Esten is best known for his role as country singer Deacon Claybourne on the American Broadcasting Company\n', '/CMT (U.S. TV channel) drama Nashville, which he played from 2012 to 2018. He previously appeared on the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? regularly between 1999–2005.\n', '

Esten was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Alexandria, Virginia at age nine, after his parents divorced. He and his younger sister were raised by their mother.\n', '

His late father, Charles, was a prominent local businessman and business partner of former Pittsburgh Steelers center Ray Mansfield.\n', '

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