Ed Harris

Acting

Born: 1950-11-28

From: Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 4.9

Also Known As

Edward Allen Harris

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.

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Awards & Nominations17 won · 32 nominated

🏆 Won

New Jersey Hall of Fame

2019

🏆 Won

Sitges Grand Honorary Award

2018

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

Game Change

2013

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Game Change

2013

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

Game Change

2012

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show

2007

Nominated

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast

Gone Baby Gone

2007

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Empire Falls

2006

🏆 Won

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor

A History of Violence

2005

Nominated

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor

A History of Violence

2005

Nominated

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

Empire Falls

2005

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Hours

2003

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

The Hours

2003

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Hours

2003

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

The Hours

2003

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

A Beautiful Mind

2002

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

The Hours

2002

🏆 Won

Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

Pollock

2001

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actor

Pollock

2001

Nominated

Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture

Pollock

2001

🏆 Won

Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Truman Show

1999

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Truman Show

1999

Nominated

Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Truman Show

1999

Nominated

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Truman Show

1999

Nominated

Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Truman Show

1999

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

The Truman Show

1998

🏆 Won

National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Truman Show

1998

Nominated

National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Truman Show

1998

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

The Truman Show

1998

Nominated

Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Truman Show

1998

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Riders of the Purple Sage

1997

🏆 Won

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Apollo 13

1996

🏆 Won

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Apollo 13

1996

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Apollo 13

1996

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Apollo 13

1996

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Apollo 13

1996

Nominated

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Nixon

1996

🏆 Won

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

Apollo 13

1995

🏆 Won

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor

1995

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Apollo 13

1995

Nominated

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor

Apollo 13

1995

Nominated

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

Jacknife

1989

🏆 Won

Theatre World Award

1986

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

1986

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

1986

Nominated

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

1986

🏆 Won

Saturn Awards

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Awards

🏆 Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Ed Harris

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations17 won · 32 nominated

Acting145 titles

Long Day's Journey into Night

Gibbsville

Dutton Ranch

Realizing The Right Stuff

Reading Rainbow

The Truman Show

Top Gun: Maverick

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

Westworld

America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero

The Seekers

A Beautiful Mind

Frasier

Inside the Actors Studio

The Rockford Files

Apollo 13

Baseball

Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party

Enemy at the Gates

The Abyss

The Right Stuff

The Hours

Gone Baby Gone

Glengarry Glen Ross

Radio

The Last Full Measure

Lou Grant

A History of Violence

Stepmom

The Rock

Places in the Heart

Gravity

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

Golden Globe Awards

How to Make a Killing

The Way Back

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

mother!

The Armenian Genocide

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'

The Oscars

Delvecchio

Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War

State of Grace

Nixon

Creepshow

Game Change

Snowpiercer

Resistance

CHiPs

Hart to Hart

Coma

That's What I Am

Kodachrome

The Stand

Absolute Power

Under Fire

Pollock

The Firm

Tru-Talk

The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power

Appaloosa

Code Name: Emerald

Copying Beethoven

Sweet Dreams

Touching Home

Love Lies Bleeding

Frontera

The Lost Daughter

Empire Falls