Edward Norton

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edward_nortonBirth Name: Edward Harrison Norton
Birth date: August 18, 1969
Country: USA

Edward Norton real name Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.. He is an American film actor, screenwriter and director.

Edward Norton has starred in the films Primal Fear; Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt, American History X, Rounders, Fight Club, Keeping The Faith, The Score, Death To Smoochy, Frida, Red Dragon, 25th Hour, The Italian Job, Kingdom of Heaven, Down in the Valley, The Illusionist, The Painted Veil, The Incredible Hulk, and Pride and Glory. .

He has been nominated for two Academy Awards ( Primal Fear and American History X) and won a Golden Globe along with numerous other awards for his performances. The film Frida, for which he wrote an uncredited screenplay, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two. In 2003 he won the Obie Award for his performance Off-Broadway in Burn This by Lanford Wilson.

He produced and directed the film Keeping The Faith, produced Down in the Valley (Cannes Film Festival selection) and The Painted Veil, and is currently producing five other films including adaptations of Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War, Dan O'Brien's Buffalo for the Broken Heart and Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn for which he is writing the screenplay. Not only did Norton star in The Incredible Hulk, he also did a rewrite (uncredited) on the screenplay. Norton executive produced the documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama premiered on HBO November 2009. His most recent film Leaves of Grass, where he played a dual role (he also is a producer on the film) premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival.. Norton most recently completed filming the indie psychological drama Stone with Robert DeNiro.

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    has starred in the films   Primal Fear;   Everyone Says I Love You,   The People vs. Larry Flynt,   American History X, Rounders,  Fight Club,   Keeping The Faith,   The Score,  Death To Smoochy, Frida,  Red Dragon, 25th Hour, The Italian Job, Kingdom of Heaven, Down in the Valley, The Illusionist, The Painted Veil, The Incredible Hulk, and Pride and Glory. .

    He has been nominated for two Academy Awards ( Primal Fear and American History X) and won a Golden Globe along with numerous other awards for his performances. The film Frida, for which he wrote an uncredited screenplay, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two. In 2003 he won the Obie Award for his performance Off-Broadway in Burn This by Lanford Wilson.

    He produced and directed the film Keeping The Faith, produced Down in the Valley (Cannes Film Festival selection) and The Painted Veil, and is currently producing five other films including adaptations of Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War, Dan O'Brien's Buffalo for the Broken Heart and Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn for which he is writing the screenplay. Not only did Norton star in The Incredible Hulk, he also did a rewrite (uncredited) on the screenplay. Norton executive produced the documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama premiered on HBO November 2009. His most recent film Leaves of Grass, where he played a dual role (he also is a producer on the film) premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival.. Norton most recently completed filming the indie psychological drama Stone with Robert DeNiro.