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Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor.
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entertainment · American actor (born 1968) · actor · film producer · film actor · television actor · also Aaron Eckhart, Aaron Edward Eckhart, Eckhart
Born 12 March 1968 · Q192643
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2026· 6 entries
“You have to say these words that are crazy, and yet do it with a smile on your face and have the audience like you. At one point, I”
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Yahoo: Aaron Eckhart’s Most Intense Action Movie Returns With a New Hulu Release
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Yahoo: Aaron Eckhart’s Overlooked CIA Spy Movie Is Coming To Netflix Very Soon
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Public attention spiked: 12,346 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.9× the usual 2,529, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Entertainment Tonight: Aaron Eckhart
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: Classified review – Aaron Eckhart hitman thriller mines newspaper ads for coded messages
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collider: This Aaron Eckhart Conspiracy Thriller Is Climbing Up the Charts
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The Guardian: Chief of Station review – perma-scowled Aaron Eckhart bids for Liam Neeson ‘geri-action’ market
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Deadline.com: Aaron Eckhart To Star As U.S. President In Action Pic ‘Raider’ From ‘Con Air’ Director Simon West
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collider: Aaron Eckhart Goes 007 in 'Chief of Station' Trailer
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2023· 3 entries
People: Aaron Eckhart and Nina Dobrev Go on a Manhunt in Action-Packed Trailer for The Bricklayer (Exclusive)
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The Guardian: Muzzle review – Aaron Eckhart out-acted by German shepherd in cop-mutt thriller
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Variety: Aaron Eckhart Action-Thriller ‘Muzzle’ Sells to RLJE (EXCLUSIVE)
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Aaron Eckhart’s teenage obsessions: ‘Pink Floyd saved my life’
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2019· 1 entry
Starred in Roland Emmerich’s blockbuster movie Midway, which also starred Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Dennis Quaid and Woody Harrelson
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Aaron Eckhart: ‘I’m 48. For 20 years I’ve made mistakes’
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2011· 1 entry
Eckhart starred in Jonathan Liebesman's science fiction film Battle: Los Angeles, in which he portrayed a combat veteran Marine platoon sergeant
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2008· 2 entries
Played a major role in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster Batman film The Dark Knight as District Attorney Harvey Dent / Two-Face
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Eckhart portrayed the comic book character Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, the sequel to the 2005 film Batman Begins
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2007· 1 entry
“Those were difficult times .... The way I did it was to really trust Alan. It was in the words. I really trusted Summer [Bishil], and I tried to get her to trust me, to build a relationship when we were doing physical scenes. We”
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2006· 1 entry
Received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking
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2005· 1 entry
Returning to film, Eckhart appeared in Neverwas as a therapist who takes a job at a rundown mental hospital that once treated his father (Nick Nolte)
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2004· 1 entry
Eckhart starred on the London stage, opposite Julia Stiles, in David Mamet's Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre
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2003· 2 entries
Appeared in The Missing, in which he played Cate Blanchett's lover, and in the action-thriller Paycheck opposite Ben Affleck
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Eckhart co-starred with Hilary Swank in The Core, a film about a geophysicist who tries to detonate a nuclear device in order to save the world from destruction
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2000· 1 entry
As George, a ponytailed, goateed biker, in Steven Soderbergh's drama Erin Brockovich
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1999· 1 entry
Starred opposite Elisabeth Shue in Molly, a romantic comedy-drama in which he played the self-absorbed brother of an autistic woman who was cured by surgery
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1997· 1 entry
Eckhart was approached by Neil LaBute to star in a film adaptation of LaBute's stage play In the Company of Men
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1994· 2 entries
With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film
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Appeared as an extra on the television drama series Beverly Hills, 90210
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1988· 1 entry
Eckhart returned to the United States and enrolled as a film major at Brigham Young University–Hawaii, but later transferred to Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah
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1985· 1 entry
Eckhart moved to Australia and settled in Sydney, where he attended American International School of Sydney for his high school senior year; he further developed his acting skills in productions like Waiting for Godot, w
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1981· 1 entry
Following his father's job in information technology
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1968· 2 entries
Born 1968-03-12.
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In Cupertino, California, the son of Mary Martha Lawrence, a writer, painter and poet, and James Conrad Eckhart, a computer executive
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