Ed Harris
1 FOLLOWER • 61 CREDITS • NOV 28, 1950 • 74
Biography
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations.
Harris has appeared in numerous leading and supporting roles, including in Creepshow (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), The Abyss (1989), State of Grace (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Needful Things (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), The Truman Show (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Mother! (2017), The Lost Daughter (2021), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). In addition to directing Pollock, Harris also directed the Western film Appaloosa (2008).
In television, Harris is notable for his roles as Miles Roby in the miniseries Empire Falls (2005) and as United States Senator John McCain in the television movie Game Change (2012), the latter earning him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor—Series, Miniseries, or Television Film. He starred as the Man in Black in the HBO science fiction-Western series Westworld (2016-2022), for which he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Known For
Tony Awards
The Rockford Files
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Golden Globe Awards
The Early Show
Frasier
The Daily Show
CHiPs
Lou Grant
Gibbsville
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Paris
The American West
Top Gun: Maverick
The Stand
The Oscars
The Hours
Masked and Anonymous
Westworld
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Man on a Ledge
The Firm
Snowpiercer
Waking the Dead
The Truman Show
Glengarry Glen Ross
Places in the Heart
Apollo 13
Geostorm
Pain & Gain
Nixon
Cassie & Co.
Enemy at the Gates
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
The Lost Daughter
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
Eye for an Eye
The Rock
A History of Violence
A Beautiful Mind
The Dink
My Dead Friend Zoe
Run All Night
Love Lies Bleeding
The Human Stain
Gravity
mother!
Stepmom
Sweet Dreams
Cleaner
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Milk Money
Radio
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
Resistance
Needful Things
Empire Falls
Planes: Fire & Rescue
The Last Innocent Man
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
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