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Harris's wife is actress [[Amy Madigan]]. The couple married on Monday, November 21, 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.<ref>[http://www.superiorpics.com/updates/20081007/Harris_sd620080929.html The Lily Dolores Harris picture]</ref> |
Harris's wife is actress [[Amy Madigan]]. The couple married on Monday, November 21, 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.<ref>[http://www.superiorpics.com/updates/20081007/Harris_sd620080929.html The Lily Dolores Harris picture]</ref> |
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Harris and his wife appeared at a pro-choice rally for the [[National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League]] in January 21, 2003, held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the [[Roe v. Wade]] case.<ref>http://www.life.com/image/1737854</ref> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Revision as of 14:11, 8 January 2012
Ed Harris | |
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 Harris at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival | |
| Born | Edward Allen Harris November 28, 1950 Englewood, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Spouse | Amy Madigan (1983–present) |
Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his performances in Appaloosa, The Rock, The Abyss, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, and The Truman Show. Harris has also narrated commercials for The Home Depot and other companies. He is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, along with an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for the title role in Pollock.
Early and personal life
Harris was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and raised in Tenafly,[1] 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.[2] He has an older brother, Robert, and a younger brother, Spencer. Harris was raised in a middle-class Presbyterian family.[3][4][5] 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.[6][7] 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.
Harris's wife is actress Amy Madigan. The couple married on Monday, November 21, 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.[8]
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 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. He also portrayed a German sniper, Major Erwin König, in Enemy at the Gates. 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 antagonist 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 appointed himself president of Nicaragua, in the film Walker; Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt in the Oliver Stone biopic Nixon and composer Ludwig van 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 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.
Filmography
References
- ^ "Ed Harris". Inside the Actors Studio. Bravo.
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- ^ Stein, Ruthe (January 9, 2000). "Ed Harris Has the Righteous Stuff, Too: Actor plays a particularly convincing priest in `The Third Miracle'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 10, 2007.
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- ^ 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."
- ^ The Lily Dolores Harris picture
- ^ "Ed Harris-Awards". http://www.imdb.com. Retrieved 06-03-2011.
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External links
- Ed Harris at IMDb
- Ed Harris at the TCM Movie Database
- Ed Harris at the Internet Broadway Database
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- 1950 births
- American film actors
- American Presbyterians
- Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners
- Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- Columbia University alumni
- Drama Desk Award winners
- Living people
- Actors from New Jersey
- People from Tenafly, New Jersey
- University of Oklahoma alumni