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Actor Ed Harris Profile:

Ed Harris

Profile:
Famous as: Actor
Birth Name: Edward Allen Harris
Birth Date: November 28, 1950
Birth Place: Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
Claim to fame: As John Glenn in ?The Right Stuff? (1983)

Ed Harris young photo

Biography:
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned the reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time. He started acting in theater and television guest spots. Harris landed his first leading role in a film in cult-favorite George A. Romero?s Knightriders (1981). Two years later, he got his first taste of critical acclaim, playing astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983). Also that year, he made his New York stage debut in Sam Shepard?s ?Fool for Love?, a performance that earned him an Obie for Outstanding Actor. Harris? career gathered momentum after that. In 2000, he made his debut as a director in the Oscar-winning film Pollock (2000).

Ed Harris family photo

Early and personal life:
Harris was born in Englewood Hospital, in Englewood, New Jersey, and raised in Tenafly, the son of Margaret, a travel agent, and Robert L. Harris, who sang with the Fred Waring chorus and worked at the bookstore of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Spencer. His parents were originally from Oklahoma. Harris was raised in a middle-class Presbyterian family. He graduated from Tenafly High School in 1969, where he played on the football team, serving as the team?s captain in his senior year. He was a star athlete in high school, and competed in athletics at Columbia University in 1969. Two years later his family moved to New Mexico, and he followed, after having discovered his interest in acting in various theater plays. He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma to study drama. After several successful roles in the local theater, he moved to Los Angeles, and enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts. He spent two years there, and graduated with a BFA. Harris?s wife is actress Amy Madigan. The couple married on 21 November 1983, while they were filming Places in the Heart in which they played an adulterous couple. They have a daughter, Lilly Dolores Harris, born in 1993.

Cleaner movie still

Career:
Harris?s first important film role was in Borderline with Charles Bronson. In Knightriders (1981), he played the king of a motorcycle-riding renaissance-fair troupe in a role modeled after King Arthur.

Salvation Boulevard movie still

In 1983, Harris became well known, after playing astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff. Twelve years later, a film with a similar theme led to Harris being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of NASA flight director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13. Further Oscar nominations arrived in 1999, 2001, and 2003, for The Truman Show, Pollock, and The Hours, respectively. Harris also portrayed a German Army sniper, Major Erwin K?nig, in Enemy at the Gates (2001). He appeared as a vengeful mobster in David Cronenberg?s A History of Violence (2005) and as a police officer alongside Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman, in Gone, Baby, Gone (2007), directed by Ben Affleck. Also in 2007, he appeared in National Treasure: Book of Secrets as antagonist Mitch Wilkinson. Along with theatrical films, he has starred in television adaptations of Riders of the Purple Sage (1996) and Empire Falls (2005).

Viggo Mortensen, Scriptwriter Robert Knott and Ed Harris

Harris made his cinema directing debut in 2000, with Pollock, in which he starred as the acclaimed American artist Jackson Pollock.[1] He has also portrayed such diverse real-life characters as William Walker, a 19th Century American who appointed himself president of Nicaragua, in the film Walker, Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt in the Oliver Stone biopic Nixon, composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the film Copying Beethoven, and Senator John McCain in HBO?s made-for-television drama Game Change.

Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Lily Harris

Harris has directed a number of theater productions as well as having an active stage acting career. Most notably, he starred in the production of Neil LaBute?s one-man play Wrecks at the Public Theater in New York City and later at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. For the LA production, he won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award. Wrecks premiered at the Everyman Theater in Cork, Ireland and then in the US at the Public Theater in New York. Harris and wife Amy Madigan starred together in Ash Adams? indie crime drama Once Fallen, alongside Brian Presley, Sharon Gless, Adams himself, and a large all-star cast. It was released in 2010.

Ed Harris. Ed Harris attends to 35th Annual Saturn awards

Anti SAG/AFTRA merger:
On 30 March 2012, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) completed a merger of equals to form a new union SAG-AFTRA. Harris along with former SAG President Edward Asner, Martin Sheen, Valerie Harper as well as voice actors Michael Bell and Wendy Schall to name a few are adamantly opposed to such a merger and have filed a lawsuit against SAG President Ken Howard and several SAG Vice Presidents seeking to have the merger overturned and the two unions separated to their pre-merger organizations. The lawsuit is currently working its way through the court system.

