Ed Harris
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 Harris at the premiere of A History of Violence at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2005 |
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| Born | Edward Allen Harris November 28, 1950 Tenafly, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Spouse(s) | Amy Madigan (1983-) | ||||||||||
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Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, known for his performances in The Rock, The Right Stuff, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Apollo 13, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and The Truman Show, among many others.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early & personal life
Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, 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.[1] He has an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Spencer. Harris was raised in a middle class Presbyterian family.[2][3][4] 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.[5][6] 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 New Mexico to study drama. After several successful roles in the local theater, he moved to Los Angeles, California, and enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts.
Harris has been married to actress Amy Madigan since 1989. They have a daughter named Lily.
[edit] Career
Harris's first important film role was in Borderline with Charles Bronson. In Knightriders he played the king of a motorcycle-riding renaissance-fair troupe in a role modeled after King Arthur.
In 1983, the actor became a star, 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 mission director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13.
Further Oscar nominations arrived in 1999, 2001 and 2003, for The Truman Show, Pollock and The Hours, respectively. More recently, he appeared as a vengeful mobster in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence and as a police officer alongside Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman in Gone, Baby, Gone, directed by Ben Affleck. In 2007, he appeared in National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Mitch Wilkinson.
Along with theatrical films, he has starred in television adaptations of Riders of the Purple Sage (1996) and Empire Falls (2005).
Harris made his cinema directing debut in 2000 with Pollock, in which he starred as the acclaimed American artist Jackson Pollock. He also has portrayed such diverse real-life characters as William Walker, a 19th Century American who became president of Nicaragua in the film Walker; Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt in the Oliver Stone biopic Nixon and composer Ludwig von Beethoven in the film Copying Beethoven.
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. Wrecks premiered at the Everyman Theater in Cork, Ireland and then in the US at the Public Theater in New York. He has been nominated for several major awards for this role.[citation needed]
[edit] Awards and nominations
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor, Apollo 13 (1995)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor, The Truman Show (1998)
- Nominated: Best Actor, Pollock (2000)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor, The Hours (2002)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor, The Truman Show (1999)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor, The Hours (2003)
- Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, Empire Falls (2005)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, Jacknife (1990)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, Apollo 13 (1996)
- Won: Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, The Truman Show (1999)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, The Hours (2003)
- Nominated: Best Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Empire Falls (2006)
[edit] Other Awards
- 2006 - At the San Francisco International Film Festival, Harris received the Peter J. Owens Award,[7] which honors an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity. A Flash of Green[8] was screened at the festival in his honor.
[edit] Filmography
- Coma (1978)
- Borderline (1980)
- Knightriders (1981)
- Dream On! (1981)
- Creepshow (1982)
- The Right Stuff (1983) -- as John Glenn
- Under Fire (1983)
- Swing Shift (1984)
- Places in the Heart (1984)
- A Flash of Green (1984)
- Code Name: Emerald (1985)
- Alamo Bay (1985)
- Sweet Dreams (1985)
- Walker (1987)
- The Last Innocent Man (1987)
- To Kill a Priest (1988)
- Jacknife (1989)
- The Abyss (1989)
- State of Grace (1990)
- Paris Trout (1991)
- Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
- The Firm (1993)
- Needful Things (1993)
- Milk Money (1994)
- China Moon (1994)
- The Stand (1994)
- Nixon (1995)
- Apollo 13 (1995) - as Gene Kranz
- Just Cause (1995)
- The Rock (1996)
- Eye for an Eye (1996)
- Absolute Power (1997)
- Stepmom (1998)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- The Third Miracle (1999)
- Pollock (2000) -- as Jackson Pollock
- The Prime Gig (2000)
- Waking the Dead (2000)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
- Enemy at the Gates (2001)
- The Hours (2002)
- Radio (2003)
- The Human Stain (2003)
- Masked and Anonymous (2003)
- Empire Falls (2005)
- Winter Passing (2005)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- Copying Beethoven (2006)
- Gone Baby Gone (2007)
- Cleaner (2007)
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
- Touching Home (2008)
- Appaloosa (2008)
[edit] References
- ^ Ed Harris Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- ^ Stein, Ruthe. "Ed Harris Has the Righteous Stuff, Too: Actor plays a particularly convincing priest in `The Third Miracle'", San Francisco Chronicle, 2000-01-09. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- ^ Pearlman, Cindy. "Love the sinner: Harris repents for `money' roles", Chicago Sun-Times, 2000-02-06. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- ^ Ed Harris Biography
- ^ Rohan, Virginia. "North Jersey-bred and talented too", The Record (Bergen County), June 18, 2007. Accessed June 25, 2007. "Ed Harris: Class of 1969, Tenafly High School"
- ^ Stein, Ruthe. They're Ready For Their Close-Ups: Camped out at Oscars, the starstruck wait to sneak a peek, San Francisco Chronicle, March 25, 2001. Accessed May 31, 2007. "She's hoping to score a seat near the front and catch the eye of Oscar nominee Ed Harris, who went to Tenafly High School in New Jersey with her mother."
- ^ AWARDS | OWENS AWARD | San Francisco Film Festival
- ^ A Flash of Green | San Francisco Film Festival
[edit] External links
- Ed Harris at the Internet Movie Database
- Ed Harris at the TCM Movie Database
- Ed Harris at the Internet Broadway Database
- Ed Harris clippings
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by John Lithgow for Requiem for a Heavyweight |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play 1985-1986 for Precious Sons |
Succeeded by James Earl Jones for Fences |
| Preceded by Martin Landau for Ed Wood |
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 1995 for Apollo 13 |
Succeeded by Cuba Gooding Jr. for Jerry Maguire |
| Preceded by Burt Reynolds for Boogie Nights |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 1999 for The Truman Show |
Succeeded by Tom Cruise for Magnolia |
