Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Norton ( born August 18, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actor and director.
Life
Norton was born in Boston but grew up in Columbia, Maryland. He is the oldest of three children. His father is a lawyer and worked as such, among others, the former President Jimmy Carter. His mother worked as a teacher. She died in 1997 of a brain tumor.
Already during his studies of history at Yale, from which he graduated with the Bachelor, Norton took several theater courses. The breakthrough in the film business he succeeded with the film Twilight, in which he played a young prisoner with split personality. For his first role, he has received numerous nominations and won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. His salary for this film took just $ 50,000. For his role as a reformed neo-Nazi in American History X, he received several nominations, including one for an Oscar as best actor.
His roles are usually characterized by great complexity. In his directorial debut is a love triangle between a Catholic priest (Norton ), a rabbi and her childhood friend ( the Faith, 2000).
But Norton works not only as an actor, he has trained as a film editor and cameraman and cut under the name Edward Harrison the movie Down in the Valley, in which he also starred. In the TV documentary The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition, his younger brother Jim Norton, he also led camera.
During his two-year affair with Courtney Love Norton joined for two gigs in her band Hole as a guitarist on. He was engaged to actress Salma Hayek in Frida whose project he took on a role not only, but also worked on the screenplay. Since March 2011, he was engaged to producer Shauna Robertson. Since April 2013 they are married. Her first child was born in March 2013. Besides his native language, he also speaks Spanish and to some extent Japanese.
Filmography (selection)
- 2000: Keeping the Faith ( Keeping the Faith )
Awards (selection)
Synchronization
Synchronizes is Edward Norton in Germany mostly by Andreas Fröhlich, who also lends his voice to John Cusack and Bob Andrews of the three question marks. Only in American History X, Rounders and The Italian Job took over the German Dietmar Wunder voice. In The Illusionist and The Painted Veil, he was spoken by Volker Hanisch.