{{Short description|American actor (born 1944)}} {{pp-sock|small=yes}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{for|the Australian cricketer|Sam Elliott (cricketer)}} {{Infobox person | name = Sam Elliott | image = Sam Elliott (47933132276).jpg | caption = Elliott in 2019 | birth_name = Samuel Pack Elliott | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1944|08|09}} | birth_place = Sacramento, California, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | education = <!-- Per MOS:INFOEDU, for graduates of post-secondary schools only --> | occupation = Actor | works = Filmography | awards = Full list | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | allegiance = {{Flagu|United States|1960}} | branch = {{air force|United States}} *{{air force|California}} | service_years = Late 1960s–before 1990 | rank = | service_number = | unit = 146th Airlift Wing | commands = | battles = | awards = | relations = | signature = }} | years_active = 1967–present | spouse = {{marriage|Katharine Ross|1984}} | children = 1 }} '''Samuel Pack Elliott''' (born August 9, 1944) is an American actor. With a career spanning nearly six decades of film and television, he is recognized for his deep sonorous voice. Elliott has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a National Board of Review Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
Elliott began his career with minor roles on screen, making his film debut in the western ''The Way West'' (1967). After his first leading film role in the horror ''Frogs'' (1972), Elliott gained wider attention with his breakthrough role in the drama ''Lifeguard'' (1976). He achieved commercial success with his role in the biopic ''Mask'' (1985) and received Golden Globe nominations for starring in Louis L'Amour's adaptation of ''Conagher'' (1991). Elliott starred with Patrick Swayze in the movie ''Road House'' (1989) and the miniseries ''Buffalo Girls'' (1995), the latter of which also earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Throughout the 1990s, he portrayed John Buford in the historical drama ''Gettysburg'' (1993), Virgil Earp in the western ''Tombstone'' (1993), Sgt. Buckey O'Neill in the epic war miniseries ''Rough Riders'' (1997), and the Stranger in the crime comedy ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998).
In ensuing decades, Elliott established himself as a character actor, with supporting roles in a number of films, such as the drama ''We Were Soldiers'' (2002) and Marvel superhero films ''Hulk'' (2003) and ''Ghost Rider'' (2007). In the 2010s, he had guest starring roles in the FX neo-western series ''Justified'' (2015) and the Netflix comedy series ''Grace and Frankie'' (2016) and subsequently starred in the Netflix sitcom ''The Ranch'' (2016{{ndash}}2020). He went on to headline the comedy drama film ''The Hero'' (2017) and star opposite Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in Cooper's 2018 adaptation of ''A Star Is Born'', for which he received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His role in the Paramount+ western miniseries ''1883'' (2021{{ndash}}2022) earned him further praise and a SAG Award.
==Early life== thumb|Elliott's high school yearbook photo Samuel Pack Elliott was born August 9, 1944, at the Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, California,<ref name=SElliottBorn-NYT>{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/21648/Sam-Elliott/biography|title=Movies & TV: Sam Elliott Biography|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127172928/https://movies.nytimes.com/person/21648/Sam-Elliott/biography|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2011|archive-date=November 27, 2011}} *<sup>a</sup> "Birthplace: Sacramento, California, USA"—¶ 1.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Elyssa |date=January 23, 2019 |title=Q&A with Sam Elliott |url=https://www.sactownmag.com/sam-elliott/ |access-date=March 27, 2022 |website=Sactown Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> the son of Glynn Mamie (née Sparks), a Texas state diving champion in high school and later a physical-training instructor and high-school teacher, and Henry Nelson Elliott, who worked as a predator-control specialist for the Department of the Interior.<ref name="baker">{{cite web|url=https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2017/07/13/oregon-critically-acclaimed-lead-role-actor-elliott-raises-part-time-oregonians-profile-around-town/12281965007/|work=The Register-Guard|location=Eugene, Oregon|title=At home in Oregon|author=Baker, Mark|date=July 13, 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|page=102|title=Obituary: H. Nelson Elliott|date=February 13, 1966}}</ref> His parents were originally from El Paso, Texas, and Elliott has an ancestor who served as a surgeon at the Battle of San Jacinto.