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John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American actor, known for his role as Drew Carey's cross-dressing brother on The Drew Carey Show, and for his role as Norm, the unassuming husband of Margie Gunderson (Frances McDormand) in Fargo. In the fall of 2003, he starred in the CBS show The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire, with Randy Quaid, Chris Penn, Mare Winningham, Elizabeth McGovern, and Ann Cusack. The show was cancelled after only a few episodes. He also had a recurring role in the HBO show Carnivàle, playing escaped convict Varlyn Stroud. Lynch appeared as a district attorney in the CBS series Close to Home and as NASA official Bob Gilruth in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon. Lynch appeared in the 2003 thriller Gothika and the 2007 biopic Zodiac.

Known For: Acting

Born: Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1963-08-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1993	Grumpy Old Men	Moving Man	66
2	1995	In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice	The Major	40
3	1996	Fargo	Norm Gunderson	79
4	1996	Voice from the Grave	Prosecutor O'Gane	58
5	1996	A Friend's Betrayal	Mr. Franks	47
6	1996	Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal		50
7	1997	Dead Men Can't Dance	Plonder	37
8	1997	Volcano	Stan Olber	59
9	1997	Face/Off	Prison Guard Walton	70
10	1997	A Thousand Acres	Ken LaSalle	58
11	1998	Mercury Rising	Martin Lynch	63
12	1998	The Naked Man	Driver	40
13	1999	Late Last Night	Sgt. Van Wyck	53
14	2000	Restaurant	John English	51
15	2001	Bubble Boy	Mr. Livingston	57
16	2002	The Good Girl	Jack Field, Your Store Manager	62
17	2002	Bug	Wallace Gregory	72
18	2002	Par 6	Dour O'Dowell	0
19	2003	Gothika	Sheriff Ryan	61
20	2004	Catch That Kid	Mr. Hartman	56
21	2005	Mozart and the Whale	Gregory	62
22	2007	Zodiac	Arthur Leigh Allen	75
23	2007	Things We Lost in the Fire	Howard Glassman	66
24	2008	The Prince of Motor City	Paul Riley	0
25	2008	Gran Torino	Barber Martin	80
26	2009	Love Happens	Walter	58
27	2010	Hesher	Larry	68
28	2010	Shutter Island	Deputy Warden McPherson	82
29	2011	Crazy, Stupid, Love.	Bernie	73
30	2012	Lay the Favorite	Dave Greenberg	52
31	2013	Highland Park	Rory	53
32	2014	The Pretty One	Frank	61
33	2014	Camp X-Ray	Col. Drummond	67
34	2015	Hot Pursuit	Captain Emmett	57
35	2016	The Invitation	Pruitt	64
36	2024	Outlaw Posse	Carson	53
37	2024	Babes	Dr. Morris	60
38		She Rides Shotgun		0
39	1995	The Cure	Skipper #1	79
40	1996	Beautiful Girls	Frank Womack	67
41	1996	The Fan	Shopkeeper	60
42	1996	Feeling Minnesota	Cop	54
43	1999	The Minus Man	Bartender (uncredited)	54
44	1999	Pushing Tin	Doctor Freeze (uncredited)	59
45	1999	Anywhere but Here	Jack Irwin	60
46	1999	Tuesdays with Morrie	Walter	73
47	2000	The Next Best Thing	Abbie's Lawyer	53
48	2000	Waking the Dead	Father Mileski	61
49	2000	Gone in Sixty Seconds	Impound Manager	64
50	2002	Live from Baghdad	Josh Holliman	67
51	2003	Confidence	Grant Ashby	63
52	2005	Freak Weather	Ed	50
53	2006	Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World	Stewart	53
54	2007	Full of It	Mr. Leonard	53
55	2010	Sympathy for Delicious	Evangelist Carroll	57
56	2011	Paul	Moses Buggs	67
57	2014	Hoke	Bill Henderson	55
58	2015	Ted 2	Tom Jessup	63
59	2016	Miracles from Heaven	Pastor Scott	75
60	2016	The Architect	Conway	45
61	2016	Shangri-La Suite	Colonel Tom Parker	58
62	2016	The Founder	Mac McDonald	71
63	2016	Jackie	Lyndon B. Johnson	65
64	2018	The White Orchid	Sheriff Mann	56
65	2018	Anything	Early Landry	55
66	2018	Private Life	Charlie Grimes	69
67	2019	The Highwaymen	Lee Simmons	67
68	2020	Be Absolute for Death		0
69	2020	Kiss Me Kosher!	Ron Shalev	60
70	2020	The Trial of the Chicago 7	David Dellinger	77
71		Fade to Black	Wayne	0
72	2025	Sorry, Baby	Pete	100
73		Cattywampus	Barry	0
74		The Whisper Man		0
75	2021	American Horror Stories: Drive In	Larry Bitterman	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1993	Frasier	Franklin	77
2	1995	Star Trek: Voyager	Gerald Moss	78
3	1995	The Drew Carey Show	Steve Carey	66
4	1995	The Client	Frank	60
5	1995	Murder One	Officer Carl Bickley	78
6	1996	Life's Work		60
7	1997	The Practice	Dr. Robert Larson	77
8	1997	The Visitor	Joe York	60
9	1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Bob Gilruth	81
10	1998	L.A. Doctors	Gus (uncredited)	70
11	1999	Family Law		82
12	1999	The West Wing	Jack Reese	83
13	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Buddy Arnold	76
14	2002	Monk	Kurt Pressman	79
15	2003	Carnivàle	Varlyn Stroud	79
16	2003	The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire		0
17	2005	American Dad!	Acl-Lou / Mr. Simms / Monkey (voice)	70
18	2005	Close to Home		59
19	2005	Close to Home	Steve Sharpe	59
20	2006	Big Love	Officer Chuck Tuttle	69
21	2007	K-Ville	Captain James Embry	68
22	2009	Lie to Me	Mr. Reed	79
23	2010	The Glades		70
24	2010	The Glades	Mike Ogletree	70
25	2010	The Walking Dead	Eastman	81
26	2011	Body of Proof	Det. Bud Morris	70
27	2011	American Horror Story	John Wayne Gacy	81
28	2011	American Horror Story	Twisty the Clown	81
29	2011	American Horror Story	Benjamin Richter	81
30	2011	Talking Dead	Self	73
31	2012	Veep	Lloyd Hennick	74
32	2013	The Americans	Fred	79
33	2013	Do No Harm	Will Hayes	61
34	2014	Manhattan	Daniel Ellis	71
35	2016	Billions	Mr. Gilbert	77
36	2016	Channel Zero	John Sleator	71
37	2018	Crawford	Owen	55
38	2018	One Dollar	Bud Carl	48
39	2018	The Good Cop	Sherman Smalls	62
40	2019	Perfect Harmony	Pastor Magnus	61
41	2019	Evil	Henry Stick	78
42	2020	Big Sky	Wolfgang 'Wolf' Legarski	72
43	2020	Big Sky	Rick Legarski	72
44	2021	American Horror Stories	Larry Bitterman	78
45	2022	Gaslit	L. Patrick Gray	70
46	2023	White House Plumbers	John Mitchell	63
47	2024	Elsbeth	Judge Edwin Dousant	73
48	2025	Ballard	Thomas Laffont	0