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Edward Norton

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Edward Norton

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Also known as Edward Harrison Norton

American actor

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Edward Norton is an American film actor, director, producer, and character actor born in Boston on August 18, 1969. He studied at Yale University and Yale College. His professional career began in 1993, and he works in the United States. Notable works include *American History X* and *Fight Club*. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East.

Norton has received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

He is married to Shauna Robertson and speaks English. Norton competes in the sport of athletics, specifically the marathon.

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Person · Open Library

Works
15

Top works

  • Quick Routes of Wealth Building
  • House
  • Man Who Saved the American Revolution
  • Bluewater Bride--The Voyage of the Halcyon
  • Cape Light

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Film & TV

Acting · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale College in 1991 with a degree in history, he worked for a few months in Japan before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. He gained recognition and critical acclaim for his debut in Primal Fear (1996), which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy…

Known for

  • The Invite — Hawk2026
  • On the Red Carpet Presents: "A Complete Unknown" — Self2025
  • From Rails to Trails — Narrator2025
  • The American Revolution — Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)2025
  • A Complete Unknown — Pete Seeger2024
  • Bad River — Self - Narrator (voice)2024
  • Longevity Hackers — Self - Narrator (voice)2024
  • Sausage Party: Foodtopia — Sammy (voice)2024
  • UnCharitable — Self2023
  • Asteroid City — Conrad Earp2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1969
media music
Official siteStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
8,562
Total plays
27,197

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Edward Norton (born 18 August 1969) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and philanthropist best known for his roles in films such as American History X (1998), Fight Club (1999), The Illusionist (2006), and The Incredible Hulk (2008). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edward+Norton">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

    · 1953 · cited 29,958x

  2. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

    · 2000 · cited 28,577x

  3. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

    · 2000 · cited 24,799x

  4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

    · 1938 · cited 24,547x

  5. THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

    · 1963 · cited 18,994x

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Quotes

  • “An all-too-common reaction to something like racism is to hate the act so much you dismiss the person. But in [American History X] you're forced to confront the complexity of the character and his tragedy - and the fact, which people don't want to recognise, that someone like him can come out of a normal middle-class home.”
  • “My feeling is that it is film, the responsibility of people making films and people making all art to specifically address dysfunctions in the culture.I think that any culture where the art is not reflecting a really dysfunctional component of the culture, is a culture in denial. And i think that's much more intensely dangerous on lots of levels than considered examinations of those dysfunctions throught art is dangerous.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale College in 1991 with a degree in history, he worked for a few months in Japan before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. He gained recognition and critical acclaim for his debut in Primal Fear (1996), which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination in the same category. His role as a redeemed neo-Nazi in American History X (1998) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also starred in the film Fight Club (1999), which garnered a cult following.

Norton established the production company Class 5 Films in 2003, and was director or producer of the films Keeping the Faith (2000), Down in the Valley (2005), and The Painted Veil (2006). He continued to receive praise for his acting roles in films such as The Score (2001), 25th Hour (2002), The Italian Job (2003), The Illusionist (2006), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). His biggest commercial successes have been Red Dragon (2002), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Incredible Hulk (2008), and The Bourne Legacy (2012). For his roles as a haughty actor in Birdman (2014) and Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown (2024), Norton earned further Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He has also directed and acted in the crime film Motherless Brooklyn (2019) and starred in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022).

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