<ref name=Slate-HollywoodOldWest-2015>{{cite news|last1=Harris|first1=Aisha|title=Sam Elliott On Being the Hollywood Embodiment of the Old West|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8bG0h1SXA| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/VA8bG0h1SXA| archive-date=October 30, 2021|access-date=August 23, 2015|work=Slate|date= February 2, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/columns/brandy-mcdonnell/2018/04/20/interviews-photos-video-elliott-and-katharine-ross-talk-marriage-westerns-favorite-projects-and-more/60529743007/|work=The Oklahoman|location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma|title=Interviews, photos and video: Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross talk marriage, Westerns, favorite projects and more|date=April 20, 2018|author=McDonnell, Brandy|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elpasoinc.com/lifestyle/local_features/sam-elliott-channels-dad-s-integrity-in-latest-character/article_764f75f2-9773-11e8-9328-e7088708e99f.html|work=El Paso Inc|location=El Paso, Texas|title=Sam Elliott channels dad's integrity in latest character|last=Cohen|first=Cindy Graff|date=August 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806170430/http://www.elpasoinc.com/lifestyle/local_features/sam-elliott-channels-dad-s-integrity-in-latest-character/article_764f75f2-9773-11e8-9328-e7088708e99f.html|archive-date=August 6, 2018}}</ref> He moved from California to Portland, Oregon, with his family when he was 13 years old.<ref name=hewitt>{{cite news|work=The Columbian|location=Vancouver, Washington|url=http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/jun/23/clark-grad-sam-elliott-the-hero/|title=Clark College grad Sam Elliott, The Hero|last=Hewitt|first=Scott|date=June 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006132623/http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/jun/23/clark-grad-sam-elliott-the-hero/|archive-date=October 6, 2018}}</ref><ref name=turnquist/>
Elliott spent his teenage years living in northeast Portland,<ref name=hewitt/> and graduated from David Douglas High School in 1962.<ref name=turnquist>{{cite web|work=The Oregonian|location=Portland, Oregon|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/tv/2017/07/have_you_seen_sam_elliott_in_o.html|title=Have you spotted Sam Elliott in Oregon?|date=July 14, 2017|author=Turnquist, Kristi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222235354/https://www.oregonlive.com/tv/2017/07/have_you_seen_sam_elliott_in_o.html|archive-date=December 22, 2017}}</ref> After graduating from high school, Elliott attended college at the University of Oregon as an English and psychology major<ref name=coen>{{cite book|title=The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia|author=King, Lynnea Chapman|page=60|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=978-0-810-88577-6|year=2014}}</ref> for two terms before dropping out.<ref name=baker/> He returned to Portland and attended Clark College in nearby Vancouver, Washington, where he completed a two-year program and was cast as Big Jule in a stage production of ''Guys and Dolls''.<ref name=hewitt/> The Vancouver ''Columbian'' newspaper suggested that Elliott should be a professional actor. After his graduation from Clark in 1965, Elliott re-enrolled at the University of Oregon and pledged at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.<ref name=baker/> He dropped out again after his father died of a heart attack.<ref name=baker/> thumb|right|upright=.5|Elliott's 1965 college yearbook photo In the late 1960s, Elliott relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting, which his father had dissuaded him from doing, instead urging him to obtain a college degree.<ref name=baker/> "He gave me that proverbial line, 'You've got a snowball's chance in hell of having a career in (Hollywood),'" Elliott recalled. "He was a realist, my dad. He was a hard worker. He had a work ethic that I've fashioned mine after, and I thank him for that every day."<ref name=baker/> Elliott worked in construction while studying acting and served in the California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing (the Hollywood Guard) at Van Nuys Airport before the unit moved to Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/National+Guard+Association+of+the+United+States+Honors+Actor+Sam...-a090967765 |title=National Guard Association of the United States Honors Actor Sam Elliott |date=September 9, 2002 |website=Free Library.com |publisher=National Guard Association of the United States |location=Washington, DC |access-date=July 26, 2018 |archive-date=July 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726234436/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/National+Guard+Association+of+the+United+States+Honors+Actor+Sam...-a090967765 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Career== ===Early work=== [[File:Juliet Mills and Sam Elliott - Once an Eagle.jpg|right|thumb|upright=.9|Elliott with Juliet Mills in ''Once an Eagle'' (1976)]] [[File:Sam Elliott in Lifeguard.jpg|right|thumb|upright=.9|Elliott in his breakthrough role in ''Lifeguard'' (1976)]]
Elliott began his career as a character actor; his appearance, voice, and bearing were well-suited to Westerns. In 1969, he earned his first television credit as Dan Kenyon in ''Judd for the Defense'' in the episode "The Crystal Maze".
