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Biography #2 (for Blood Work)

Dylan Walsh was just cast as a lead in The Lone Ranger, a movie-of-the-week for the WB, just as he completed filming the CBS pilot Jo, opposite Andie MacDowell. Last year, Walsh shot We Were Soldiers, appearing opposite Mel Gibson as a young Captain under the command of Gibson in Vietnam, Jet Boy, as an undercover cop and the lead roles in Deadly Little Secrets for director Fiona Mackenzie and Power Play, directed by Joseph Zito. He recently shot the independent feature Par 6 for director Grant Heslov, Chapter Zero and the HBO film Final Voyage.

For Paramount Pictures, Walsh starred in the critically acclaimed project Nobody's Fool opposite Paul Newman and in the critically acclaimed action adventure film, Congo.

Walsh starred in Steven Bochco's drama Brooklyn South for CBS, portraying the city's famous police officer Jimmy Doyle. He was also seen in the CBS movie, The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery opposite Brooke Shields. He also starred in the independent films Men, opposite Sean Young and John Heard, Divided by Hate, directed by Tom Skerrit and Changing Habits with Moira Kelly.

Born in Los Angles, Walsh spent his first ten years growing up in Africa, India and Indonesia, as both parents were in the Foreign Service. After his tenth birthday, his family settled in Annandale, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. He made his professional acting debut while still in high school, appearing with such prestigious Washington theatre companies as the Arena Stage and the Studio Theatre. He became an English major at the University of Virginia but spent most of his time there acting in the theatre department. During his summers, he performed with the Heritage Repertory Company in such plays as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Curse of the Starving Class, Romeo and Juliet, Death of a Salesman and Our Town.

Walsh made his film debut in John Boorman's Where the Heart Is and has since appeared in Betsy's Wedding, Loverboy, Radio Inside, Arctic Blue and Eden. He has appeared on television in Gabriel's Fire, starring opposite James Earl Jones, the CBS after school special Soldier's Boy and the CBS mini-series Telling Secrets.

Bio courtesy Warner Bros. for "Blood Work" (07-Aug-2002)

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