Brett Dalton

## Cast Member

**Brett Patrick Dalton** is an American actor who portrays Grant Ward and Hive on Marvel's *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*.

## Biography

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.

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 Nurses (failed pilot for Fox), 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 Can'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.

## Trivia

* Received an MFA in acting from Yale School of Drama in 2011.
* Has a daughter, Sylvia, born in 2012 with girlfriend Melissa Trn.
* Is good friends with Lupita Nyong'o. They attended the same school and class together.
* He attended high school in San Jose, college at the University of California at Berkeley, and graduate school at the Yale School of Drama.
* Brett is known for live-Tweeting puns during the broadcasts of Agents of SHIELD. His puns have also spawned the website brettspunfund.com which provides fans with a history of his puns and link to one of the actor's favorite charities, Habitat for Humanity.

## Filmography

Film
 2013
 2014

## References

1. ↑ http://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/brett\_patrick\_dalton\_born\_1983\_15769203
2. ↑ According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/23/brett-dalton-agents-of-shield\_n\_3976320.html
4. ↑ http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/07/20/marvels-agents-of-shield-brett-dalton-interview-comic-con-2013
5. ↑ http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=47940
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziA03G76Wps
7. ↑ http://tvline.com/2012/11/27/shield-tv-show-casts-brett-dalton/
8. ↑ http://www.tv.com/shows/nurses-2007/
9. ↑ http://www.ctv.ca/MarvelsAgentsofShield/Bios/Brett-Dalton.aspx
10. ↑ http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/brett-dalton-robin-tunney-tessa-thompson-american-sniper/
11. ↑ http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2014/06/11/the-tourist-starring-brett-dalton-stana-katic-filming-in-florence-italy/
12. ↑ http://navgtr.org/nominees/