Edward Allen Harris

Ed Harris is an American actor and director. He gained popularity in the films The Abyss, Apollo 13, The Rock, The Truman Show, A Beautiful Mind, Justified Violence and Appaloosa. Ed Harris was nominated for an Oscar four times, but did not receive this statuette, but he won the Golden Globe twice.

Ed Harris was born on November 28, 1950 in the US state of New Jersey. His father worked as a shop assistant, sang in the choir in his free time, and after a while he opened his own shop. The mother of the future actor worked in a travel agency.

Ed's family was far from theater and cinema, so he did not think about the stage either. During his school years, he was more interested in sports. Harris played baseball and American football, showed good results. He even received a sports scholarship, which gave him the right to study at Columbia University - one of the best universities in America. The boy took this chance, but very soon a sports career and training ceased to interest him.

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Ed Harris tried to learn to play the violin, but quickly dropped out. As he himself says, he felt sorry for the dog, which, in horror from his game, hid in the far corner.

In 1971, Harris left the university and went to Oklahoma, where his family lived at the time. He enrolled in a local university, began participating in student performances, and got so carried away that he decided to become a famous actor in Hollywood. Hoping for good luck, Ed Harris dropped out of university, packed his suitcase and moved to Los Angeles. He still received a professional education, but later - graduated from the Institute of the Arts in California.

About his personal life Ed Harris is not frank with journalists and carefully hides it from the general public. So far, the actor succeeds. For a Hollywood star, he shows enviable consistency in marriage. He has lived with his wife Amy Madigan for 33 years. They met in the fall of 1983 while filming A Place in the Heart. This was not the only joint work of the spouses - together they starred in four more films.

Six months after the wedding, in the spring of 1983, Harris had a daughter, Lily Dolores. Now she is already an adult independent woman. Ed's family rarely appears in public, their photos do not flash on the Web and in the press.

The actor's favorite pastime is a dream, for which, due to a busy schedule, he does not have enough time. Most of all he values ​​freedom, but says that this is the state that is not shouted about at the crossroads. Ed Harris is a complex person. He says about himself that it is impossible to make friends with him in one evening. But he is cheerful and frank with old friends.

Ed considers the birth of his daughter his happiest day, but does not like to talk about his childhood. The actor jokes that he has not yet lived to the age when you want to remember it. He prefers to communicate with fans live - he has no pages on Instagram and other social networks.

Ed Harris began his career in big cinema with cameo roles in films and TV shows that were not popular with viewers. His first serious work was shooting in the movie "Coma", filmed in 1978. He had a small role, but he gave it 150 percent.

The next few years did not bring any progress in his career: he starred in low-budget projects. During this period, one can only single out the drama "Guys What You Need", which was released in 1983. The indifference of the directors did not particularly upset Ed Harris - he made up for it with theatrical roles.

In 1989, the situation changed when the actor was approved for the role in the thriller "The Abyss". After the release of the picture, fame fell on him, he became in demand and received several tempting offers from directors. Since then, he has starred in several projects a year.

In 1993, the actor starred in the Oscar-winning crime drama The Firm, starring Tom Cruise. The plot of the picture is based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham and tells about a law firm that secretly worked for the mafia clan.

In 1996, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris starred in Michael Bay's action movie The Rock. Harris played the role of Francis Hummel, Brigadier General of the United States Marine Corps and the commander of the FORECON Marine Corps ("Force Recon") in the Vietnam and First Iraqi Wars.

Hummel's detachment was carrying out secret missions, and later the commander found out that the families of the dead soldiers did not receive honors and compensation, since there were no secret missions according to official documents. The outraged comrades of the slain soldiers, led by the commander, kidnap missiles with the lethal VX gas, occupy the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz, and take a group of tourists hostage.

In that film, the peculiarity of Harris's appearance became clearly visible. The actor looked imposing, frightening and tall, despite the fact that Ed Harris's real height is 175 cm. Fans often compare him with other Hollywood stars Daniel Craig and Peter Weller, and indeed, there is an outward resemblance between them.

In 1998, Ed Harris played the role of director Christoph in the drama The Truman Show. This picture has become both the main confirmation of the dramatic talent of Hollywood comedian Jim Carrey, and the iconic film of Hollywood cinema. Homages and references regularly appear on the film, the disease was even named after the picture.

In the filmography of Ed Harris there are more than 70 vivid roles, the best of which he played in the films A Games of the Mind, The Clock, Radio, Justified Cruelty, Pollock, The Truman Show and others. The most ambitious project in the actor's career was the film "National Treasure - 2. Book of Secrets". The blockbuster was released worldwide in 2007 and grossed over $ 450 million - three times the film's budget.

In 2010, Ed was noted for the successful role of Mr. Smith in Peter Weir's drama "The Way Home".

Harris also worked on several projects as a producer. His first painting was "Riders of the Wormwood Prairie", released in 1996. He later contributed to the Appaloosa Westerns starring Viggo Mortensen and Inside Base Camp: Laurie Garrett.

In 2016, Ed Harris played the main negative role - the Man in the Black Hat - in the fantastic western "Westworld" (or "Western World" in another translation). The series is based on the plot of the 1973 film "Western World" by Michael Crichton.

Viggo Mortensen und Ed Harris verbindet mehr als zwei gemeinsame Filme. Beide sind ein Typ Schauspieler: kompromisslos ...

Both paintings are named after Western World, which invites visitors to take a safe journey through a Wild West-style city inhabited by humanoid robots that are programmed to execute a storyline and entertain guests. Each cycle, when the recorded plot ends, the robots are repaired and their memory erased. The main advantage of the park, which attracts visitors, is that you can do anything with robots, but in return they cannot harm a living person.

Three intertwining plots stand out in the series: the plot of Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), the robot girl who is constantly tormented by the Man in the Black Hat and who has mysterious glitches in the program, forcing the android to travel time after time, the mistress of the brothel Maeve (Thandie Newton) , which begins to memorize what it shouldn't, and the line of the creator of the park (Anthony Hopkins) and the workers of the park developing new lines of behavior for robots.

The premiere of the second season is scheduled for 2018. At the end of the series, the authors hinted that the second season would be dedicated to medieval Japan.

In 2016, Ed Harris appeared in the comedy melodrama Beyond the Rules, and in 2017 in the detective thriller Mom! The actor also worked on the sci-fi action movie Geostorm. The disaster film tells how, after a series of cataclysms, humanity launches a system of satellites to control the climate. But an error occurs in the satellite network, and the defense system becomes a threat to all life on Earth.

In 2019, the actor was busy filming the military drama The Last Frontier, dedicated to the Vietnam War. The film was released in January 2020.

Another piece of news from Harris was the announcement of the imminent release of Westworld season 3, in which Ed returned to the role of the Man in Black. The release of the picture was scheduled for the spring of 2020.

1987 - The Last Innocent 1989 - The Abyss 1993 - The Firm 1995 - Apollo 13 1996 - The Rock 1998 - The Truman Show 1999 - The Third Miracle 2001 - A Beautiful Mind 2002 - The Clock "2003 -" Radio "2006 -" Two tickets to paradise "2007 -" Cleaner "2008 -" Near the house "2011 -" That's what I am "2015 -" Night fugitive "2016 -" World of the Wild West "

2018 - Kodakhrom 2019 - Resistance 2020 - The Last Frontier

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