That same year he appeared in the show ''Lancer'' in the episode "Death Bait", playing Renslo.<ref name=complete>{{cite book|title=The Complete Actors' Television Credits, 1948-1988: Actors|pages=170–171|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Maryland|year=1990|isbn= 978-0-810-82204-7|author1=Parish, James Robert|author2=Terrace, Vincent|edition=2nd}}</ref> He went on to appear in two additional episodes of the series between 1970 and 1971.<ref name=complete/> One of his early film roles was as a card player who watches as the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) demonstrates his shooting ability in the opening scene of ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969).<ref name=tvg>{{cite web|work=TV Guide|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/sam-elliott/credits/173643/|title=Sam Elliott Credits|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324015719/http://www.tvguide.com:80/celebrities/sam-elliott/credits/173643|archive-date=March 24, 2018}}</ref> In the 1970–1971 television season, Elliott starred as Doug Robert for several episodes in the hit series ''Mission: Impossible''.<ref name=tvg/> Beginning in 1972, Elliott appeared as the cowboy Walker in a series of Falstaff Beer commercials.<ref>{{cite web |title=Messin' with Sasquatch and Sailin' with Captain Morgan: Some Thoughts on Television Advertising |url=https://chronicleillinois.com/news/woodford-county-news/messin-with-sasquatch-and-sailin-with-captain-morgan-some-thoughts-on-television-advertising/ |website=chronicleillinois.com |date=July 10, 2013 |publisher=Chronicle Media LLC |access-date=August 27, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Don |title=Falstaff Beer Commercial Gabe & Walker Coin Flip |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhWgO2Tw7g |website=YouTube |date=January 14, 2014 |access-date=August 27, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Banik |first1=Jerry |title=Stories Behind The Giant Falstaff Beer Cans |url=https://www.wrhistoricalsociety.com/stories-behind-the-giant-falstaff-beer-cans |website=Whiting-Robertsdale Historical Society |access-date=August 27, 2022}}</ref> In 1975, Elliott was cast in a lead role as Charles Wood in the television film ''I Will Fight No More Forever'', a dramatization of Chief Joseph's resistance to the U.S. government's forcible removal of his Nez Perce Indian tribe to a reservation in Idaho.<ref>{{cite web|work=Rotten Tomatoes|title=''I Will Fight No More Forever''|archive-url=|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_will_fight_no_more_forever|archive-date=|url-status=live}}</ref>
From 1976 to 1977, he played the lead character Sam Damon in the miniseries ''Once an Eagle'', an adaptation of the Anton Myrer novel of the same name, opposite Amy Irving, Kim Hunter, Clu Gulager, and Melanie Griffith.<ref>{{cite web|work=TV Guide|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/once-an-eagle/1000174668/|title=''Once an Eagle''|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=live}}</ref> He also had a starring role as Rick Carlson in the summer sleeper hit ''Lifeguard'' (1976), which marked his feature film breakthrough.<ref name="davis">{{cite web|url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1989/05/28/dont-take-film-too-seriously-road-house-star-elliott-says/62612461007/|work=The Oklahoman|location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma|title=Don't Take Film Too Seriously, "Road House' Star Elliott Says|last=Davis|first=Chuck|date=May 28, 1989|archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref> He portrayed a lifeguard in Southern California who reevaluates his life choices after being invited to a reunion.<ref name=lgv>{{cite web|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/1975/film/reviews/lifeguard-1200423696/|title=''Lifeguard''|date=December 31, 1975|author=''Variety'' Staff|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002623/https://variety.com/1975/film/reviews/lifeguard-1200423696/|archive-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> ''Variety'' deemed the film "unsatisfying," adding: "Elliott, who has some beefcake value, projects a character who is mostly a passive reactor rather than a person in sure command of his fate."<ref name=lgv/>
