Taylor Sheridan has written several films, including the screenplay for Sicario, for which he was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.
18 Facts About Taylor Sheridan
1.
2.
Taylor Sheridan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Hell or High Water, which was nominated for three other Oscars, including Best Picture.
3.
Taylor Sheridan wrote and directed the 2017 neo-Western crime film Wind River and wrote the 2018 sequel to Sicario.
4.
Taylor Sheridan is a co-creator of the Paramount Network television series Yellowstone and creator of its prequels 1883 and 1923, and he co-created the crime thriller Mayor of Kingstown.
5.
Taylor Sheridan created the crime drama Tulsa King, which he co-writes and showruns with Terence Winter.
6.
In 2021, Taylor Sheridan was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame.
7.
When Taylor Sheridan was eight years old, his mother insisted on buying a ranch in Cranfills Gap so that her children would "learn firsthand about the peaceful feeling of freedom in nature".
8.
Taylor Sheridan learned how to be a cowboy during his family's frequent visits to the Cranfills Gap ranch when he was growing up in the late 1980s.
9.
Taylor Sheridan later lived in New York City and Los Angeles during his time as an actor.
10.
Taylor Sheridan began his career in acting, appearing in small films and in recurring roles in television series like Veronica Mars, Walker, Texas Ranger and most notably, as David Hale in Sons of Anarchy.
11.
Taylor Sheridan made the transition into screenwriting after he turned 40.
12.
On September 15,2016, Deadline reported that Taylor Sheridan had been set by Sony Pictures and Escape Artists to script the American remake of the Matthias Schoenaerts drama-thriller film Disorder, a 2015 French film directed by Alice Winocour.
13.
In 2017, Taylor Sheridan created the television series Yellowstone starring Kevin Costner that has aired on the Paramount Network for five seasons running beginning June 20,2018.
14.
Taylor Sheridan wrote the sequel to Sicario, titled Sicario: Day of the Soldado, which was directed by Stefano Sollima and released in 2018.
15.
Taylor Sheridan has said that he looks for "absurdly simple" plots in order to focus solely on character.
16.
Taylor Sheridan has cited the Coen brothers, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry as influential to his writing.
17.
Taylor Sheridan is known for toying with the form and structure of a screenplay in his work.
18.
Taylor Sheridan has been married to actress and model Nicole Muirbrook since 2013.