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A keen sportsman in high school, Ed's football skills won him a scholarship to Columbia University.

However, in 1971 he dropped out to follow his parents to Oklahoma, and enrolled at Oklahoma University, where he developed an interest in theatre, first as a spectator and later as a participant.

Convinced that he had discovered the path his life was meant to follow, Ed moved to Los Angeles, where he entered the California Institute of the Arts, which granted him a fine-arts degree in 1975.

Over the course of the next several years he compiled an impressive list of stage credits, and then moved into features in 1978, with a small part in 'Coma', and offered an impressive turn two years later, in his first leading role, in George Romero's 'Knightriders'.

His first major film role came in 1980, when he played a killer in the Charles Bronson movie, 'Borderline'.

In 1986, he returned to his stage roots and made his Broadway debut, opposite Judith Ivey, as the stern but loving father in George Furth's autobiographical 'Precious Sons', for which he earned a Tony Award nomination.

The 1990s saw Harris deliver more complex and chilling roles. He appeared alongside [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/50:0/Al_Pacino.htm]Al Pacino[/urlnew], [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/843:0/Alec_Baldwin.htm]Alec Baldwin[/urlnew], and [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/57:0/Jack_Lemmon.htm]Jack Lemmon [/urlnew]in 'Glengarry Glen Ross'; was a double-dealing FBI agent in the [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/824:0/Tom_Cruise.htm]Tom Cruise [/urlnew]vehicle, 'The Firm'; and stepped to the other side of the law as a creepy serial killer, in 'Just Cause'.

In 1995, Ed nailed the role of NASA mission control flight director, Gene Kranz, in director [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/581:0/Ron_Howard.htm]Ron Howard's [/urlnew]astronaut homage 'Apollo 13', and his performance earned him his first Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.

Ed received a second Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination, as the God-like creator-director of a popular 24-hour-a-day TV series, in 'The Truman Show'.

He received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the artist Pollock, in a film by the same name, which he also directed.
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Ed is often referred to as 'the thinking woman's sex symbol'.

He once appeared in a series of TV commercials for Vauxhall cars.

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Dirt Nap (2005)
Copying Beethoven (2005)
Winter Passing (2005)
Empire Falls (2005)
A History of Violence (2005)
Radio (2003)
The Human Stain (2003)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
The Hours (2002)
Just a Dream (2002)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Pollock (2000)
The Prime Gig (2000)
Waking the Dead (2000)
The Third Miracle (1999)
Stepmom (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
Absolute Power (1997)
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)
Needful Things (1993)
The Firm (1993)
Running Mates (1992)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Paris Trout (1991)
State of Grace (1990)
The Abyss (1989)
Jacknife (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)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Under Fire (1983)
Creepshow (1982)
Knightriders (1981
Dream On! (1981)
The Aliens Are Coming (1980)
Borderline (1980)
The Seekers" (1979)
Coma (1978)
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
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