John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch

Birthday: 1963-08-01

Place of Birth: Boulder, Colorado, USA

Biography: 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.

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Fargo
Fargo

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan...

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Face/Off
Face/Off

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...

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Zodiac
Zodiac

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders...

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Volcano
Volcano

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causi...

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Things We Lost in the Fire
Things We Lost in the Fire

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...

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Catch That Kid
Catch That Kid

A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by pla...

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Gothika
Gothika

After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that sh...

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Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wi...

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Shutter Island
Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...

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Mozart and the Whale
Mozart and the Whale

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabota...

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The Naked Man
The Naked Man

A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause so...

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Mercury Rising
Mercury Rising

Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government...

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Bug
Bug

A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a l...

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Love Happens
Love Happens

Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he hel...

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Gran Torino
Gran Torino

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teen...

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The Good Girl
The Good Girl

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation o...

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Bubble Boy
Bubble Boy

Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic b...

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A Friend's Betrayal
A Friend's Betrayal

Old feelings of betrayal resurface, renewing a bitter rift between two girlfriends when one learns t...

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Hesher
Hesher

A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then h...

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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-t...

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A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres

The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath the...

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Restaurant
Restaurant

A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise ...

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Dead Men Can't Dance
Dead Men Can't Dance

To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a...

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Lay the Favorite
Lay the Favorite

A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sport...

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Voice from the Grave
Voice from the Grave

A segment from the 'Unsolved Mysteries' TV series inspired this story, in which a nurse (Megan Ward)...

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Outlaw Posse
Outlaw Posse

1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hi...

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Par 6
Par 6

A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothe...

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Highland Park
Highland Park

A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years a...

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The Pretty One
The Pretty One

When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, ...

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Late Last Night
Late Last Night

After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls a...

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Camp X-Ray
Camp X-Ray

A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town root...

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The Prince of Motor City
The Prince of Motor City

A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Detroit....

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Babes
Babes

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and m...

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The Invitation
The Invitation

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex ...

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In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice

When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to tr...

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Hot Pursuit
Hot Pursuit

Straight-arrow policewoman Cooper is excited and thrilled about her next assignment. Her task is to ...

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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a ...

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She Rides Shotgun
She Rides Shotgun

Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his es...

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Paul
Paul

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret mil...

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Ted 2
Ted 2

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted w...

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Hoke
Hoke

Life and misadventures of homicide detective Hoke Moseley during the 1980s....

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The Founder
The Founder

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were runnin...

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Miracles from Heaven
Miracles from Heaven

When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a fe...

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The Minus Man
The Minus Man

When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath...

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Anywhere but Here
Anywhere but Here

Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her ...

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Beautiful Girls
Beautiful Girls

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifel...

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The Architect
The Architect

When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising mod...

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Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie

A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him so...

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Jackie
Jackie

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kenn...

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Sympathy for Delicious
Sympathy for Delicious

A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing....

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Anything
Anything

After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where h...

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Live from Baghdad
Live from Baghdad

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting...

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The White Orchid
The White Orchid

A social services investigator helps a local sheriff solve the brutal murder of a beautiful blonde k...

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Freak Weather
Freak Weather

In this harrowing character study, Jacqueline McKenzie portrays Penny, a young woman lost in a dange...

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Pushing Tin
Pushing Tin

Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several ...

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Private Life
Private Life

Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they de...

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The Highwaymen
The Highwaymen

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to th...

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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert B...

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The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followe...

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The Fan
The Fan

When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to th...

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Be Absolute for Death
Be Absolute for Death

In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki ...

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Shangri-La Suite
Shangri-La Suite

Karen and Jack met in a mental hospital and fell in love. They set out to follow what Jack thinks is...

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The Next Best Thing
The Next Best Thing

A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who d...

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Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, sud...

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Full of It
Full of It

A teenager tells outrageous lies at his new high school, only to have them suddenly come true....

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Gone in Sixty Seconds
Gone in Sixty Seconds

Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brothe...

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Feeling Minnesota
Feeling Minnesota

Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by ...

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Kiss Me Kosher!
Kiss Me Kosher!

When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos follows. ...

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Confidence
Confidence

What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just sw...

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Fade to Black
Fade to Black

An anxious screenwriter’s darkly comedic descent into madness in Hollywood’s twisted industry sees h...

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The Cure
The Cure

Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure f...

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Sorry, Baby
Sorry, Baby

Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a bab...

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Cattywampus
Cattywampus

In the middle of a heist, two diamond thieves discover they need to prioritize their work-life balan...

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The Whisper Man
The Whisper Man

When his 8-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired...

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On the Set of 'Gothika'
On the Set of 'Gothika'

Documentary on the making of 'Gothika', featuring interviews with the cast and crew....

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Painting with Fire
Painting with Fire

Documentary on the special effects of the film 'Gothika'....

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