Edward Norton

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August 18, 1969

Edward Harrison Norton

He dated singer Courtney Love from 1996 to 1999

Dated Salma Hayek. [1999-2003]

Actor

2012 The Bourne Legacy

2012 Moonrise Kingdom

2010 Stone

2009 Modern Family (TV series)

2009 Leaves of Grass

2009 The Invention of Lying

2008 Pride and Glory

2008 The Incredible Hulk

2006 The Painted Veil

2006 The Illusionist

2005 Down in the Valley

2005 Kingdom of Heaven

2003 The Italian Job

2002 25th Hour

2002 Red Dragon

2002 Frida

2002 Death to Smoochy

2001 The Score

2000 The Simpsons (TV series)(voice)

2000 Keeping the Faith

1999 Fight Club

1998 American History X

1998 Rounders

1996 Everyone Says I Love You

1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996 Primal Fear

1994 Only in America (video)

Producer

2012 Thanks for Sharing (executive producer)

2011 Undaunted Courage (TV series) (producer)

2009 Leaves of Grass (producer)

2009 By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (documentary) (producer)

2006 The Painted Veil (producer)

2005 Down in the Valley (producer)

2004 Dirty Work (documentary) (executive producer)

2002 25th Hour (co-producer)

2000 Keeping the Faith (producer)

Director

2000 Keeping the Faith

Editor

2005 Down in the Valley

Cinematographer

2003 The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition (TV documentary)

Appearances

2011 Salinger (documentary)

2010 Huckabee (TV series)

2009-2010 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV series)

2010 Sidewalks Entertainment (TV series)

2009-2010 Tavis Smiley (TV series)

2010 George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (TV series)

2006-2010 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series)

2010 AMC News Special: Toronto Film Festival 2010 (TV special)

2001-2010 The Daily Show (TV series)

2010 SXSW Flashback 2010 (TV movie)

2010 The Rotten Tomatoes Show (TV series)

2010 Asia Uncut with Jon Niermann (TV series)

2009 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts

1998-2009 The Charlie Rose Show (TV series)

2008-2009 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)

2009 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)

2009 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV series)

1998-2009 Larry King Live (TV series)

2009 Bustin' Down the Door (documentary) (Narrator)

2009 Spike's Guys Choice (TV special)

2009 Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush (TV special)

2009 Source of Pride: The Making of 'Pride and Glory' (documentary)

2008 The Girls Next Door (TV series)

2008 Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV series)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: An Incredible Evolution (video documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Hulking Out in Harlem (documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Becoming the Abomination (video documentary short)

2008 The Making of 'The Incredible Hulk' (video short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk That Wasn't There (video documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Hulking Out on Campus (documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Being Green (video documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Becoming the Hulk (video documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Scene Explorer (video documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Creating Hulk Comic Books (video documentary short)

2008 The Incredible Hulk: Hulking Out in the Bottling Plant (documentary short)

2006-2008 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV series)
2008 Charity Poker Festival (TV special)

2003-2008 Sunday Morning Shootout (TV series)

2008 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)

2008 2008 MTV Movie Awards (TV special)

2007 Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (documentary)

2007 Brando (TV documentary)

2007 Live with Regis and Kelly (TV series)

2006 The View (TV series)

2006 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV series)

2006 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)

2006 Cinema 3 (TV series)

2006 Cartelera (TV series)

2006 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)

2006 Movie Rush (TV series documentary)

2005 Stella (TV series)

2005 Comme au cinéma (TV series documentary)

2005 Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV series)

2005 Strange Days on Planet Earth (TV series documentary) (voice)

2004 After the Sunset (uncredited)

2004 Biography (TV series documentary)

2003 The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition (TV documentary) Narrator

2003 God kveld Norge (TV series)

2003 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Robert De Niro (TV special)

2003 Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (video documentary short)

2003 A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' (video documentary short)

2003 The 75th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1999-2003 Saturday Night Live (TV series)

2003 The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)

2003 Inside the Actors Studio (TV series)

2003 Declaration of Independence (video documentary short)

2002 Comedy Central Canned Ham (TV series)

2002 Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (TV documentary)

2002 Inside 'Red Dragon' (TV documentary short)

2001 Making 'The Score' (video documentary short)

2001 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
(voice)

2001 2001: A Year with Cal Ripken Jr. (TV documentary)

2001 The Concert for New York City (TV special documentary)

2001 Independence Day 2001 (TV movie)

2000 The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

2000 On Location: Fight Club (video documentary short)

1999 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (TV special documentary)

1999 The American Film Institute Salute to Dustin Hoffman (TV special documentary)

1999 The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1999 The Directors (TV series documentary)

1999 Forever Hollywood (TV documentary)

1998 Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business (TV mini-series documentary)

1998 The 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)

1998 Out of the Past (documentary) (voice)

1997 The 69th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1997 The 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards (TV special)

Academy Awards

1999 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role
for: American History X (1998).

