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Actor: The Founder. John Carroll Lynch was born August 1, 1963 in Boulder, Colorado, and was raised in Denver. It was there John found a passion for acting and became a Denver Broncos fan.
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American Horror Story: Created by Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Halley Feiffer. With Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Denis O'Hare, Lily Rabe. An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, showcasing different aspects of horror.
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Oct 23, 2019 · Episode 100: Directed by Loni Peristere. With Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, Cody Fern. With the horrors of the night behind them the survivors deal with the fallout of their choices.
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John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American actor.
Lynch was born August 1, 1963, in Boulder, Colorado. He was raised in Denver. In 1996, he received critical acclaim for his role as Marge Gunderson's simple husband Norm in the movie Fargo.
In the fall of 2003, he starred in the CBS series 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 thriller Gothika (2003) and as suspect Arthur Leigh Allen in Zodiac (2007).
He was also in Fox's police drama series K-Ville as New Orleans Police Captain James Embry and had a recurring character arc on FX spy drama The Americans.
Lynch appears as "Col. Drummond" in the Sundance Film Festival drama Camp X-Ray starring Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi. The film is scheduled for release by IFC Filmsin late 2014.
John Carroll Lynch joined the cast of American Horror Story during the fourth installment of the series, titled Freak Show. He portrayed Twisty, a killer clown. Lynch reprised the role as a nightmarish comic strip version of the character in the seventh season, Cult.
Lynch also appeared in a recurring capacity portraying another "killer clown", a fictionalized John Wayne Gacy in the fifth installment, Hotel.
•Lynch has twice played a murderer on a circus-themed series. First on Carnivàle and then on AHS: Freak Show.
•In Freak Show, Lynch plays Twisty the clown, inspired by real-life killer clown John Wayne Gacy. In Hotel, he plays the ghost of John Wayne Gacy.
•Every character played by Lynch has been a serial killer.
•John Carroll Lynch is one of the twenty-five cast members that portrayed the same character in different seasons. He portrayed Twisty in Freak Show and Cult.
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He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show (1997–2004) as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on four seasons of American Horror Story (2014–2019), most notably as breakout character Twisty the Clown.
From Nazis and serial killers to mutants and aliens, no one is safe inside the walls of the Briarcliff Mental Institution. In a house of healing that is anything but, troubled nun Sister Jude rules with an iron fist and Dr Arden conducts strange experiments on the facility’s patients.
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The second season of the American horror anthology television series American Horror Story, subtitled Asylum, takes place in 1964 and follows the stories of the staff and inmates who occupy the fictional mental institution Briarcliff Manor, and intercuts with events in the past and present.
