Biography
Ed Harris is an American actor and director. He received popularity, starring in the pictures of "the abyss", "Apollo-13", "Rock", "Show Truman", "Mind games", "justified cruelty" and "appalusus". Ed Harris was nominated four times to Oscar, but did not receive this statuette, but twice became the owner of the Golden Globe Prize.Childhood and youth
Ed Harris was born on November 28, 1950 in the US state of New Jersey. His father worked as a seller in the store, he sang in his free time in the choir, and after a while he opened his own store. The mother of the future actor worked in a travel agency.
The family of Ed was far from the theater and cinema, so he did not think about the scene. In school years, he was more interested in sports. Harris was engaged in baseball and American football, showed good results. He even received a sports scholarship, which gave him the right to study at Columbia University - one of America's best universities. The boy took advantage of this chance, but soon the sports career and training ceased to interest him.
Ed Harris tried to learn to play a violin, but quickly stopped the lessons. As he himself says, regretted the dog, which is horrified by his game clogged into the far corner.
In 1971, Harris left his studies at the university and left for Oklahoma - his family lived there at that time. He entered the local university, began to participate in student performances and so fascinated that he decided to become a famous actor in Hollywood. In the hope of good luck, Ed Harris threw the university, gathered a suitcase and moved to Los Angeles. He still received a vocational education, but later - graduated from the Institute of Arts in California.
Personal life
The personal life of Ed Harris does not reveal with journalists and carefully hides it from the general public. While it is possible an actor. For the Hollywood Star, he demonstrates enviable constancy in marriage. With his wife, Amy Madigan, he lives for 33 years. They met in the fall of 1983 on the filming of the film "Place in the Heart". It was not the only joint job of spouses - together they starred in four films.Six months after the wedding, in the spring of 1983, Harris had daughter Lily Dolores. Now she is an adult independent woman. The family of Ed is rarely appearing in the public, their photos do not flasm online and press.
The favorite activity of the actor is a dream, which is not enough time because of a dense schedule. Most of all he appreciates freedom, but he says that this is the condition that is not shouting at the intersections. Ed Harris - a man with a complex character. He talks about himself that in one evening it is impossible to make friends with him. But with a long time, he is cheerful and frank.
His happiest day of ED considers the birth of a daughter, and he does not like to tell her childhood. The actor jokes, which has not lived before that age when I want to remember it. To communicate with fans, he prefers live - pages in "Instagram" and other social networks he has no.
Theater and films
Your creative biography in Big Cinema Ed Harris began with episodic roles in films and serials that did not enjoy the audience. Its first serious work was shooting in the picture "Coma", shot in 1978. He had a small role, but he laid out at 150 percent.
The next few years did not bring moving in his career: he starred in low-budget projects. During this period, it is possible to allocate that the drama "guys you need," published in 1983, can be distinguished. The indifference of the directorists did not particularly upset Ed Harris - he compensated for his theatrical roles.
In 1989, the situation has changed when the actor approved for a role in the "abyss" thriller. After entering the picture on the screens, Glory collapsed on him, he became in demand and received several tempting offers from directors. Since that time, he is filmed in several projects per year.
In 1993, the actor played in the Oscar-winning criminal drama "Firm" with Tom Cruise in the lead role. The plot of the paintings is based on the novel of John Grisha's novel and talks about a law firm, secretly who worked on the mafia clan.
In 1996, Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris performed the main roles in Michael Bay's militant. Harris performed the role of Francis Hammela, the brigade general of the US Marine Corps of the United States, the commander of the intelligence specialty of the Marine Corps Forecon ("Force Recon") in the Vietnamese and First Iraqi Wars.
The Hummela detachment performed secret tasks, and subsequently the commander learned that the families of the dead fighters did not receive honor and compensation, since there were no secret missions on official documents. The outrageous comrades of the killed soldiers led by the commander kidnap the rockets with a deadly gas gas VX, occupy an abandoned alcatrass island and take hostages a group of tourists.
In that film, the peculiarity of the appearance of Harris was noted. The actor looked the impressive, frightening and high, despite the fact that Ed Harris's real growth - 175 cm. Fans often compare it with other Hollywood stars Daniel Craig and St. Petersburg Weller, and indeed, there is an external similarity between them.
In 1998, Ed Harris played the role of director Christopa in the drama "Show Truman". This picture has become both the main confirmation of the dramatic talent of the Hollywood comedian comedian, Jim Kerry, and the iconic film of Hollywood cinema. Ommages and references appear on the film regularly appear, in honor of the painting even called the disease.
In the filmography Ed Harris is more than 70 bright roles, the best of them he played in the paintings of the "Mind Games", "Watches", "Radio", "justified cruelty", "Pollock", "Truman Show" and others. The most large-scale project in the career of the actor was the film "Treasure of the Nation - 2. Book of Secret". The blockbuster entered worldwide rental in 2007 and collected more than $ 450 million - this is three times more than the film budget.
In 2010, the ED marked the successful role of Mr. Smith in the dramatic tape of Peter Wira "way home."
Also Harris worked on several projects as a producer. The first painting of the "riders of the hollow prairi", published in 1996. Later, he participated in the creation of the Western "Appalusa" with Wiggo Mortensen and Inside Base Camp: Laurie Garrett.
In 2016, Ed Harris played the main negative role - a man in a black hat - in the fantastic western "Wild West World" (or "Western World" in another translation). The series is based on the plot of the film "Western World" Michael Church, who came to the screens in 1973.
The name of both paintings gave the West World Amusement Park, in which visitors are invited to make a safe travel around the city in the style of the Wild West, inhabited by human-like robots that are programmed to perform a storyline and entertain guests. Each cycle, when the recorded plot ends, robots will be tied and erased by them. The main plus of the park, attracting visitors - with robots you can do anything, and they will not be harmful to the living person in response.
Three intertwined plots are distinguished in the series: the plot Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), a robot girl who constantly torments a man in a black hat and which has mysterious failures in the program, forcing android time to travel, hostess Maeve (Tendy Newton) which begins to memorize what should not, and the line of the Creator of the Park (Anthony Hopkins) and the Park Workers developing new lines of robots.
In 2018, the premiere of the second season is scheduled. At the end of the series, the authors hinted that the second season would be devoted to medieval Japan.
In 2016, Ed Harris appeared in the comedy melodrame "out of the rules", and in 2017 - in a detective thriller "Mom!". Also, the actor worked on the science fiction militant "Geoshtorm". The film-catastrophe tells about how after a series of cataclysms, humanity launches the system of satellites to control the climate. But an error occurs in the network of satellites, and the protective system becomes a threat to everything alive on earth.
Ed Harris now
In 2019, the Actor was engaged in the shooting of the Military Drama "The Last Border" dedicated to the War in Vietnam. The film went to the screens in January 2020.Announcement of the 3rd season of the Wild West, in which ED returned to the role of a person in black in black was becoming another news from Harris. The output of the picture was scheduled for spring 2020.
Filmography
- 1987 - "Last innocent"
- 1989 - "Abyss"
- 1993 - "Firm"
- 1995 - "Apollo-13"
- 1996 - "Rock"
- 1998 - "Show Truman"
- 1999 - "Third Miracle"
- 2001 - "Mind Games"
- 2002 - "Watches"
- 2003 - Radio
- 2006 - "Two tickets to paradise"
- 2007 - "Clever"
- 2008 - "Near House"
- 2011 - "What am I"
- 2015 - "Night Fugitive"
- 2016 - "Wild West World"
- 2018 - "Kodachrom"
- 2019 - "Resistance"
- 2020 - "Last Border"