Ed Harris

Ed Harris has an acclaimed film career spanning five decades. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee and a two-time Golden Globe winner for his brilliant performances in The Hours, The Truman Show, Apollo 13, Game Change (HBO), “Empire Falls” (HBO), and Pollock—his feature film directing debut. In addition to directing Pollock, his second film, as director, screenwriter, and actor, was Appaloosa, co-starring Viggo Mortensen.

Harris has a prolific and diverse filmography of leading roles with acclaimed filmmakers, including Alamo Bay (Louis Malle), The Abyss (James Cameron), The Firm (Sydney Pollack), Nixon (Oliver Stone), The Rock (Michael Bay), Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood), A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho), Mother! (Darren Aronofsky), and three films with veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. Harris starred in blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick and in Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s award-winning film adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel.

Upcoming, Harris will star in the highly anticipated “Yellowstone” spin-off “The Dutton Ranch” from creator Taylor Sheridan. Harris was recently seen in the A24 revenge thriller, How to Make a Killing, opposite Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley. He will also co-star with Jake Johnson and Mary Steenburgen in Ben Stiller’s pickleball comedy, The Dink for Apple Original Films this summer.

Most recently, Harris starred alongside Jessica Lange in MGM’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Other recent work includes crime thriller feature Riff Raff, alongside Jennifer Coolidge, Dustin Hoffman, and Pete Davidson. He also starred in the comedy-drama film My Dead Friend Zoe, which had its debut at SXSW, winning the Audience Award, and alongside Kristen Stewart in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2024.

His television credits include “Empire Falls” (HBO) and Riders of the Purple Sage (TNT), co-starring and co-produced with his wife Amy Madigan. Harris also starred as the enigmatic Man in Black for four seasons of the critically acclaimed HBO series “Westworld,” which earned him an Emmy nomination. Harris’ theatre credits include: Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (Obie), Simpatico (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actor), George Furth’s Precious Sons (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Prairie Avenue, Scar, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath, Sweet Bird of Youth, Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Shepard’s Buried Child, in which Harris and Madigan made their London West End debut and for which he received an Olivier nomination.