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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Biography

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MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive producer
Nationality American
Birth April 22, 1966 (Seattle, Washington – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
The charismatic Jeffrey Dean Morgan was initially destined for a sporting career, and only pursued studies until university to be able to play basketball. When he injured his knee, he left college with the idea of ​​starting to paint and write. After starting a brief career as a graphic designer, he took a trip to Los Angeles, from which he never left. In 1991, his first film, Uncaged , went unnoticed, but allowed him to take his first steps as an actor and opened the doors to the casting of numerous series where he appeared, such as Burning zone, imminent threat (1996), in which he appears in ten episodes out of nineteen.

From 2000, the movement accelerated for Jeffrey and the filmings continued. First in the world of series where he made appearances notably in Angel , Tru Calling: Countdown and Monk . He also plays recurring roles as the character of Denny Duquette in Grey’s Anatomy , a patient waiting for a heart transplant who will haunt the love life of Katherine Heigl ‘s character . In addition, he played the father of the two heroes of Supernatural from 2005. On the cinema side, he took on the costume of the sheriff in the film Dead and Breakfast in 2004, then successively shot Kabluey alongside Lisa Kudrow , Shanghai with John Cusack and Gong Li and finally PS I Love You where he plays the best friend of Hilary Swank ‘s deceased husband . The following year, he lent his features to a handsome firefighter who was not left unmoved by Uma Thurman in One Husband Too Many .

In 2008, Jeffrey Dean Morgan redoubled his activity. He participates in the filming of All Good Things and the highly anticipated Watchmen – The Guardians of Zack Snyder , where he plays the role of Edward Blake / The Comedian. Two years later, he made a notable appearance as a hippie in Ang Lee ‘s Hotel Woodstock before transforming into Hilary Swank ‘s scary landlord in Antti Jokinen ‘s The Resident . In 2011, the actor played Inspector Brian Heigh, leading the investigation in Killing Fields alongside Sam Worthington , then continued his rise in thrillers by playing the father of a child inhabited by a demon in Possessed .

After playing the terrifying villain of the western The Salvation while opposing Mads Mikkelsen and taking part in another serial killer film, Premonitions , the charismatic actor gained an additional level of notoriety when he was chosen to slip into the skin of a highly anticipated character from the hit series The Walking Dead : that of Negan, leader of a group of violent and merciless survivors. With a rifle, Jeffrey Dean Morgan then attacked Gael García Bernal in the tense survival Desierto (2016), then played Bruce Wayne’s father in the blockbuster Batman v Superman (id.).

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