John Carroll Lynch
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 24.803 |
| Birthday | 1963-08-01 |
| Place of Birth | Boulder, Colorado, USA |
| Also Known As | John Caroll Lynch, John Lynch, Τζον Κάρολ Λιντς, Τζον Λιντς, |
1996
Fargo
7.862/7856
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife...
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Fargo
1997
Face/Off
7.036/5158
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns...
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Face/Off
2007
Zodiac
7.523/10228
The zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.
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Zodiac
1997
Volcano
5.913/1469
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins...
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Volcano
2007
Things We Lost in the Fire
6.593/338
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the f...
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Things We Lost in the Fire
2003
Gothika
6.106/2222
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently emplo...
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Gothika
2004
Catch That Kid
5.569/293
Athletic twelve-year-old Maddy shares an enthusiasm for mountain climbing with her father Tom. Unfortunately, Tom suffers a spinal injury while scalin...
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Catch That Kid
2010
Shutter Island
8.204/23529
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his...
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Shutter Island
1993
Grumpy Old Men
6.625/639
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nea...
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Grumpy Old Men
2005
Mozart and the Whale
6.238/129
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
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Mozart and the Whale
1998
The Naked Man
4.3/9
A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble.
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The Naked Man
1998
Mercury Rising
6.3/1470
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
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Mercury Rising
2002
Bug
7.109/32
A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a lost restaurant reservation, a drunken fender-bende...
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Bug
2009
Love Happens
5.868/644
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and perso...
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Love Happens
2001
Bubble Boy
5.744/551
Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet ca...
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Bubble Boy
2008
Gran Torino
7.993/10490
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possessi...
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Gran Torino
2002
The Good Girl
6.222/609
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
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The Good Girl
1996
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
0/0
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
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Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
1997
A Thousand Acres
5.8/64
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
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A Thousand Acres
2000
Restaurant
5.1/13
A few young waiters at a popular New Jersey restaurant are dreaming of becoming actors or otherwise getting into the artistic community.
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Restaurant
1997
Dead Men Can't Dance
4.2/6
To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant....
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Dead Men Can't Dance
2012
Lay the Favorite
5.271/221
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
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Lay the Favorite
1996
Voice from the Grave
6/2
A segment from the 'Unsolved Mysteries' TV series inspired this story, in which a nurse (Megan Ward) claims that she's possessed by a murdered co-work...
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Voice from the Grave
2002
Par 6
0/0
A cynical man returns to his family's homestead in Texas and starts up a golf course with his brothers and sisters.
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Par 6
2013
Highland Park
5.3/12
A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their...
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Highland Park
2014
The Pretty One
6.2/228
When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted,...
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The Pretty One
1999
Late Last Night
5.3/6
After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and int...
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Late Last Night
2014
Camp X-Ray
6.7/991
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantana...
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Camp X-Ray
2011
Paul
6.72/5601
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind....
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Paul
2016
The Invitation
6.4/2530
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the eveni...
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The Invitation
1995
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
4.5/6
When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to track down the killers. Realizing the murder is conn...
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In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
2015
Hot Pursuit
5.702/1564
An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.
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Hot Pursuit
2011
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
7.258/8281
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfe...
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2016
Jackie
6.449/2267
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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Jackie
2010
Hesher
6.8/660
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even m...
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Hesher
2014
Hoke
5.5/2
Life and misadventures of homicide detective Hoke Moseley during the 1980s.
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Hoke
2015
Ted 2
6.305/7315
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
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Ted 2
2016
The Founder
7.126/4784
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California....
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The Founder
2016
Miracles from Heaven
7.428/1156
When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she...
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Miracles from Heaven
1999
Anywhere but Here
6.1/266
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high...
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Anywhere but Here
1996
Beautiful Girls
6.647/347
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connec...
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Beautiful Girls
2016
The Architect
4.516/32
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream...
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The Architect
1999
Tuesdays with Morrie
7.3/39
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in r...
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Tuesdays with Morrie
2010
Sympathy for Delicious
5.9/30
A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
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Sympathy for Delicious
2018
Anything
5.5/17
After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.
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Anything
1999
The Minus Man
5.4/89
When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is mere...
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The Minus Man
2002
Live from Baghdad
6.7/50
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni...
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Live from Baghdad
2018
The White Orchid
5.6/36
A social services investigator helps a local sheriff solve the brutal murder of a beautiful blonde known only as The White Orchid.
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The White Orchid
1999
Freak Weather
5/1
In this harrowing character study, Jacqueline McKenzie portrays Penny, a young woman lost in a dangerous abusive relationship. One day, she sets out w...
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Freak Weather
1999
Pushing Tin
5.87/380
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
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Pushing Tin
2018
Private Life
6.948/358
Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of...
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Private Life
2019
The Highwaymen
6.752/1968
In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Par...
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The Highwaymen
2006
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
5.3/23
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what make...
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
7.707/2958
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
1996
The Fan
5.959/766
When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supporti...
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The Fan
2020
Be Absolute for Death
0/0
In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home,...
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Be Absolute for Death
2016
Shangri-La Suite
5.7/41
Karen and Jack met in a mental hospital and fell in love. They set out to follow what Jack thinks is his destiny: killing Elvis Presley.
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Shangri-La Suite
2000
The Next Best Thing
5.3/182
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later,...
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The Next Best Thing
2000
Waking the Dead
6.093/91
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
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Waking the Dead
2007
Full of It
5.272/125
A teenager tells outrageous lies at his new high school, only to have them suddenly come true.
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Full of It
2000
Gone in Sixty Seconds
6.431/4305
Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" R...
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Gone in Sixty Seconds
1996
Feeling Minnesota
5.4/152
Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. B...
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Feeling Minnesota
2020
Kiss Me Before It Blows Up
5.9/34
A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two g...
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Kiss Me Before It Blows Up
2003
Confidence
6.251/425
What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting...
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Confidence
2008
The Prince of Motor City
0/0
A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Detroit.
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The Prince of Motor City
2024
Babes
5.5/17
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and be...
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Babes
1996
A Friend's Betrayal
4.5/1
Old feelings of betrayal resurface, renewing a bitter rift between two girlfriends when one learns that the other seduced her son
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A Friend's Betrayal
2024
Outlaw Posse
6.333/3
1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose ratio...
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Outlaw Posse
She Rides Shotgun
0/0
After years in prison, Nate has made some dangerous enemies, including the powerful criminal gang he worked for on the inside. Desperate for a fresh s...
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