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Eric Bana
Eric Banadinovich, known professionally as Eric Bana, is an Australian actor, producer, and comedian. He began his career in the sketch-comedy series Full Frontal before gaining notice in the comedy drama The Castle (1997) and the biographical crime film Chopper (2000) for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
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2026· 6 entries
“There’s this fine line where you go digging for information as much as you can get in a short amount of time.”
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“he didn’t take himself too seriously.”
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“But when the time came for orders to be given, he assumed that mantle and was extremely capable. I really loved that side of him.”
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Public attention spiked: 56,187 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.6× the usual 4,473, with 14 article edits. Editors noted: description added
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2025· 11 entries
collider: Eric Bana's Criminally Underrated Mystery Thriller Is a Silent Streaming Hit
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UPI: Eric Bana drama 'Untamed' renewed for Season 2
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Yahoo: Eric Bana reveals what he almost took from Netflix's 'Untamed' set, talks Marvel future
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Forbes: Eric Bana Talks About Battling Evil In The Vast Wilderness In Netflix’s ‘Untamed’
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The Guardian: Untamed review – Eric Bana’s national park thriller is as beautiful as it is totally predictable
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Chicago Tribune: ‘Untamed’ review: Eric Bana investigates a Yosemite murder as an agent for the National Parks Service
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Yahoo: For Eric Bana, 'Untamed' and its wilderness was hard to leave behind
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FirstShowing.net: Eric Bana in Yosemite in Mystery Thriller 'Untamed' First Look Teaser
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collider: Eric Bana Teams Up With ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Jurassic Park’ Stars in First ‘Untamed’ Trailer
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IndieWire: Eric Bana Fills Out His Physical Media Collection with a Visit to the Criterion Closet — Watch Here
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Bana starred in Netflix's Untamed, a mystery miniseries set in Yosemite National Park with co-stars Lily Santiago, Rosemarie DeWitt and Sam Neill
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Force of Nature: The Dry 2 review – Eric Bana returns as Aaron Falk in solid thriller
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Eric Bana on making Chopper: ‘I knew we weren’t creating some kind of violence porn’
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The Guardian: Chopper review – Eric Bana’s star-making turn reeking with lairy charm and charisma
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Voiced Monterey Jack in the animation Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and appeared in the drama Blueback, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
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2021· 1 entry
Bana starred in a mystery drama, The Dry, based on the book of the same name by Jane Harper
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Dry review – Eric Bana stars in gripping, tough and psychologically intense adaptation
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Returned to Australia to star in the outback thriller The Dry
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Member of the Order of Australia (2019).
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2018· 2 entries
Bana played the title role in a true crime miniseries, Dirty John
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Bana played John in the Bravo miniseries Dirty John, based on the true crime podcast of the same name by Christopher Goffard
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2017· 1 entry
Bana took the role of Uther Pendragon, king of Britain and father of future King Arthur, in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
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2016· 1 entry
Played Frank Bonneville, a struggling radio journalist in Ricky Gervais's Special Correspondents
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ricky Gervais and Eric Bana team up for Special Correspondents remake
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2011· 3 entries
The Guardian: Eric Bana and Danny Huston to rock Elvis and Nixon roles
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The Guardian: Eric Bana: bruised and bewildered
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Bana played ex-CIA operative Erik Heller in the action thriller Hanna, starring alongside Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett
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2010· 1 entry
Bana was named the "Saints Number One Ticket Holder"
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2009· 5 entries
The Guardian: Eric Bana needs to remember where he left his Chopper | Peter Bradshaw
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Also appeared in the science fiction film The Time Traveller's Wife, based on Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 novel of the same title
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Played the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek, which was a critical and commercial success
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Notably on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
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Bana directed and starred in the documentary Love the Beast
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2006· 1 entry
Bana was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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2004· 2 entries
Bana co-starred with Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom in the war epic Troy
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Bana purchased a Porsche 944 to compete in Australia's Porsche Challenge
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2003· 1 entry
Voiced hammerhead shark Anchor in the critically and commercially acclaimed animated Pixar film Finding Nemo
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2001· 1 entry
Director Ridley Scott cast Bana as an American soldier in the film Black Hawk Down (2001)
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2000· 2 entries
And was drawn to it because it reminded him of his childhood, and because he found its characters amusing and likeable
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“He’s a guy I would have gotten along with had I gotten to meet him.”
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1999· 1 entry
Bana and Gleeson have two children together; Klaus (born 1999) and Sophia (born 2002).
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1997· 4 entries
After Bana proposed to her on a trip to the United States, which he won from Cleo Magazine after being named their "Bachelor of the Year" in 1996
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Received a Logie Award for "Most Popular Comedy Personality" for his work on the show
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They married in 1997, after Bana proposed to her on a trip to the United States, which he won from Cleo Magazine after being named their "Bachelor of the Year" in 1996.
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Despite his inexperience with dramatic roles, Bana was approached by director Andrew Dominik to appear in the film Chopper (2000), a biographical film based on the life of infamous Australian criminal Chopper Read
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1995· 1 entry
While working on the television series Full Frontal, Bana began dating Rebecca Gleeson, a publicist with the Seven Network and daughter of then Chief Justice of New South Wales, and later Chief Justice of Australia, Murr
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1994· 1 entry
And to host his own television special, titled Eric, in 1996
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1993· 1 entry
Bana made his television debut on Steve Vizard's late-night talk show Tonight Live
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-08-09.
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