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Edward
Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an Academy
Award-nominated American actor, known for his performances in The
Rock, The Right Stuff, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Apollo 13,
Pollock, Enemy at the Gates, and The Truman Show, among many
others. Harris's first important film role was in Borderline with
Charles Bronson. In Knightriders he played a motorcycle stunt
rider in a role modeled after that of King Arthur. In 1983, he
became a star, playing NASA astronaut John Glenn in The Right
Stuff; in 1995 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor for his portrayal of NASA mission director Gene
Kranz, in the film Apollo 13. Further Oscar nominations arrived in
1999, 2001 and 2003, for The Truman Show, Pollock and The Hours,
respectively. More recently, he appeared as a mobster in David
Cronenberg's A History of Violence. He also had a role alongside
Casey Affleck and Morgan
Freeman in Gone, Baby, Gone, directed by actor Ben Affleck. In
2007 he appeared in National
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