Timothy Olyphant Has A Loving Family With Wife And Kids

Timothy Olyphant family includes his wife Alexis Knief and their three children. Timothy married his college sweetheart Alexis in 1991.

Olyphant is an American actor who made in debut with an off-Broadway theater in 1995. Since then, he has starred in several movies and TV shows, including Scream 2, The Girl Next Door, A Man Apart, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Mandalorian.

He enacted the role of Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood in 2004 and finally came started getting the attention of a much wider audience. Olyphant was even nominated for a SAG Award for the role.

Timothy starred as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in FX’s Justified from 2010 to 2015. For the role, he got nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Olyphant is reprising the role in Justified: City Primeval, which will be premiering in mid-2023.

Timothy Olyphant Lives In Westwood In LA

Timothy Olyphant loves talking about his life at home and what fatherhood is like to him. He also shares funny stories of his kids’ not thinking he is cool.

In an interview with Women’s Health Magazine, he was asked how fatherhood changes a man, to which he replied that it exhausts him. 

During his appearance on ‘Late Show With David Letterman,’ in 2012, Timothy shared that his kids are 12, 10, and 8 and that he is getting into the most challenging years. He added that the oldest is settling into the classic teenage years and mostly gives him the cold stare of anger and silent treatment.

Timothy was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but moved with his parents and siblings to Modesto, California, at the age of two. He is now settled with his missis and children in their Westwood home in Los Angeles, California.

Olyphant is of English, German, Irish, Dutch, and Scottish descent. He is also one-eight Russian-Jewish ancestry from a maternal great-grandfather. According to his IMDb profile, Timothy is a descendant of the renowned Vanderbilt and Olyphant families.

Timothy Olyphant Married His Wife Alexis Knief In 1991

Timothy and Alexis met while studying at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The couple has been married for 32 years.

They were still in their early 20s, as they were both around 23 years old when they tied the knot. However, Knief and Olyphant did wait for eight years before welcoming their first child. 

Timothy shared the secret to his lasting relationship with Women’s Health. He stated that one has to be with the right person, and both people must be willing to do the work and make it happen.

Alexis Helped Olyphant Write An Emmy Acceptance Speech

During his appearance on Conan in 2012, Timothy talked about Alexis and how she has a healthy sense of humor. He revealed that his partner helped him write his acceptance speech for his Emmy nomination. He did not end up winning the Emmy, but he still shared his speech.

Olyphant was going to look at the award and then look out at Knief and say that this is it and that he is finally leaving her. 

Knief Highly Values Her Privacy

As everyone knows, Olyphant is very private about his life; his wife is no less. She is not available on any social media platforms, and anything related to her career is also private.

Alexis does, however, appear with Timothy on red-carpet events and award shows. The pair attended the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills. The two also were at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in 2017.

The Couple Loves Pets

Timothy and Alexis have several pets in their home. They had two beautiful Shiloh Shepherds in 2012, and he said that they were a handful and even joked that he calls them ‘No’ and ‘Uh-Uh.’

They also welcomed guinea pigs, pet fish, and rabbits into their homes. Olyphant has had a bad experience with a pet gecko, as it clamped into his child’s upper lips when she was trying to give it a kiss, as per Suggest.

Timothy Olyphant Has Three Kids

Olyphant adores his three kids and often talks about them during interviews. He frequently says how they are not impressed by their famous dad, and as they got older, they stopped thinking that he was cool.

Timothy jokingly told Ellen that it depresses him a little as he keeps trying to impress them, which is pathetic.

Grace Olyphant Is The Oldest Daughter

Grace was born in Santa Monica, California, on June 19, 1999. Her current age is 23 years. She played NCAA D1 Tennis with Cal Poly Athletics from 2017 to 2019.

Olyphant graduated Magna Cum Laude from California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a marketing concentration and a minor in graphic communication in 2021.

She currently works as a buyer for The Butterfly Club and an assistant stylist for Wayman + Micah. Grace is also a stylist who dressed Timothy and Vivian (her dad and sister) for the 2023 Television Critics Association Panel.

According to her LinkedIn profile, she has also worked for The RealTeal, Bergdorf Goodman, Tiffany Wendel, TechStyle Fashion Group, and UCLA Tennis Camp Counselor.

She has two Instagram accounts. One of them is private, whereas the other one has several posts related to her work as a stylist.

Henry Olyphant Is Their Only Son

Henry was born in the year 2001 and is currently 22 years old. Unlike his siblings, Henry is not on social media, nor has he pursued a career in acting.

He seems to be enjoying a private life away from any media attention.

Vivian Olyphant Is Also An Actor

Vivian, Timothy and Alexis’ youngest child, was born in 2003. She is currently 20 years old. She is making her debut with Justified: City Primeval as Willa Givens, Raylan Givens’s daughter.

The showrunners Dave Andron and Michael Dinner talked to Entertainment Weekly about how Timothy’s real-life daughter was cast as his on-screen daughter on the show. It was not the original plan, but it worked out in the end.

Vivian used to take polls of who was the favorite Olyphant on the set. She actually auditioned for the role and was very excited to work with her dad.

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