This is Fresh Air.

I'm Dave Davies.

Our guest actor Timothy Ollifant has performed in dozens of roles in film, television, and

theater.

He's best known for playing two iconic lawmen, Sheriff Seth Bullock in the HBO series Deadwood

and a subsequent film, and Deputy US Marshal Rayland Givens in the FX series Justified,

which earned Ollifant a prime time Emmy nomination.

Among his many other roles, he starred with Drew Barrymore as the husband of a realtor

slash man-eating zombie in the Netflix comedy series Santa Clarita Diet.

Trust me, it is funny.

And he played the tour manager of a rock band in the Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones and

the Sixth.

In Justified, Ollifant's character, Deputy Marshal Rayland Givens, was reassigned to his

native Eastern Kentucky, where he chased a bunch of colorful criminals for six seasons,

some of whom he'd known since childhood.

This series ended in 2015, but it has been revived in the new FX series Justified City

Prime Evil, which, like the original, is based on the writings of Elmore Leonard.

In the new series, Givens, now in late middle age, finds himself in Detroit, dueling with

a sociopathic criminal in a distinctly urban setting, with his 15-year-old daughter in

the picture.

I should note that our interview was recorded before the actor's strike began.

Tim of the Ollifant, welcome back to Fresh Air.

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