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Ed Harris most recently won acclaim in his supporting role in Chris Columbus' Stepmom, opposite Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. He also garnered an Academy Award nomination, and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, and National Review Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for The Truman Show and Stepmom. Harris will next star as the famous abstract painter in Jackson Pollack, which he also is directing.Harris previously was honored with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role as astronaut Gene Krantz in Ron Howard's Apollo 13, also winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. His credits also include Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power, Michael Bay's The Rock, John Schlesinger's Eye for an Eye and Anne Glimcher's Just Cause. Among his other films are Borderline, Knightriders, The Right Stuff, The Firm, Glengarry Glen Ross, State of Grace, The Abyss, Jacknife, To Kill a Priest for Agnieszka Holland, Walker, Sweet Dreams, Alamo Bay, A Flash of Green, Swing Shift, Under Fire, Milk Money and China Moon.
On television, Harris has starred in HBO's "The Last Innocent Man" and "Running Mates," as well as Showtime's "Paris Trout." He and his wife, Amy Madigan, co-produced and co-starred in a critically-acclaimed film adaptation of Zane Grey's "Riders of the Purple Sage" which premiered on TNT; Harris was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award as Best Actor for his performance.
Harris made his New York stage debut in Sam Shepard's "Fool For Love," for which he earned the 1993 Obie Award for Outstanding Actor. He earned a Tony nomination and the Drama Desk Award for his Broadway debut in George Furth's "Precious Sons." Since then, Harris has won two Los Angeles Theater Critics Association Awards: the first for "Prairie Avenue" and the second for Murray Mednick's "Scar." His other Los Angeles stage credits include "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Grapes of Wrath," "Hamlet" and "Sweet Bird of Youth."
In the fall of 1994, Harris appeared off-Broadway in the New York Shakespeare Theater's production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico," for which Harris won a Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actor. He most recently returned to Broadway for a three-month run opposite Daniel Murray in Ronald Harwood's acclaimed drama "Taking Sides."
FILMOGRAPHY
2000 Pollock
1999 The Third Miracle
1998 The Truman Show
1998 Stepmom
1997 Absolute Power
1996 Eye for an Eye
1996 Riders of the Purple Sage (TV)
1996 The Rock
1995 Nixon
1995 Apollo 13
1995 Just Cause
1994 China Moon
1994 "The Stand" (TV Series)
1994 Milk Money
1993 The Firm
1993 Needful Things
1992 Running Mates (TV)
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross
1991 Paris Trout (TV)
1990 State of Grace
1989 The Abyss
1989 Jacknife
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