Tim Guinee | |
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Born |
Timothy S. Guinee November 18, 1962 Los Angeles, California, USA |
Occupation | Actor/ Volunteer Firefighter |
Spouse(s) | Daisy Foote |
Timothy S. "Tim" Guinee (born November 18, 1962) is an American stage, television, and feature film actor.
Guinee, who has two brothers and two sisters, was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Illinois and Texas. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas before he founded a theater group in Texas. Later he moved to New York in order to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Following this study, he attended the North Carolina School of Arts in Winston-Salem, where he graduated and had his film debut. He met his wife, Daisy Foote, at the production of Hallmark Hall of Fame: Lily Dale (1996). Daisy is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winner Horton Foote, who adapted Lily Dale for the film himself.
Guinee has participated in numerous productions since then, and may be best known through his role as the lead in Sweet Land and as Tomin in the television series Stargate SG-1. In 2005, he starred as record producer Sam Phillips in the Golden Globe winning miniseries Elvis. Guinee stars as Ben Matheson in Revolution. He was a cast regular in AMC's Hell on Wheels, playing railroad entrepreneur Collis Huntington.