Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor and filmmaker. His biggest commercial successes have been Red Dragon, Kingdom of Heaven, The Incredible Hulk, and The Bourne Legacy. He has received numerous awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award and three Academy Award nominations. Norton has gained notoriety for being difficult to work with.
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Edward Harrison Norton is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award and three Academy Award nominations. Besides acting and filmmaking, he is an environmental activist and social entrepreneur. Norton is married to Canadian film producer Shauna Robertson, with whom he has one child. He is a trustee of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization which advocates for affordable housing, and serves as president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He also serves as the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity. His biggest commercial successes have been Red Dragon, Kingdom of Heaven, The Incredible Hulk, and The Bourne Legacy. Norton has gained notoriety for being difficult to work with, including incidents such as editing the final cuts and rewriting screenplays against the will of other producers. His role as a reformed neo-Nazi in American History X earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. His performance in Brian Friel’s Lovers brought him to the attention of Albee, whose one-act plays Norton enjoyed. His mother, Lydia Robinson \”Robin\” Rouse, was an English teacher who died of a brain tumor in 1997. His father, Edward Mower Norton Jr., served in Vietnam as a Marine lieutenant before becoming an environmental lawyer and conservation advocate working in Asia and a federal prosecutor in the Carter administration. His maternal grandfather, James Rouse,. was the founder of real-estate developer The Rouse Company and co-founder of the real estate corporation Enterprise Community.
Partners in Osaka, Japan. He trained krav maga in both the U.S. and Japan in Japan, where he supported himself working odd jobs. He later took six months acting lessons from acting coach Terry Schreiber after discovering he was looking for a Japanese translator to direct a play in Tokyo. In 1994, Norton wrote scripts for plays at the Signature Theatre Company and starred in Off-Broadway theater plays. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and their son, who he has two younger siblings named Molly and James. He and his wife have a daughter named Molly, and he has a son named James, who was born in 2008. He lives with his family in New Jersey. He previously lived with his parents in Maryland and has a wife and two children in Los Angeles. His wife and son have two younger children named James and Molly, who were born in 2010 and 2013. His parents have a son, James, and daughter-in-law, Emily, who lives in California with her husband and their two children. His brother, James Norton Jr., is a real estate developer and real estate agent. He had a role in the film Fight Club, which garnered a cult following. He starred in The Score, 25th Hour, The Illusionist, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Norton also starred in the black comedy Birdman, which earned him another Academy Award nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He worked for five months in Japan as a not-for-profit representative for his grandfather’s company.
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