Edward Norton American Actor Known for Fight Club

Edward Norton is an American actor born on 18 August 1969 in Boston. His best-known titles on this site are Fight Club (1999) and Birdman (2014).

Early life

He attended Yale University, finishing in 1991; Wilde Lake High School, finishing in 1987; and Yale College.

Career

The earliest of his listed screen credits is Everyone Says I Love You, from 1996, as Holden. His 1990s credits include Primal Fear (1996, as Aaron Stampler) and American History X (1998). During the 2000s, he worked on Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and The Incredible Hulk (2008, as Bruce Banner). Work from the 2010s includes The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, as Albert Henckels) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019). Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, as Miles Bron) and Asteroid City (2023, as Conrad Earp) are among his 2020s credits.

In total, 40 films and 3 TV series are listed from 1996 to 2026. Drama is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (19), followed by action (8) and crime (7). The list ends, for now, with The Invite (2026). Of his nine titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, The Bourne Legacy (2012) has the highest, at $276 million. Beyond acting, the credits show him as director on Motherless Brooklyn and Keeping the Faith and writer on Motherless Brooklyn.

Bill Murray appears in three of his listed titles, including Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The French Dispatch (2021). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Adrien Brody (three titles) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (three titles). Wes Anderson directed four of his titles on record. Brett Ratner is credited as director on two of them, including Red Dragon (2002) and After the Sunset (2004).

Recognition

He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture in 1996 for Primal Fear. Edward Norton also has received the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (1996) for The People vs. Larry Flynt and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (1996) for The People vs. Larry Flynt. His nominations include the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for Primal Fear. Altogether, 4 wins and 13 nominations are listed.

Personal life

He has been married to Shauna Robertson since 2012. He has one child on record.