Austin Lyon


Austin Bradley Lyon is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his character on the television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and his role in the 2015 film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Career

After moving to Los Angeles, California in 2012 to pursue acting, Lyon was cast in various television series and films such as The Goldbergs, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Divergent and Mortdecai.
In 2014 it was announced that Lyon joined the cast of the American biographical film Miles Ahead, directed by Don Cheadle and based on the life of jazz musician Miles Davis.
He accepted the role of Dave Reed in the new movie Goat, based on a memoir by Brad Land.

Personal life

Lyon was born in Blue Springs, Missouri. In an interview in 2014, Lyon said he left a job at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company to pursue acting. He mentioned that if someone had told him he would actually be able to act in film and TV, he would have "called you crazy."

Filmography