Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor. He gained wide recognition as George in Steven Soderbergh’s film Erin Brockovich. In 2006, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking. In 2008, he starred in the blockbuster Batman film The Dark Knight as District Attorney Harvey Dent.
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Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at age 13, when his father relocated the family. He left high school without graduating, but earned a diploma through an adult education course, and graduated from Brigham Young University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film. Eckhart gained wide recognition as George in Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed film Erin Brockovich. In 2006, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking. Another mainstream breakout occurred in 2008 when he starred in the blockbuster Batman film The Dark Knight as District Attorney Harvey Dent. The Pledge, Paycheck, Rabbit Hole, Battle: Los Angeles, Olympus Has Fallen and its sequel London Has Fallen, I, Frankenstein, Sully, and Midway are among Eckhart’s other film roles. He is the son of Mary Martha Lawrence, a writer, artist, and poet, and James Conrad Eckhart, a computer executive. His father is of German-Russian descent, while his mother has English, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish ancestry. He was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served a two-year mission in France and Switzerland. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two children. He has a son and a daughter with his ex-wife, and a son with a daughter and a step-son with whom he has two step-grandchildren.
He also has a stepson and step-daughter who are both actors and have appeared in a number of films and TV shows. He lives with his parents in Manhattan, New York, and has a fiancée in Los Angeles, California. His son and daughter have a son together in New Jersey, and he has a daughter who lives in San Diego, California with his fiancee. He and his wife have two children who have been married for two years and are expecting their first child in June 2015. The couple have a daughter, a daughter-in-law who is due to give birth to a son in July 2015. He plans to have his first child with his second wife, a girl, in the spring of 2015. His wife is a mother-of-two, and they have two sons together, a boy and a girl. In the Company of Men was a critical success, winning Best First Film at the 63rd annual New York Film Critics Circle Award. The film won him the Independent Spirit Award in the Best Performance of The Debut category in the category of Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Feature Film. The actor has also starred in The Pledge, Paycheck, Rabbit Hole, and Battle: Los Angeles. In 1997, he was approached by director Neil LaBute to star in a film adaptation of In the company of Men. He played a frustrated whitecollar worker who planned to woo a deaf office worker, then suddenly dump her.
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