Education
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.
Career
He is best known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in American Broadcasting Company"s series Agents of South.H.I.E.L.D. 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 Yale University in 2011.
In November 2012, he was cast in a starring role in the Joss Whedon television series, Agents of South.H.I.E.L.D as Agent Grant Ward. The series takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following character Agent Philosophy Coulson and his small team of agents, Dalton"s character among them.
Dalton"s other television credits include Blue Bloods, Army Wives and Nurses (failed pilot for Fox), and National Geographic Channel"s Killing Lincoln, a Tony and Ridley Scott Production.
His theatre credits include Passion Play, Romeo and Juliet, and Happy Now? (Yale Repertory). Sweet Bird of Youth and Demon Dreams (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Macbeth (Macbeth) and You Can"t Take lieutenant With You (Chautauqua Theater Company).
On May 16, 2014, Dalton was cast in indie drama film The Tourist, as Eric Lazard, a heartbroken former college football star who gets in over his head with a dangerous Florentine sport and alluring local woman, alongside Stana Katic and Emily Atack.
In 2015, Dalton voiced the character Mike in Until Dawn (2015), an action survival horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. In February, Dalton was nominated by the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers for his performance.