24 Facts About Ty Burrell

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Tyler Gerald Burrell was born on August 22,1967 and is an American actor and comedian.

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Ty Burrell is best known for his role as Phil Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2011 and 2014 and five Screen Actors Guild Awards: one for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series in 2013 and four consecutive awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, shared with the cast from 2011 to 2014.

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Ty Burrell has had several roles in Broadway shows such as Macbeth and off-Broadway plays such as Burn This.

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Ty Burrell had starring roles on the television series Out of Practice and Back to You.

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Ty Burrell has appeared in films such as Evolution, Black Hawk Down, Dawn of the Dead, Muppets Most Wanted, and as Doc Samson in The Incredible Hulk.

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Tyler Gerald Ty Burrell was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, on August 22,1967, the son of teacher Sheri Rose and family therapist Gary Gerald Ty Burrell.

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Ty Burrell is mostly of English and German descent, though he discovered via Finding Your Roots that he is of African descent through his four times great-grandmother, a formerly enslaved girl from Tennessee who became a homesteader in Oregon.

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Ty Burrell grew up in Applegate, Oregon, near the California border.

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Ty Burrell attended Hidden Valley High School in Grants Pass, where he played football and was a lineman for the Hidden Valley Mustangs.

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Ty Burrell later attended Southern Oregon University in Ashland, graduating with a bachelor's degree in theatre arts in 1993.

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In 1999, Ty Burrell worked as a festival actor at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

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Ty Burrell has stated that for a period of time in graduate school, he lived out of his van to save money.

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Ty Burrell's first credited film roles were 2001's Evolution and Black Hawk Down.

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Ty Burrell subsequently appeared in the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, and in several stage roles.

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Ty Burrell was a co writer and actor in the original production of the offbeat comedy The Red Herring O' Happiness directed by Russell Dyball.

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Ty Burrell had a large role as realtor Phil Dunphy in the acclaimed ABC situation comedy Modern Family which is created by Christopher Lloyd and Steve Levitan.

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Ty Burrell received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his role, sharing the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with his co stars.

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Ty Burrell was the recipient of the individual SAG award in 2014, defeating Alec Baldwin, who had previously won the award seven years in a row.

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Ty Burrell appears as Phil in commercials for National Association of Realtors.

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In November 2014, Ty Burrell signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television to develop his own comedy projects.

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Ty Burrell was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series in July 2017.

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Ty Burrell owns The Eating Establishment, a restaurant in Park City, Utah, as well as two bars in Salt Lake City called Bar X and Beer Bar, located next to each other with interconnecting doors.

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In March 2010, Ty Burrell said that they had adopted a baby girl and another girl two years later.

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Ty Burrell is a self-described lifelong fan of the Oregon Ducks, Portland Trail Blazers, New York Mets, and the Los Angeles Rams.