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Edward Norton

Birth name: Edward James Norton Jr.

Birth date: 18.08.1969

Edward Norton was born on August 18, 1969 to parents Edward, an attorney who works for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Robin Norton, a former foundation executive and teacher who passed away of brain cancer on March 6, 1997. Edward also has two younger siblings named James and Molly. From the age of 5 onward, the Yale graduate (majoring in history) has always been interested in acting. At the age of 8, he would ask his drama teacher what his motivation in a scene was. He attended theater schools throughout his life, and eventually managed to find work on stage in New York as a member of the Signature players, who produced the works of playwright and director Edward Albee. Around the time when he was appearing in Albee's Fragments, in Hollywood, they were looking for a young actor to star opposite Richard Gere in a new courtroom thriller, Primal Fear (1996). The role was offered to Leonardo DiCaprio but he turned it down. Gere was on the verge of walking away from the project, fed up with the wait for a young star to be found, when Edward auditioned and won the role over 2000 other hopefuls. Before the film was even released, his test screenings for the part were causing a Hollywood sensation, and he was soon offered roles in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). Edward won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Primal Fear (1996). In 1998, Norton gained 30 pounds of muscle and transformed his look into that of a monstrous skinhead for his role as a violent white supremacist in American History X (1998). This performance would earn him his second Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actor. In 1999 came the critically acclaimed Fight Club (1999) and in 2000 came his directorial debut in Keeping the Faith (2000).

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Filmography

# Leaves of Grass (2009) # Motherless Brooklyn (2008) .... Lionel Essrog # The Incredible Hulk (2008) .... Bruce Banner # Pride and Glory (2009) .... Ray Tierney # The Painted Veil (2006) .... Walter Fane # The Illusionist (2006) .... Eisenheim # Down in the Valley (2005) .... Harlan # Kingdom of Heaven (2005) .... King Baldwin ... aka Königreich der Himmel (Germany) ... aka Reino de los cielos, El (Spain) # The Italian Job (2003) .... Steve ... aka Braquage à l'italienne (France) # 25th Hour (2002) .... Monty Brogan # Red Dragon (2002) .... Will Graham ... aka Roter Drache (Germany) # Frida (2002) .... Nelson Rockefeller # Death to Smoochy (2002) .... Sheldon Mopes / Smoochy the Rhino ... aka Tötet Smoochy (Germany) # "The American Experience" .... Reader (1 episode, 2001) - War Letters (2001) TV episode (voice) .... Reader # The Score (2001) .... Jack Teller ... aka The Score (Germany) # "The Simpsons" .... Devon Bradley (1 episode, 2000) - The Great Money Caper (2000) TV episode (voice) .... Devon Bradley # Keeping the Faith (2000) .... Father Brian Finn # Fight Club (1999) .... The Narrator ... aka Fight Club (Germany) # American History X (1998) .... Derek Vinyard # Rounders (1998) .... Lester 'Worm' Murphy # Everyone Says I Love You (1996) .... Holden Spence # The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) .... Alan J. Isaacman ... aka Larry Flynt (Canada: French title) # Primal Fear (1996) .... Aaron Stampler # Only in America (1994) (V) (as Ed Norton) .... Duane/James/Bruno/Eric/The Museum Guard