Ed Harris
Acting
- Born:
- 1950-11-28
- Place of birth:
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and director. 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), Under Fire (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Radio (2003), 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 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 earned 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.
Known For
Filmography
Long Day's Journey into Night
The Dink
Dutton Ranch
How to Make a Killing
Off the Horse
Riff Raff
Concrete
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
My Dead Friend Zoe
Love Lies Bleeding
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
Downtown Owl
Get Away If You Can
Top Gun: Maverick
The Lost Daughter
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
Resistance
The Last Full Measure
The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power
A Crooked Somebody
Geostorm
mother!
Kodachrome
Buried Child
Rules Don't Apply
In Dubious Battle
Westworld
The Adderall Diaries
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
Run All Night
Cymbeline
Frontera
Planes: Fire & Rescue
The Face of Love
Sweetwater
Gravity
Snowpiercer
Pain & Gain
Phantom
Game Change
Man on a Ledge
Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero
Salvation Boulevard
That's What I Am
The Way Back
Once Fallen
Virginia
Appaloosa
Touching Home
Dispatches from Nicaragua
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
Gone Baby Gone
Cleaner
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Copying Beethoven
The Armenian Genocide
Two Tickets to Paradise
The Oklahoma Heisman
Winter Passing
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
A History of Violence
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
Empire Falls
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Human Stain
Radio
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
Masked and Anonymous
Realizing The Right Stuff
The Hours
Buffalo Soldiers
Just a Dream
A Beautiful Mind
The Prime Gig
Enemy at the Gates
Pollock
Waking the Dead
The Third Miracle
The Early Show
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
Stepmom
Junket Whore
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
The Truman Show
The View
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Absolute Power
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
The Daily Show
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
The Rock
Riders of the Purple Sage
Eye for an Eye
Nixon
Apollo 13
Just Cause
Baseball
Milk Money
Inside the Actors Studio
The Stand
China Moon
Frasier
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
Needful Things
The Firm
Running Mates
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Paris Trout
State of Grace
Jacknife
The Abyss
To Kill a Priest
Walker
The Last Innocent Man
Sweet Dreams
Code Name: Emerald
Alamo Bay
A Flash of Green
Places in the Heart
Swing Shift
Under Fire
The Right Stuff
Reading Rainbow
Creepshow
Cassie & Co.
American Playhouse
Dream on!
Knightriders
Borderline
The Aliens Are Coming
Paris
Hart to Hart
The Seekers
David Cassidy: Man Under Cover
Coma
Lou Grant
CHiPs
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Gibbsville
Delvecchio
The Rockford Files
Great Performances
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
School for the Blind
War on Wolves
Ashley Wright
The Ploughmen
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Fire & Rescue