Ty Burrell was born in the place called Grants Pass and it is found in Oregon. He is a son to Sheri Rose who was a teacher together with Gary Gerald Burrell who was a family therapist. He has German and English ancestors and when he was in the series of Finding Your Roots, he found out that he is great-grandmother had been African-American slave. He grew up in the Southern Oregon city called Applegate and it is in California border.

Ty Burrell went to Hidden Valley High School and he was a lineman in football team of Hidden Valley Mustangs. When he finished, he went to the Southern Oregon University of Ashland and there he graduated with the bachelor degree of theater arts in the year 1993. He was a commencement speaker of his school.  When he was still in the college and he was working like a bartender of Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

 While attending University of Oregon, he became the member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.  He went to Penn State University where he continued the education and got a MFA and he was a member of Theatre 100 Company together with Keegan-Michael Key. In the year 1999, he was working as the festival actor of Utah Shakespeare festival. When he was graduate school, he chooses to live in the van so that he may be able to save the money.

Ty Burrell is married and his wife is Holly Burrell. They lived in New York City but they moved to Salt Lake City afterwards. They are still the owners of two-bedroom apartment in Astoria, in Queens’s neighborhood and they are renting it out.  The two moved to live in California when Burrell was working on the Modern Family.  They do not have kids of their own but they have adopted two children.  He says that he loves Utah since he went there first to hike and it is the place where he met his wife and the wife was born in the place. Together with his brother, they also bought the bar in the Salt Lake City.

Ty Burrell has played in different movies and tv shows, like being well-meaning plastic surgeon at the CBS sitcom called Out of Practice.  He was Allan Arbus in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus film. In the Incredible Hulk, he was Leonard Samson. His net worth is 16 million dollars now.