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Eric Bana

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Eric Bana

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Also known as Eric Banadinović, Eric Martin Andrew Banadinović

Australian actor

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Eric Bana, born Eric Banadinović on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, is an Australian male. He holds Australian citizenship and resides in Melbourne. His occupations include comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and racing automobile driver. He speaks English and began his work period in 1993.

Bana is associated with the sport of auto racing. His acting work includes the title *Munich*. He has five listed works in one database and one in another.

Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Munich

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Film & TV

Acting · Melbourne, Australia

Eric Martin Andrew Banadinović (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana, is an Australian actor, comedian, producer, and director. He began his career in the sketch-comedy series Full Frontal before gaining notice in the comedy-drama The Castle (1997). He achieved critical recognition for starring in the biographical crime film Chopper (2000) and as the titular character in Hulk…

Known for

  • Apex — Tommy2026
  • UNTAMED — Kyle Turner2025
  • A Sacrifice — Ben Monroe2024
  • Force of Nature: The Dry 2 — Aaron Falk2024
  • Memoir of a Snail — James the Magistrate (voice)2024
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers — Monterey Jack (voice)2022
  • Blueback — Mad Macka2022
  • The Dry — Aaron Falk2021
  • Back to the Outback — Chaz (voice)2021
  • Envoy: Shark Cull — Narrator (voice)2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CV
Active from
1932-03-05
Active to
2013-07-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
55
Total plays
328

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Bana">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

    · 2005 · cited 48,786x

  2. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

    · 2004 · cited 44,298x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,423x

  4. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 26,059x

  5. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,393x

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Encyclopedic overview

Eric Banadinović (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana (/ˈbænə/ ), is an Australian actor and producer. He began his career in the sketch-comedy series Full Frontal before gaining notice in the comedy drama The Castle (1997) and the biographical crime film Chopper (2000) for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

After a decade of roles in Australian television shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention for his performance in the war film Black Hawk Down (2001) and for playing Bruce Banner in the superhero film Hulk (2003). He played Hector in the war epic Troy (2004), and took a leading role in Steven Spielberg's historical thriller Munich (2005). In 2009, he played the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek, which was a critical and commercial success. Bana continued to work steadily in the 2010s, portraying Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen in Lone Survivor (2013), and playing police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film Deliver Us from Evil (2014). In 2018, Bana played the title role in a true crime miniseries, Dirty John. In 2020, he returned to Australia to star in outback thriller The Dry.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eric Bana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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