Aaron Eckhart
Acting
Born 1968-03-12
Cupertino, California, USA
82 credits
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Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor and producer. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at early age, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior year. He left high school without graduating, but earned a diploma through a professional education course, and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in film. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in New York City as a struggling, unemployed actor.
As an undergraduate at BYU, Eckhart met director and writer Neil LaBute, who cast him in several of his own original plays. Five years later Eckhart made a debut as an unctuous, sociopathic ladies' man in LaBute's black comedy film In the Company of Men (1997). Under LaBute's guidance he worked in the director's films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), and Possession (2002).
Eckhart gained wide recognition as George in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film Erin Brockovich (2000), and, in 2006, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking. He gained further mainstream breakout in 2008 when he starred in the blockbuster Batman film The Dark Knight as District Attorney Harvey Dent / Two-Face. Eckhart's other key roles include The Pledge (2001), The Core (2003), Paycheck (2003), Rabbit Hole (2010), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and its sequel London Has Fallen (2016), I, Frankenstein (2014), Sully (2016), Midway (2019) and Line Of Duty (2019).
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Filmography
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Deep Water
Frasier
Conan
The Dark Knight
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Chelsea
Pantheon
Emeril Live
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Olympus Has Fallen
Erin Brockovich
The Core
London Has Fallen
Sully
Midway
Chief of Station
Battle: Los Angeles
Thieves Highway
The Romanoffs
Muzzle: City of Wolves
The First Lady
The Wicker Man
No Reservations
Any Given Sunday
Muzzle
Paycheck
The Bricklayer
The Pledge
The Missing
Love Happens
The Rum Diary
Thank You for Smoking
I, Frankenstein
Thursday
Rabbit Hole
Nurse Betty
The Black Dahlia
Line of Duty
Erased
Meet Bill
Suspect Zero
Bleed for This
Molly
Incarnate
Classified
Ambush
Towelhead
Rumble Through the Dark
Aliens in the Family
Wander
Your Friends & Neighbors
Possession
Gotham Tonight
Scorpion
Conversations with Other Women
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