===Recognition as a character actor=== thumb|upright=.9|right|Elliott in ''Aspen'' (1977) Elliott played Tom Keating in the miniseries ''Aspen'' in 1977. He later played an abusive wife-killer in the miniseries ''Murder in Texas'' (1981) opposite Farrah Fawcett and his future wife Katharine Ross,<ref>{{cite book|title=Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade|page=141|last=Rettenmund|first=Matthew|year=1995|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=978-0-312-14436-4}}</ref> and starred with Cheryl Ladd in ''A Death in California'' (1985).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-05-11-8501290728-story.html|work=Chicago Tribune|title='Death in California': A Gritty Psychological Drama|date=May 11, 1985|author=Anderson, Jon|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1979, he co-starred with Tom Selleck in the popular miniseries adaptation of Louis L'Amour's ''The Sacketts''. Elliott and Selleck were a team again in 1982 in ''The Shadow Riders'', another Louis L'Amour adaption.<ref name="match">{{cite news|work=The Oklahoman|location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma|url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/columns/brandy-mcdonnell/2018/04/20/match-made-hollywood-longtime-married-actors-elliott-and-katharine-ross-shine-oklahoma-city-visit/60529726007/|title=Match made in Hollywood: Longtime married actors Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross shine in Oklahoma City visit|last=McDonnell|first=Brandy|date=April 20, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref>
Elliott had a supporting role in ''Mask'' (1985) opposite Cher. He played a hard-nosed, rough-around-the-edges but ultimately sympathetic father figure in the Christmas film ''Prancer'' (1989). He has made guest appearances on shows including ''Felony Squad'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Lancer'', and ''Hawaii Five-O'', and has been featured in many TV movies, including ''Buffalo Girls'' (1995), in which he played Wild Bill Hickok.
In 1986, he starred in the TV movie ''Gone to Texas'', based on a biography of Sam Houston. The role allowed him to play Houston as both fighter and a man who grew into a skillful political leader; the film depicted his disgrace as governor of Tennessee, his return to his Cherokee Nation friends, and his pivotal role in the liberation of Texas from Mexico in 1836. Elliott appeared with Patrick Swayze in {{film show year|Road House|1989}} as Wade Garrett, a bouncer, mentor and friend of Swayze's character. In 1991, Elliott and his wife Katharine Ross starred in the adaptation of the Louis L'Amour novel ''Conagher'' (1991).<ref>{{cite web|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-30-tv-2666-story.html|date=June 30, 1991|title=Sam Elliott, On The 'Conagher' Trail|last=Mills|first=Bart|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914181620/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-30/news/tv-2666_1_sam-elliott|archive-date=September 14, 2015}}</ref>
He portrayed Brigadier General John Buford in the 1993 historical drama ''Gettysburg'', and the same year played Virgil Earp in the Western ''Tombstone'' (1993).<ref name=afi/> Elliott played The Stranger, a character narrating the story of ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998).<ref name="afi">{{cite web|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|location=Los Angeles, California|publisher=American Film Institute|title=Sam Elliott Filmography|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/137850-Sam-Elliott|archive-date=|archive-url=}}</ref> He co-starred in ''We Were Soldiers'' (2002), an adaptation of ''We Were Soldiers Once… And Young'', in which he portrayed Command Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley. He played General Thaddeus Ross in the 2003 action film ''Hulk''.
===Later career=== In 2005, he appeared in ''Thank You for Smoking'' as a former Marlboro Man advertisement cowboy who has developed lung cancer. In 2006 he provided the voice for the character Ben the Cow in the animated film ''Barnyard''.
In 2007, Elliott joined the comic book adaptation ''Ghost Rider''. He played the character Carter Slade. The same year, Elliott appeared in ''The Golden Compass'' as the character Lee Scoresby. The film is based on ''Northern Lights'' in Philip Pullman's trilogy ''His Dark Materials''. Also appearing in the film are Nicole Kidman, Christopher Lee, and Daniel Craig.
In 2009, Elliott had a small role in ''Up In The Air'' in which he portrayed the chief pilot of American Airlines. He appeared three times on ''Parks and Recreation'' as Ron Dunn, the Eagleton equivalent of Ron Swanson; Dunn is a hippie, compared to Swanson's staunch survivalist and Libertarian personality. He then provided the voice of Buster (a.k.a. Chupadogra) in the animated film ''Marmaduke'' (2010). He had a supporting role in the thriller film ''The Company You Keep'' and played a college football coach in 2014's drama film ''Draft Day''.