Ed Harris at the premiere of the fact-based thriller The Way Back, held at Mayfair?s Curzon cinema

Filmography:
Pain and Gain (2014)
Sweetwater (2014) (2014)
The Look of Love (2013)
Phantom (2012)
The Geography of Hope (2012)
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Game Change (2011)
That?s What I Am (2011)
Salvation Boulevard (2011)
The Way Back (2011) (2011)
Once Fallen (2010)
What?s Wrong with Virginia (2010)
Appaloosa (2008)
Cleaner (2008)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Winston (2007)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Copying Beethoven (2006)
Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Winter Passing (2005)
Empire Falls (2005) ? TM
A History of Violence (2005)
Radio (2003)
The Human Stain (2003)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Just a Dream (2002)
The Hours (2002)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
Pollock (2000)
The Prime Gig (2000)
Waking the Dead (2000)
The Third Miracle (1999)
Stepmom (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
Absolute Power (1997)
The Rock (1996)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1996) ? TM
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Just Cause (1995)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Nixon (1995)
Milk Money (1994)
The Stand (1994) ? TV
China Moon (1994)
The Firm (1993)
Needful Things (1993)
Running Mates (1992) ? TM aka Dirty Tricks
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Paris Trout (1991) ? TM
State of Grace (1990)
The Abyss (1989)
Jacknife (1989)
To Kill a Priest (1988)
Walker (1987)
The Last Innocent Man (1987) ? TM
Sweet Dreams (1985)
Code Name: Emerald (1985)
Alamo Bay (1985)
A Flash of Green (1984)
Places in the Heart (1984)
Swing Shift (1984)
Under Fire (1983)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Creepshow (1982)
Knightriders (1981)
Dream On! (1981)
The Aliens Are Coming (1980) ? TM
Borderline (1980)
The Seekers (1979) ? TM
Coma (1978)
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) ? TM

Ed Harris Awards

Awards:
Academy Awards, USA
2003
Got nomination for Oscar
category Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Hours (2002)
2001
Got nomination for Oscar
category Best Actor in a Leading Role for Pollock (2000)
1999
Got nomination for Oscar
category Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Truman Show (1998)
1996
Got nomination for Oscar
category Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Apollo 13 (1995)

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1999
Got nomination for Saturn Award
category Best Supporting Actor for The Truman Show (1998)
1991
Got nomination for Saturn Award
category Best Actor for The Abyss (1989)

BAFTA Awards
2003
Got nomination for BAFTA Film Award
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for The Hours (2002)
1999
Got nomination for BAFTA Film Award
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for The Truman Show (1998)

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1999
Won Blockbuster Entertainment Award
category Favorite Supporting Actor ? Drama for The Truman Show (1998)

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
1996
Won BFCA Award
category Best Supporting Actor (For several films)

Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards
2005
Won Camie Award
for Radio (2003)
shared with Todd Garner; Michael Tollin; Mike Rich

Drama Desk Awards
2007
Got nomination for Drama Desk Award
category Outstanding Solo Performance for ?Wrecks?

Emmy Awards
2005
Got nomination for Emmy
category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Empire Falls (2005) (TV)

Golden Globes, USA
2006
Got nomination for Golden Globe
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for Empire Falls (2005) (TV)
2003
Got nomination for Golden Globe
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for The Hours (2002)
1999
Won Golden Globe
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for The Truman Show (1998)
1996
Got nomination for Golden Globe
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Apollo 13 (1995)
1990
Got nomination for Golden Globe
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Jacknife (1989)

Las Palmas Film Festival
2007
Won Harimaguada Award of Honour

National Board of Review, USA
1998
Won NBR Award
category Best Supporting Actor for The Truman Show (1998)

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
2006
Won NSFC Award
category Best Supporting Actor for A History of Violence (2005)

Online Film Critics Society Awards
1999
Got nomination for OFCS Award
category Best Supporting Actor for The Truman Show (1998)

Outer Critics Circle Awards
2007
Got nomination for Outer Critics Circle Award
category Outstanding Solo Performance for ?Wrecks?

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
2003
Got nomination for PFCS Award
category Best Acting Ensemble for The Hours (2002)
shared with Toni Collette; Claire Danes; Jeff Daniels

San Francisco International Film Festival
2006
Won Peter J. Owens Award

Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2008
Won Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film

Satellite Awards
2005
Got nomination for Satellite Award
category Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television for Empire Falls (2005) (TV)
2002
Got nomination for Golden Satellite Award
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
2001
Got nomination for Golden Satellite Award
category Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for Pollock (2000)

Screen Actors Guild Awards
2006
Got nomination for Actor Award
category Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for Empire Falls (2005) (TV)
2003
Got nomination for Actor Award
category Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for The Hours (2002)
2003
Got nomination for Actor Award
category Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture for The Hours (2002)
shared with Toni Collette; Claire Danes; Jeff Daniels
2002
Got nomination for Actor Award
category Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
shared with Paul Bettany; Jennifer Connelly; Russell Crowe
1997
Got nomination for Actor Award
category Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for Riders of the Purple Sage (1996) (TV)
1996
Won Actor Award
category Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Apollo 13 (1995)

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
1999
Won SEFCA Award
category Best Supporting Actor for The Truman Show (1998)
1996
Won SEFCA Award
category Best Supporting Actor for Apollo 13 (1995)

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2001
Won TFCA Award
category Best Actor for Pollock (2000)

Valladolid International Film Festival
1992
Won Valladolid Best Actor
for Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
shared with Al Pacino; Jack Lemmon; Kevin Spacey

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