First trailer for faith - based comedy drama The Resurrection of Gavin Stone starring Brett Dalton ''. Flickering Myth. 2016 - 09 - 16. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 02. Jump up ^ `` Melissa Trn on Twitter ''. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 29. Jump up ^ `` ' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ' : Brett Dalton talks playing ' badass ' Ward ''. Los Angeles Times. October 16, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2014 - 07 - 01. Retrieved 2014 - 07 - 22. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brett Dalton. Brett Dalton on IMDb Brett Dalton on Twitter Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brett_Dalton&oldid=816667722 '' Categories : 1983 births Living people American male television actors American male film actors 21st - century American male actors American male voice actors American male video game actors Yale School of Drama alumni Male actors from San Jose, California University of California, Berkeley alumni Hidden categories : Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL Articles with hCards All articles lacking reliable references Articles lacking reliable references from February 2017 Articles lacking reliable references from October 2017 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Deutsch Español Français 한국어 Italiano მარგალური Nederlands 日本 語 Português Русский Suomi 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 22 December 2017, at 21 : 49. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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Question: who plays grant ward in marvel's agents of shield
Answer: Brett Patrick Dalton