[[File:Sam Elliott and Jon Hamm (Sundance 2017).jpg|thumb|right|Elliott and Jon Hamm at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival]] In 2015, Elliott appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as a former love interest of a grandmother (Tomlin) attempting to help her pregnant granddaughter in Paul Weitz's comedy ''Grandma''.<ref name=NYTimes-Gma-AnatomyScene-2015>{{cite news|last1=Murphy|first1=Mekado|title='Grandma' (With Movie Trailer): Paul Weitz Narrates a Scene|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/movies/grandma-with-movie-trailer-paul-weitz-narrates-a-scene.html|access-date=August 23, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=August 19, 2015}}</ref> In the same year he appeared in the romance ''I'll See You in My Dreams'', and had a role in the independent film ''Digging for Fire''.<ref name=NYTimes-SamElliott-LeadingMan-2015>{{cite news|last1=Buckley|first1=Cara|title=Sam Elliott, a Leading Man Again at 71, No Cowboy Hat Required|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/movies/sam-elliott-a-leading-man-again-at-71-no-cowboy-hat-required.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128180639/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/movies/sam-elliott-a-leading-man-again-at-71-no-cowboy-hat-required.html|archive-date=November 28, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=August 13, 2015}}</ref> In 2015, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for best guest performer in a drama for his role in the FX Network's show ''Justified''.<ref name="NYTimes-SamElliott-LeadingMan-2015" />
===Career resurgence and critical acclaim=== In 2015, Elliott began appearing as a series regular in the Netflix series ''The Ranch'', opposite Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/09/elisha-cuthbert-cast-ashton-kutcher-netflix-comedy-series-the-ranch-1201558925/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810041926/https://deadline.com/2015/09/elisha-cuthbert-cast-ashton-kutcher-netflix-comedy-series-the-ranch-1201558925/|archive-date=August 10, 2018|title=Elisha Cuthbert Joins Ashton Kutcher's Netflix Comedy Series 'The Ranch'|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|date=September 30, 2015|work=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref> He also had a recurring role as Phil Millstein in the second season of ''Grace and Frankie''. In film, he supplied the voice of Butch in the animated film ''The Good Dinosaur'' (2015).<ref name="TGD-Recast">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.disney.com/insider/2015/06/12/meet-the-new-cast-of-disneypixars-the-good-dinosaur/|title=Meet the New Cast of Disney•Pixar's The Good Dinosaur |publisher=The Walt Disney Company|date= June 12, 2015|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref>
In 2017, Elliott starred in ''The Hero'', as Lee Hayden, an aging Western icon with a golden voice, whose best performances are decades behind him.<ref>{{cite web|title={Exclusive} Sam Elliott Will Lead Cast That Includes Laura Prepon Krysten Ritter Nick Offerman in "The Hero"|url=http://www.tracking-board.com/exclusive-sam-elliott-will-lead-cast-that-includes-laura-prepon-krysten-ritter-nick-offerman-in-the-hero/|date=April 20, 2016|work=The Tracking Board|access-date=January 17, 2017|first=Josh|last=Lyons}}</ref> His work in the film received much critical acclaim with Joey Magidson, writing for ''AwardsCircuit'', proclaiming that "Elliott is perfect here. ''The Hero'' encapsulates everything you love about him into one package."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170611050853/http://www.awardscircuit.com/2017/06/05/film-review-sam-elliott-oscar-worthy-hero/ Film Review: Sam Elliott Is Oscar Worthy in 'The Hero']</ref> Later that year, Elliott starred in ''The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Busch|first1=Anita|title=Sam Elliott, John Sayles On 'The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot'|url=https://deadline.com/2017/04/john-sayles-sam-elliott-the-man-who-killed-hitler-and-then-the-bigfoot-1202068721/|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=April 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126125245/https://deadline.com/2017/04/john-sayles-sam-elliott-the-man-who-killed-hitler-and-then-the-bigfoot-1202068721/|archive-date=November 26, 2018}}</ref>
The following year, Elliott costarred in ''A Star Is Born'' (2018), in which he plays Bobby Maine, the elder half-brother of Bradley Cooper's lead character.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/09/25/star-born-bradley-cooper-voice-sam-elliott/1418221002/|work=USA Today|date=September 25, 2018|title='A Star is Born': Bradley Cooper's deep Sam Elliott-inspired voice impressed even Elliott|last=Mallenbaum|first=Carly|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008103814/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/09/25/star-born-bradley-cooper-voice-sam-elliott/1418221002/|archive-date=October 8, 2018}}</ref> Elliott received critical acclaim for his performance, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor.<ref name=nbr>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/11/27/national-board-review-green-book-lady-gaga-top-winners/2128386002/|work=USA Today|title='Green Book,' 'A Star Is Born,' Lady Gaga top National Board of Review winners|last=Coyle|first=Jake|date=November 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209061805/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/11/27/national-board-review-green-book-lady-gaga-top-winners/2128386002/|archive-date=December 9, 2018}}</ref> He was also nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his career-first nomination.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/oscars/2019/01/22/sam-elliott-oscars-best-supporting-actor-nomination/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=Sam Elliott lands his first Oscar nomination for ''A Star Is Born''|date=January 22, 2019|author=Stack, Tim}}</ref> Commenting on his Academy Award nomination, Elliott declared: "I think the thing off the top of my head might be, 'It's about fucking time!'"<ref>{{cite news|last=Blyth|first=Antonia|date=January 22, 2019|title='A Star Is Born's Sam Elliott Gets First Oscar Nomination In 50-Year Career, Jokes "It's About [Bleeping] Time"|url=https://deadline.com/2019/01/sam-elliott-a-star-is-born-oscar-nomination-interview-1202539369/|url-status=live|work=Deadline Hollywood|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610140109/https://deadline.com/2019/01/sam-elliott-a-star-is-born-oscar-nomination-interview-1202539369/|archive-date=June 10, 2023|access-date=December 9, 2023}}</ref> Since 2019, he played Wild West, new Mayor of Quahog, in 21 episodes of the animated series Family Guy. Wild West is a parody of Western film characters.
In 2022, Elliott starred as Shea Brennan on the Paramount+ miniseries ''1883'', a prequel to the ''Yellowstone'' series. The show's story involves Brennan as he leads a group of immigrants from Fort Worth, Texas into the untamed western areas of the plains, and its connection to the Dutton family and its migration to Montana. The show aired from late 2021 until February 2022. For his performance he received critical acclaim and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wynne |first1=Kelly |title=Sam Elliott Calls SAG Awards 2023 Win 'the Most Meaningful Acknowledgement of My 55-Year Career' |url=https://people.com/tv/sag-awards-2023-male-actor-in-a-television-movie-or-limited-series-sam-elliott-win/ |website=people.com |publisher=People |access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref>
In 2025, Elliott starred in the second season of the Paramount+ series ''Landman'', as T. L. Norris, the father of the Billy Bob Thornton's lead character.
==Other ventures== In 1998, Elliott was named the grand marshal of the Calgary Stampede parade and rode in the procession before an estimated 300,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.calgarystampede.com/heritage/parade-marshals |title= Parade Marshalls|work=Calgary Stampede|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406021117/https://www.calgarystampede.com/heritage/parade-marshals|archive-date=April 6, 2023|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Voice work and political endorsements=== Elliott has performed voice-over narration for various commercials. He has lent his voice to campaigns for Dodge, IBM, Kinney Drugs, Union Pacific, and most notably the American Beef Council, succeeding Robert Mitchum in the latter. Since late 2007 Elliott has done voice-overs for Coors beer, bringing his deep, rich voice and "western" appeal to the brand brewed in Colorado. In 2010, Ram Trucks hired Elliott to do the voice-over for their Ram Heavy Duty truck commercial; he has been voicing their commercials since. Starting in 2008, he has voiced Smokey Bear, and shares the mascot's birth date (August 9, 1944). He also narrated the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers team introductions to Super Bowl XLV, played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas at the conclusion of the 2010 NFL season for ''NFL on Fox''. On September 9, 2020, it was announced that Elliott would begin recurring on ''Family Guy'' as the new mayor of Quahog, the late Mayor Adam West's cousin, Wild Wild West.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/tv/family-guy-sam-elliott-mayor/|title=''Family Guy'' taps Sam Elliott to succeed Adam West as Mayor: See the first photos|first=Dan|last=Snierson|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=September 9, 2020|access-date=September 25, 2020}}</ref> Also in 2020, he voiced Joe Biden's "Go From There" campaign ad.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Henderson |first=Cydney |date=October 22, 2020 |title=Sam Elliott lends his distinctive voice to $4 million political ad for Joe Biden |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/10/22/sam-elliott-narrates-4-million-dollar-joe-biden-ad-during-world-series/3720987001/ |access-date=November 20, 2023 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref> He did another ad for The Lincoln Project, in support of Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign, where he said "It's time to be a man and vote for a woman."
