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Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award, an Actor Award, two Critics' Choice Awards and two Satellite Awards in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Emmy Awards.
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Born 18 August 1969 · Q125904
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2026· 4 entries
“He likes to challenge the director. It”
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The Guardian: ‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite
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Public attention spiked: 26,273 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.2× the usual 6,294, with 0 article edits.
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Edward Norton is direct descendant of Pocahontas, records confirm
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2022· 1 entry
Norton portrayed an obnoxious New York tech billionaire Miles Bron in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the second installment in Knives Out franchise
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2020· 1 entry
Norton donated $8,400 to the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody'
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The Guardian: Motherless Brooklyn review – Edward Norton's weighty labour of love
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2014· 2 entries
Some publications interpreted Norton's performance in Birdman (2014), in which he portrays a talented but volatile actor, as a self-referential nod to his image.
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Norton played in two Academy Award-winning films, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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2011· 1 entry
Norton proposed to Canadian film producer Shauna Robertson after dating for six years
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2009· 1 entry
Norton produced the documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which follows former U
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2008· 1 entry
Norton initiated the company's plan to embark on green affordable housing
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2006· 3 entries
When Obama was a senator from Illinois, elaborating that Obama was "an interesting prism through which to examine politics"
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Starring as Eisenheim the magician in The Illusionist and bacteriologist Walter Fane in The Painted Veil
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And constantly provided rewrites of the script
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2003· 2 entries
Collaborated with oil company BP to develop the Solar Neighbors program, which aimed to install photovoltaic panels on rooftops of households in Los Angeles
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And was director or producer of the films Keeping the Faith (2000), Down in the Valley (2005), and The Painted Veil (2006)
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2000· 1 entry
Norton made his directorial debut with the romantic comedy Keeping the Faith, starring as a priest named Brian Finn
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture for American History X (1999).
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Started dating Salma Hayek, with whom he later appeared in the 2002 biopic Frida
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1998· 1 entry
Norton starred alongside Matt Damon in Rounders, which follows two friends who urgently need cash and play poker to pay off a huge debt
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1996· 5 entries
Awarded Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Primal Fear (1996).
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Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for Everyone Says I Love You (1996).
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He feels it necessary to keep his off-screen life to himself and opts for a "normal life." As soon as his career took off in the late 1990s, Norton asserted that, "If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack." AllMovie remarked that Norton attained "almost instant stardom" following his 1996 film debut in Primal Fear and could have risen to even greater fame.
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Primal Fear features Norton in the role of Aaron Stampler, an altar boy who is charged with the murder of an archbishop and is defended by lawyer Martin Vail (Richard Gere)
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1995· 1 entry
Casting agent Shirley Rich discovered Norton
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1994· 1 entry
Norton auditioned for Albee's Finding the Sun but did not get the part
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1991· 2 entries
With a degree in history, he worked for a few months in Japan before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career
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Studied at Yale University (1991).
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1987· 1 entry
Studied at Wilde Lake High School (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
Norton won the acting cup at Pasquaney, an annual summer camp for boys in Hebron, New Hampshire, where he later returned as a theater director
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-08-18.
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