Olyphant's best-known performance to date has been as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in FX's modern-day Kentucky southern gothic "Justified" (2010–2015), for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011. Olyphant had guest appearances in numerous television sitcoms including "The Office" (2010), "The Mindy Project" (2013), and "The Grinder" (2015–2016), for which he won a Critics' Choice Award. He also starred in the Netflix comedy series "Santa Clarita Diet" (2017–2019) and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" as James Stacy (2019). In 2020, he played himself in a brief cameo, parodying his "Justified" character, in the NBC award-winning show "The Good Place". In the same year, he guest starred in season 10 of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", as well as in the fourth season of "Fargo" and the second season of "The Mandalorian" in the episode as Cobb Vanth.