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Ed Harris - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Ed Harris was born into an American family in Englewood on November 28, 1950. The actor spent his childhood and early youth in the city of Tenafly. Ed has been actively involved in sports since childhood and, having received a sports scholarship, enters Columbia University. After some time, the young man quits his studies and decides to continue it in Oklahoma. But even here Harris does not stay for long - his search for success attracts him to Los Angeles, where he begins his acting career.
The first roles of Ed Harris were subtle - by and large, he gained experience, acting in serials, in episodic roles. Since 1978, the actor has appeared on the big screen, but his roles are again insignificant. Films belong to this period: Coma, Border Strip, Knights on Wheels, Kaleidoscope of Horrors. In 1983, the film Guys - What You Need was released, in which Ed Harris gets the prominent role of the hero-astronaut John Glenn.
Until 1989, the actor starred in eleven more films, but real success was brought to him by the main role in the adventure fantasy thriller The Abyss. The film brought Ed Harris worldwide popularity and a lot of proposals from directors. In 1992, he played the role of a real estate agent in the film Americans, won the prize of the Valladolid Film Festival.
In 1995, a sensational historical film with Ed Harris, Apollo 13, was released. Harris' character Gene Krantz received a prize and two nominations for prestigious film awards thanks to this film, which tells about the failed flight to the moon.
Various awards and nominations were also awarded for the role of an actor in the film drama The Truman Show, the biopic Pollock, the motion picture A Beautiful Mind, the drama The Clock, the motion picture Empire Falls, the biographical drama The Game Has Changed.
Ed Harris is also known as the director of the Pollock film, the director and screenwriter of the Appaloosa film.
Ed Harris is married to actress Amy Madigan, the couple has a daughter.
Ed Harris has gray eyes, naturally blond hair, fair skin and medium lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is high, the hair is straight, soft. Ed Harris does not change his hair color, giving preference to natural. The actor has a medium straight nose and a square chin. The actor's height is 175 cm, no tattoos.
