Ed Harris

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1950-11-28 (Age: 76)

Place of Birth

Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Ed 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.

Filmography (116)

⭐ 0 Role: Chuck Boyd

The Dink

⭐ 7.1 Role: Whitelaw Redfellow

How to Make a Killing

⭐ 10.0 Role: James Tyrone

Long Day's Journey into Night

⭐ 5.7 Role: Vince

Riff Raff

⭐ 1.0 Role: Boris

Concrete

⭐ 6.3 Role: Dale

My Dead Friend Zoe

⭐ 6.5 Role: Lou Sr.

Love Lies Bleeding

⭐ 0 Role: H.C. Westermann

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea

⭐ 5.5 Role: Horace Jones

Downtown Owl

⭐ 3.3 Role: Alan

Get Away If You Can

⭐ 8.2 Role: Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain

Top Gun: Maverick

⭐ 6.5 Role: Lyle

The Lost Daughter

⭐ 6.9 Role: George S. Patton

Resistance

⭐ 7.3 Role: Ray Mott

The Last Full Measure

⭐ 6.3 Role: Sam Vaughn

A Crooked Somebody

⭐ 6.1 Role: U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

Geostorm

⭐ 7.0 Role: Man

mother!

⭐ 6.8 Role: Benjamin Ryder

Kodachrome

⭐ 0 Role: Dodge

Buried Child

⭐ 5.7 Role: Mr. Bransford

Rules Don't Apply

⭐ 5.8 Role: Joy

In Dubious Battle

⭐ 5.3 Role: Neil Elliott

The Adderall Diaries

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story

⭐ 6.4 Role: Shawn Maguire

Run All Night

⭐ 3.9 Role: Cymbeline

Cymbeline

⭐ 6.5 Role: Roy

Frontera

⭐ 6.2 Role: Blade Ranger (voice)

Planes: Fire & Rescue

⭐ 6.1 Role: Garret Mathis / Tom Young

The Face of Love

⭐ 6.1 Role: Sheriff Cornelius Jackson

Sweetwater

⭐ 7.2 Role: Mission Control (voice)

Gravity

⭐ 6.9 Role: Wilford

Snowpiercer

⭐ 6.3 Role: Ed DuBois

Pain & Gain

⭐ 5.9 Role: Demi

Phantom

⭐ 6.9 Role: John McCain

Game Change

⭐ 6.4 Role: David Englander

Man on a Ledge

⭐ 5.3 Role: Dr. Paul Blaylock

Salvation Boulevard

⭐ 6.8 Role: Mr. Simon

That's What I Am

⭐ 7.0 Role: Mr. Smith

The Way Back

⭐ 5.2 Role: Liam

Once Fallen

⭐ 5.2 Role: Sheriff Dick Tipton

Virginia

⭐ 6.6 Role: Virgil Cole

Appaloosa

⭐ 6.5 Role: Charlie Winston

Touching Home

⭐ 6.0 Role: Himself

Dispatches from Nicaragua

⭐ 6.4 Role: Mitch Wilkinson

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

⭐ 6.2 Role: Self

Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'

⭐ 7.3 Role: Remy Bressant

Gone Baby Gone

⭐ 6.1 Role: Eddie Lorenzo

Cleaner

⭐ 0 Role: Self - Narrator

America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins

⭐ 6.5 Role: Ludwig van Beethoven

Copying Beethoven

⭐ 7.0 Role: U.S. Consul Leslie Davis (voice)

The Armenian Genocide

⭐ 5.4 Role: Melville

Two Tickets to Paradise

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

The Oklahoma Heisman

⭐ 6.0 Role: Don Holden

Winter Passing

⭐ 7.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

⭐ 7.2 Role: Carl Fogarty

A History of Violence

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

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

⭐ 7.2 Role: Other Voices (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

⭐ 6.0 Role: Lester Farley

The Human Stain

⭐ 7.3 Role: Coach Jones

Radio

⭐ 5.9 Role: Narrator

Volcanoes of the Deep Sea

⭐ 5.2 Role: Oscar Vogel

Masked and Anonymous

⭐ 9.0 Role: Self

Realizing The Right Stuff

⭐ 7.3 Role: Richard Brown

The Hours

⭐ 6.3 Role: Colonel Berman

Buffalo Soldiers

⭐ 5.3 Role: Henry Sturbuck (voice)

Just a Dream

⭐ 7.9 Role: William Parcher

A Beautiful Mind

⭐ 6.0 Role: Kelly Grant

The Prime Gig

⭐ 7.4 Role: Major König

Enemy at the Gates

⭐ 6.7 Role: Jackson Pollock

Pollock

⭐ 6.1 Role: Jerry Charmichael

Waking the Dead

⭐ 5.8 Role: Frank Shore

The Third Miracle

⭐ 6.8 Role: Himself

Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island

⭐ 7.2 Role: Luke Harrison

Stepmom

⭐ 5.0 Role: Self

Junket Whore

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery

⭐ 6.7 Role: Christof

The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

⭐ 8.2 Role: Christof

The Truman Show

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

⭐ 6.7 Role: Seth Frank

Absolute Power

⭐ 7.2 Role: Sam Peckinpah (Voice)

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

⭐ 6.2 Role: Self

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13

⭐ 7.1 Role: Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

The Rock

⭐ 6.0 Role: Jim Lassiter

Riders of the Purple Sage

⭐ 6.3 Role: Mack McCann

Eye for an Eye

⭐ 6.9 Role: E. Howard Hunt

Nixon

⭐ 7.5 Role: Gene Kranz

Apollo 13

⭐ 6.3 Role: Blair Sullivan

Just Cause

⭐ 6.4 Role: Tom Wheeler

Milk Money

⭐ 6.1 Role: Kyle Bodine

China Moon

⭐ 8.2 Role: Self

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

⭐ 6.3 Role: Sheriff Alan Pangborn

Needful Things

⭐ 6.7 Role: Wayne Tarrance

The Firm

⭐ 5.8 Role: Hugh Hathaway

Running Mates

⭐ 7.3 Role: Dave Moss

Glengarry Glen Ross

⭐ 5.4 Role: Harry Seagraves

Paris Trout

⭐ 7.0 Role: Frankie

State of Grace

⭐ 6.3 Role: David 'High School' Flannigan

Jacknife

⭐ 7.3 Role: Virgil 'Bud' Brigman

The Abyss

⭐ 6.1 Role: Stefan

To Kill a Priest

⭐ 6.5 Role: William Walker

Walker

⭐ 5.3 Role: Harry Nash

The Last Innocent Man

⭐ 6.5 Role: Charlie Dick

Sweet Dreams

⭐ 6.6 Role: Gus Lang

Code Name: Emerald

⭐ 6.0 Role: Shang

Alamo Bay

⭐ 5.1 Role: Jimmy Wing

A Flash of Green

⭐ 7.2 Role: Wayne Lomax

Places in the Heart

⭐ 5.6 Role: Jack Walsh

Swing Shift

⭐ 6.7 Role: Oates

Under Fire

⭐ 7.4 Role: John Glenn

The Right Stuff

⭐ 6.9 Role: Hank Blaine (segment "Father's Day")

Creepshow

⭐ 10.0 Role: Unknown

Dream on!

⭐ 6.2 Role: Billy

Knightriders

⭐ 6.0 Role: Hotchkiss

Borderline

⭐ 4.4 Role: Chuck Polcheck

The Aliens Are Coming

⭐ 6.8 Role: Pathology Resident

Coma

⭐ 6.4 Role: Russ

The Amazing Howard Hughes