The First Actor To Play Justified’s Raylan Givens (NOT Timothy Olyphant)

Justified’s Raylan Givens has become one of Timothy Olyphant’s defining characters, but he wasn’t the first actor to play the character onscreen. Olyphant has become something of an unofficial Western icon, thanks to Deadwood, The Mandalorian’s Cobb Vanth and even his vocal cameo as the suspiciously Clint Eastwood-like “Spirit of the West” in Rango. Out of all those roles, Justified’s laconic U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is arguably his best-known and has become his signature character.