Ed Harris
ActingAlso Known As
Edward Allen Harris
Biography
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.
Movies
(117 total)
The Truman Show
as Christof
Gravity
as Mission Control (voice)
A Beautiful Mind
as William Parcher
Top Gun: Maverick
as Radm. Chester 'Hammer' Cain
Snowpiercer
as Wilford
mother!
as Man
Apollo 13
as Gene Kranz
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
as Mitch Wilkinson
The Rock
as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Geostorm
as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom
Pain & Gain
as Ed DuBois
Gone Baby Gone
as Sgt. Det. Remy Bressant
Enemy at the Gates
as Major König
A History of Violence
as Carl Fogarty
The Abyss
as Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Run All Night
as Shawn Maguire
Man on a Ledge
as David Englander
The Firm
as Wayne Tarrance
The Hours
as Richard Brown
The Way Back
as Mr. Smith
TV Shows
(33 total)
Westworld
as Man in Black
Frasier
as Rob (voice)
The Daily Show
as Self
The Stand
as General Starkey (uncredited)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
CHiPs
as Lonny
The Rockford Files
as Rudy Kempner
The View
as Self
The Oscars
as Self
Empire Falls
as Miles Roby
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Baseball
as Various (voice)
Baseball
as (voice)
Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Lou Grant
as Warren
Great Performances
as Self