Kurt Russell
Acting
Born 1951-03-17
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
147 credits
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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s.
Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
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Filmography
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Show with David Letterman
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
The Mike Douglas Show
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Django Unchained
Hawaii Five-O
What If...?
The Fugitive
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Forrest Gump
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
The Virginian
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Love, American Style
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Furious 7
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Lost in Space
Gunsmoke
The F.B.I.
The Thing
Daniel Boone
The Oscars
The High Chaparral
Room 222
The Hateful Eight
Late Night with David Letterman
The Jonathan Ross Show
Marvel Studios Legends
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Madison
The Fate of the Furious
Death Proof
Smurfs
Vanilla Sky
Stargate
Police Story
Gilligan's Island
Made in Hollywood
Sky High
Tombstone
Harry O
Big Trouble in Little China
Deepwater Horizon
F9
Laredo
Escape from New York
Poseidon
The Fox and the Hound
Tango & Cash
Sam Benedict
Bone Tomahawk
Executive Decision
Escape from L.A.
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