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Gene Hackman

Birth Name: Gene Hackman
Birth date: January 30, 1930
Country: USA

Gene Hackman was born on January 30, 1930 in San Bernardino, California. He is an Academy Award-winning American actor.

Gene Hackman became one of America's best-known film actors in 1971, when he starred as impudent New York cop Popeye Doyle in The French Connection.

Since then he has mixed leading and supporting roles, frequently playing silky villains or rough-and-regular heroes: The Conversation (1974), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Hoosiers (1986) and Get Shorty (1995) starred alongside John Travolta.

Hackman has been nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor for The French Connection and Best Supporting Actor for the 1992 Clint Eastwood western Unforgiven. In 2001 he appeared with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Stiller in the comedy The Royal Tenenbaums.

Also he starred in such movies include Behind Enemy Lines (2001) starred with Owen Wilson and Runaway Jury (2003) starred opposite John Cusack and Rachel Weisz, Enemy of the State (1998) with Will Smith and Welcome to Mooseport (2004).

Hackman's first wife was Faye Maltese. They had three children, Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean, and Leslie Anne, but the couple divorced in 1986 after 30 years of marriage. In 1991, Hackman married Betsy Arakawa. They live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.