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Edward Norton
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale College in 1991 with a degree in history, he worked for a few months i…
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Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale College in 1991 with a degree in history, he worked for a few months in Japan before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. He gained recognition and critical acclaim for his debut in Primal Fear (1996), which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination in the same category. His role as a redeemed neo-Nazi in American History X (1998) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also starred in the film Fight Club (1999), which garnered a cult following. Norton established the production company Class 5 Films in 2003, and was director or producer of the films Keeping the Faith (2000), Down in the Valley (2005), and The Painted Veil (2006). He continued to receive praise for his acting roles in films such as The Score (2001), 25th Hour (2002), The Italian Job (2003), The Illusionist (2006), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). His biggest commercial successes have been Red Dragon (2002), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Incredible Hulk (2008), and The Bourne Legacy (2012). For his roles as a haughty actor in Birdman (2014) and Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown (2024), Norton earned further Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He has also directed and acted in the crime film Motherless Brooklyn (2019) and starred in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022). Norton is an environmental activist and social entrepreneur. He is a trustee of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization that advocates for affordable housing, and serves as president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He is also the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity.
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2026
The Invite
Movie Hawk
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2025
The American Revolution
TV show Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
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2025
From Rails to Trails
Movie Narrator
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2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie Self
- 2025
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2024
A Complete Unknown
Movie Pete Seeger
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2024
Longevity Hackers
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2024
Sausage Party: Foodtopia
TV show Sammy (voice)
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2024
Bad River
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2023
UnCharitable
Movie Self
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2023
Asteroid City
Movie Conrad Earp
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2023
Extrapolations
TV show Jonathan Chopin
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2022
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie Miles Bron
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2022
High Noon on the Waterfront
Movie Carl Foreman (voice)
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2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Movie The Chauffeur
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2021
Paper Birds
Movie Robert
More credits
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2020
Belmondo l'influenceur
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Motherless Brooklyn
Movie Lionel Essrog
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2019
Alita: Battle Angel
Movie Nova (uncredited)
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2018
Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis
Movie Self
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2018
Gotti
Movie Producer
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2018
Isle of Dogs
Movie Rex (voice)
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2017
One October
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Collateral Beauty
Movie Whit Yardsham
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2016
Ask the Storybots
TV show
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2016
Sausage Party
Movie Sammy Bagel Jr. (voice)
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2015
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Movie Self / Scout Ward
- 2015
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Nature Is Speaking
TV show The Soil
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2015
Birdman: All-Access (A View From the Wings)
Movie Self
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Saving Africa's Giants With Yao Ming
Movie Narrator
- 2014
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2014
Mysteries of the Jules Rimet Trophy
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV show Bridge Inspection Supervisor
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2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Movie Henckels
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV show Self
