
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