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.'', as well as Detective Mark Trent in the
NBC procedural drama
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series ''
Found'', and Michael "Mike" Munroe in the 2015 video game ''
Until Dawn''. He also provided the voice and motion capture for
Freyr in ''
God of War: Ragnarök'' (2022).
Early life
Dalton was born January 7, 1983.
In 2001, he graduated 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
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for his undergraduate degree,
Dalton received a
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admi ...
from the
Yale School of Drama 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 and
Hive. 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.
In 2015, Dalton voiced the character Mike in ''
Until Dawn'' (2015), an
action survival horror
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video game
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developed by
Supermassive Games and published by
Sony Computer Entertainment
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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.
In 2021, Dalton was cast in a recurring role in
NBC drama series ''
Chicago Fire'' as Interim Lieutenant Jason Pelham.
Starting in 2022, Dalton provided the voice of The Witness in
''
The Witch Queen'' (2022), ''
Lightfall'' (2023), and ''
The Final Shape'' (2024), 3 major expansions for ''
Bungie
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'' 's 2017 first person shooter ''
Destiny 2''.
Personal life
Brett lived in Los Angeles with his wife Melissa Trn and their daughter, who was born in 2012.
The couple separated on August 1, 2019 and Dalton filed for divorce in November 2019.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
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1983 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male video game actors
American male voice actors
Male actors from San Jose, California
University of California, Berkeley alumni
David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
21st-century American male actors
Westmont High School (California) alumni