Taylor Sheridan

Sheridan Taylor Gibler Jr born May 21 1970 known professionally as Taylor Sheridan is an American writer producer director and actor He is best known as the cocreator of the television series Yellowstone and creator of its prequels 1883 2021 and 1923 2022 Sheridan has written several films including the screenplay for Sicario 2015 for which he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Hell or High Water 2016 which was nominated for three other Oscars including Best Picture Sheridan also wrote and directed the 2017 neoWestern crime film Wind River and wrote the 2018 sequel to Sicario Sheridan got his start portraying Danny Boyd in Veronica Mars 20052007 as well as portraying David Hale in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy He has since created several series for Paramount including the crime thriller Mayor of Kingstown and the crime drama Tulsa King which he cowrites with Terence Winter the espionage thriller Lioness and the drama Landman In 2021 Sheridan was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame In 2024 Sheridan was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame He is an honorary graduate at Texas Christian University Description above from the Wikipedia article Taylor Sheridan licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia