<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Melissa Trn (m . 2015) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Brett Patrick Dalton (born January 7, 1983) is an American actor . He is best known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in ABC's series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Michael Monroe in the 2015 video game Until Dawn . </P> <P> Dalton graduated in 2001 from Westmont High School in Campbell, California, where he became interested in acting after auditioning for a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and where he was California Scholarship Federation President and Associated Student Body President . He played the lead in My Favorite Year . After studying at University of California, Berkeley for his undergraduate degree, Dalton received a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in 2011 . One of his Yale classmates was Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o . </P>

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