Ed Harris

American actor Ed Allen Harris was born on November 28, 1950 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. He was the second of three children in the family. As a child, he was fond of baseball and American football, thanks to which he entered the prestigious Columbia University. But the sports career quickly bored Edda, and he and his parents go to Oklahoma, where he enters the University of Oklahoma. There he is fond of theater and soon drops out for the stage. In Los Angeles, where Ed soon moved, he gets small more

American actor Ed Allen Harris was born on November 28, 1950 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. He was the second of three children in the family. As a child, he was fond of baseball and American football, thanks to which he entered the prestigious Columbia University. But the sports career quickly bored Edda, and he and his parents go to Oklahoma, where he enters the University of Oklahoma. There he is fond of theater and soon drops out for the stage. In Los Angeles, where Ed soon moved, he gets small roles on television, and after a while he begins to be invited to the movies. He does not give up work in the theater.

A science fiction film by James Cameron The Abyss brings Edda Harris worldwide popularity, and offers to shoot are showered like a cornucopia.

The actor was nominated for Oscar four times: for his roles in films Apollo 13. . The Truman Show , "Pollok" and "The clock" . Also, his filmography includes more than 70 films, including such outstanding as “The Rock”, “Games of the Mind”, “Enemy at the Gates”, "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" .

In 2000 he made his debut as an Oscar-winning film director. Polok . The film tells about the life of American artist Jackson Pollock, traces the main stages of his life and ends with a tragic death in a car accident. Ed Harris held not only the chair of the director, but also was the performer of the main role.
In 1983, on the set of the film “Places in the Heart” met actress Emmy Madigan, who soon married him. Ten years later, the couple had a daughter Lily.
According to Harris, he would love to play Jesus in The Last Passion of Christ and Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs.
In 2001, People magazine included him in the list of 50 most beautiful people in the world.