Once upon a time, Taylor Sheridan was just a working actor with chiseled good looks.
Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and raised in Texas (where he hung with the fam on a ranch in Cranfills Gap), Sheridan spent the ’90s and the aughts doing guest shots on various primetime dramas, landing steady gigs on Veronica Mars and Sons of Anarchy. He later turned his talents to screenwriting, scripting such bullet-riddled, testosterone-fueled crime yarns as the Sicario movies and Hell or High Water (which got him an Oscar nod for best original screenplay).
Now, Sheridan has become television’s latest superstar auteur, churning out hour-long neo-Westerns one after another. High atop the list is Yellowstone, also known as the most popular drama on television. Set in the wide-open spaces of Montana, the show is about a powerful family of ranchers, led by a raspy-voiced Kevin Costner, who recently won a Golden Globe for his role as the ornery-but-wise patriarch.
