Ed Harris
Acting
Born November 28, 1950 · Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations. Harris has appeared in numerous leading and supporting roles, including in Creepshow (1982), The Right Stuff (1983), Under Fire (1983), Places in the Heart (1984), The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Firm (1993), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Radio (2003), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Mother! (2017), The Lost Daughter (2021), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). In addition to directing Pollock, Harris directed the Western film Appaloosa (2008). In television, Harris is notable for his roles as Miles Roby in the miniseries Empire Falls (2005) and as United States Senator John McCain in the television movie Game Change (2012); the latter earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He starred as the Man in Black in the HBO science fiction-Western series Westworld (2016–2022), for which he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Directed (3)
Acting (116)
The Dink
2026
How to Make a Killing
2026
Long Day's Journey into Night
2025
Riff Raff
2025
Concrete
2024
My Dead Friend Zoe
2024
Love Lies Bleeding
2024
Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea
2023
Downtown Owl
2023
Get Away If You Can
2022
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
The Lost Daughter
2021
Resistance
2020
The Last Full Measure
2020
A Crooked Somebody
2018
Geostorm
2017
mother!
2017
Kodachrome
2017
Buried Child
2016
Rules Don't Apply
2016
In Dubious Battle
2016
The Adderall Diaries
2016
Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story
2015
Run All Night
2015
Cymbeline
2014
Frontera
2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
The Face of Love
2013
Sweetwater
2013
Gravity
2013
Snowpiercer
2013
Pain & Gain
2013
Phantom
2013
Game Change
2012
Man on a Ledge
2012
Salvation Boulevard
2011
That's What I Am
2011
The Way Back
2010
Once Fallen
2010
Virginia
2010
Appaloosa
2008
Touching Home
2008
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
Just Desserts: The Making of 'Creepshow'
2007
Gone Baby Gone
2007
Cleaner
2007
America's Game: 1973 Miami Dolphins
2007
Copying Beethoven
2006
The Armenian Genocide
2006
Two Tickets to Paradise
2006
The Oklahoma Heisman
2006
Winter Passing
2006
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
A History of Violence
2005
How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Human Stain
2003
Radio
2003
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
2003
Masked and Anonymous
2003
Realizing The Right Stuff
2003
The Hours
2002
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
Just a Dream
2002
A Beautiful Mind
2001
The Prime Gig
2001
Enemy at the Gates
2001
Pollock
2000
Waking the Dead
2000
The Third Miracle
1999
Jackson Pollock: Love and Death on Long Island
1999
Stepmom
1998
Junket Whore
1998
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
1998
The Truman Show
1998
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
1998
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Absolute Power
1997
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1996
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996
The Rock
1996
Riders of the Purple Sage
1996
Eye for an Eye
1996
Nixon
1995
Apollo 13
1995
Just Cause
1995
Milk Money
1994
China Moon
1994
Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
Needful Things
1993
The Firm
1993
Running Mates
1992
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
Paris Trout
1991
State of Grace
1990
Jacknife
1989
The Abyss
1989
To Kill a Priest
1988
Walker
1987
The Last Innocent Man
1987
Sweet Dreams
1985
Code Name: Emerald
1985
Alamo Bay
1985
A Flash of Green
1984
Places in the Heart
1984
Swing Shift
1984
Under Fire
1983
The Right Stuff
1983
Creepshow
1982
Dream on!
1981
Knightriders
1981
Borderline
1980
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
Coma
1978
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977