==Personal life== Elliott married actress Katharine Ross in 1984, becoming her fifth husband.<ref name="carvajal">{{cite web|work=Amo Mama|url=https://amomama.us/58536-sam-elliott-katharine-rosss-love-story-a.html |title=Story of love between Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross, who had 4 husbands before|date=October 26, 2018|author=Carvajal, Edduin|url-status=live|archive-date=|archive-url=}}</ref> They have a daughter, Cleo,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20112574,00.html|title=Katharine Ross|author=''People'' Staff|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241121194025/https://people.com/archive/katharine-ross-vol-37-no-17/|archive-date=November 21, 2024|date=May 4, 1992|work=People|url-status=dead}}</ref> who is a musician in Malibu, California.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2008/12/31/malibu_life/art3.txt|title=Straight from her heart|last=Magruder|first=Melonie|date=December 31, 2008|work=Malibu Times|location=Malibu, California|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207144507/http://www.malibutimes.com/malibu_life/article_1cd47ff3-3de5-565d-9620-c56edfa43e29.html|archive-date=December 7, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ross and Elliott live in a seaside home in Malibu, which they purchased in the 1970s.<ref name=baker/> Elliott also maintains a property in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.<ref name=baker/> Following his mother's death in 2011 at the age of 96, he also took ownership of his childhood home in northeast Portland.<ref name=baker/> <!--References re recent homophobic incident <ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1, 2022 |title=Sam Elliott Goes On Homophobic Rant Over 'Power of the Dog' |url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2022/3/01/sam-elliott-goes-homophobic-rant-over-power-dog |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=www.advocate.com |language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Bolies |first=Corbin |date=March 1, 2022 |title=Sam Elliott Goes on Homophobic Tirade About 'Power of the Dog' and Its Shirtless Cowboys |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/sam-elliott-goes-on-homophobic-tirade-about-jane-campions-the-power-of-the-dog-and-its-shirtless-cowboys |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |date=March 2, 2022 |title=Sam Elliott echoes John Wayne with homophobic rant against 'Power of the Dog' |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/02/sam-elliott-echoes-john-wayne-with-homophobic-rant-against-power-of-the-dog |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Dry |first=Jude |date=March 2, 2022 |title=Sam Elliott's Homophobic Rant Proves 'The Power of the Dog' Has Real Bite |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/sam-elliott-power-of-the-dog-homophobic-1234703782/ |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=IndieWire |language=en}}</ref> -->
==Filmography and accolades== {{Main|Sam Elliott filmography|List of awards and nominations received by Sam Elliott}}
Elliott has received a number of awards and nominations for his numerous screen performances. These include a Screen Actors Guild Award, a National Board of Review Award and nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
After gaining early recognition in western films in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1970s and 1980s, Elliott received two Golden Globe Award nominations{{emdash}}for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film and Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film{{emdash}}for his respective roles in the television film ''Conagher'' (1991) and miniseries ''Buffalo Girls'' (1995), the latter of which also earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special. His voice-over performance in ''Robot Chicken'' (2012{{ndash}}2020) earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. Elliott's guest role in ''Justified'' (2015) earned him a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
As a member of the ensemble cast of ''Up in the Air'' (2009), Elliott was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble. For starring opposite Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in Cooper's 2018 adaptation of ''A Star Is Born'', Elliott won the National Board of Review Award and received nominations for the AACTA International, Academy Award, Critics' Choice and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as another nomination for the SAG Award for Outstanding Cast. His role in the Paramount+ miniseries ''1883'' (2021{{ndash}}2022) won him the SAG Award for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.
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