Zach Gilford is an actor best known for his portrayal of Matt Saracen on NBC’s Friday Night Lights. He was born on January 14, 1982. He attended Northwestern University and Evanston Township High School.

Zach Gilford, a native of Evanston, IL, and a graduate of Northwestern University, where he starred in theatre productions of “Equus” and “The Laramie Project,” had his first starring role on Peter Berg’s critically acclaimed, but under-watched, television adaptation of his 2004 film about life in a small Texas town obsessed with its winning high school football team, “Friday Night Lights” (NBC, 2006-07).

Gilford played backup quarterback Matt Saracen, a 16-year-old child with an absentee mother and a father in Iraq who is thrown into the spotlight during the team’s first game of the season after the primary quarterback (Scott Porter) is hurt. Gilford was motivated by his own gridiron experiences at Evanston Township High School when he endured an injury that drove him to pursue acting.

Zach Gilford’s parents: Meet Steve Gilford, Anne Gilford

Zach Gilford’s parents are Steve and Anne Gilford. His father is a Jew, but his mother is a Lutheran. Apart from that, at the time of writing, little is known about Zach’s parents on the internet.

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