1997 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: Primal Fear (1996).

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

1999 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actor for: American History X (1998).

1997 Nominated Saturn Award Best Supporting Actor
for: Primal Fear (1996).

BAFTA Awards

1997 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for: Primal Fear (1996).

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

2000 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Action Team for: Fight Club (1999).

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

1996 Won BSFC Award Best Supporting Actor
for: The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Primal Fear (1996) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996).

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

1999 Nominated CFCA Award Best Actor for: American History X (1998).

1997 Won CFCA Award Most Promising Actor for: Primal Fear (1996), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996).

1997 Nominated CFCA Award Best Supporting Actor for: Primal Fear (1996).

Chlotrudis Awards

1999 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Actor for: American History X (1998).

Emmy Awards

2010 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Nonfiction Special
for: By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009).

Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

1997 Won FFCC Award Best Supporting Actor for: Primal Fear (1996), Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).

Golden Globes

1997 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: Primal Fear (1996).

Gotham Awards

2006 Won Tribute Award

Independent Spirit Awards

2007 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best Male Lead for: The Painted Veil (2006).

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

1997 Won KCFCC Award Best Supporting Actor for: Primal Fear (1996).

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1996 Won LAFCA Award Best Supporting Actor for: Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Primal Fear (1996) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).

MTV Movie Awards

2000 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Fight for: Fight Club (1999). For fighting against himself.

1997 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Villain for: Primal Fear (1996).

National Board of Review, USA

1996 Won NBR Award Best Supporting Actor for: Everyone Says I Love You (1996).

National Movie Awards, UK

2008 Nominated National Movie Award Best Performance - Male for: The Incredible Hulk (2008).

Online Film Critics Society Awards

2000 Nominated OFCS Award Best Actor for: Fight Club (1999).

1999 Nominated OFCS Award Best Actor for: American History X (1998).

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

2006 Won Special Award for: The Illusionist (2006), The Painted Veil (2006) and Down in the Valley (2005).
For the body of work.

Sant Jordi Awards

2004 Won Sant Jordi Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero) for: 25th Hour (2002).

Satellite Awards

2005 Nominated Satellite Award Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama for: Kingdom of Heaven (2005).

2003 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
for: 25th Hour (2002).

2001 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical for: Keeping the Faith (2000).

1999 Won Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: American History X (1998).

Society of Texas Film Critics Awards

1996 Won STFC Award Best Supporting Actor for: The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Primal Fear (1996).

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards

1999 Won SEFCA Award Best Actor for: American History X (1998) and Rounders (1998).

1997 Won SEFCA Award Best Supporting Actor for: Primal Fear (1996), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996).

Street Film Festival, Milan

2000 Won Street Award Best Feature Film for: Keeping the Faith (2000).

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When the courtroom drama Primal Fear (1996) was released, twenty-seven-year-old Yale University history graduate Edward Norton was a regionally known theater actor with the Signature Players, a New York company set up to produce Edward Albee's plays; he still serves as a board director. Thus acclaimed, he blew audiences away as Aaron Stampler, an altar boy accused of killing a Catholic bishop. An Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor followed, opening the door to roles as the love-struck Holden Spence opposite Drew Barrymore in Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and a lawyer in Milos Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996); but the essential Norton was already on display, charming and boyish, solicitous even, while also cold-blooded and smarter than everyone else.

A challenging actor, he electrified critics in American History X (1998), in which he beefed up to play a violent skinhead. The role won him his second Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actor. Now muscular and no longer bungling, he followed iwth David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), a fin de siecle masterstroke; made his directorial debut in the comedy Keeping the Faith (2000), which he also produced, cowrote, and starred in; appeared in the biopic Frida (2002); headlined Red Dragon (2002) and 25th Hour (2002); and was a masked supporting player in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). He then went on to play a magician in early-1900s Vienna in The Illusionist (2006), showing he can turn his hand to costume drama. Norton is the type of actor who is choosy about roles, strict about preparation, and at times difficult to work with; yet it is a small price to pay for the leading talent of his generation, a chameleon with an eye for great projects.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Turned down the role of Private Ryan in Saving Private Ryan (1998).

He speaks Spanish

Auditioned for roles in With Honors (1994), Hackers (1995), and Up Close & Personal (1996) before his film debut in Primal Fear (1996).

Salary

The Italian Job (2003) $1,000,000

25th Hour (2002) $500,000

Red Dragon (2002) $6,500,000

Death to Smoochy (2002) $8,000,000

The Score (2001) $6,500,000

Primal Fear (1996) $50,000