Colton Dunn — Movies, TV Shows & Roles

Producer · Actor

1987-06-30 · Normal, Illinois, USA · Male

18 series in the catalog

Colton Dunn (born June 30, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, writer and producer. He is best known for his roles as Garrett McNeil on the NBC workplace comedy Superstore (2015–2021), Lester Kitchens in the Netflix spy-adventure series The Recruit (2022–2025), and Herman in Lazer Team (2015) and its sequel Lazer Team 2 (2017). As a writer and producer, Dunn has worked on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele (2012–2015) as well as Apple TV’s Widows Bay (2026), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Life and career
Born in 1977 in Normal, Illinois, Dunn, who is of African American heritage, moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota with his mother when he was a toddler. While attending Saint Paul Central High School, he was involved in theater and joined an improv comedy group. Dunn moved to New York in 1998, and while there, worked for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He then moved to Los Angeles in 2004.
Prior to working on Key & Peele, Dunn was a writer and performer on madTV, from 2005 to 2009. He has also appeared in Parks and Recreation, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Game Shop, Burning Love, a small part on CollegeHumor's If Google Was a Guy, and co-starred as Garrett McNeil in Superstore on NBC. Dunn hosted the comedy variety show RT-ES, produced by Rooster Teeth Productions, and co-starred in their sci-fi action comedy Lazer Team in 2015.
He is an alumnus of the improvisational comedy group Boom Chicago and has performed and taught at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since 1999.
Dunn has received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for his work on Key & Peele.
In 2019, Dunn appeared on the podcast Hello from the Magic Tavern as a talking crossbow in the episode "Wizard with a Crossbow". He reprised this role in March 2022 in the season 4 episode "Talking Crossbow Visits".