ED HARRIS will next be seen on screen in the Peter Weir film, The Way Back, and Dustin Lance Black’s What’s Wrong With Virginia?. His film credits include Appaloosa (director, co-screenwriter and star), Copying Beethoven, A History of Violence (Natl. Society of Film Critics Award), The Hours (Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA nominations), Pollock (directing debut , Oscar nomination), Gone Baby Gone, Stepmom, The Truman Show (Oscar nomination, Golden Globe Award), Apollo 13 (Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, SAG Award), The Right Stuff, A Flash of Green, Places in the Heart, Sweet Dreams, Jacknife, State of Grace and The Third Miracle.
Harris received both an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination (“Outstanding Solo Performance”) and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination (“Outstanding Solo Show”) for the Off-Broadway production of Wrecks at New York City’s Public Theatre. He originated the role, with writer/director Neil LaBute, for the play’s world premiere at the Everyman Palace Theatre in Cork, Ireland and recently reprised it to critical acclaim at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. His theatre credits include: Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides, Sam Shephard’s plays Fool for Love (Obie), and Simpatico (Lucille Lortel Award for “Best Actor”), George Furth’s Precious Sons (Drama Desk Award), Prairie Avenue, Scar, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath, and Sweet Bird of Youth.