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Contents Articles Edward Norton 1 Primal Fear (film) 9 The People vs. Larry Flynt 13 Everyone Says I Love You 18 Rounders (film) 22 American History X 26 Fight Club (film) 30 Keeping the Faith 45 The Score (film) 48 Death to Smoochy 51 Red Dragon (film) 54 25th Hour 57 The Italian Job (2003 film) 60 Down in the Valley (film) 69 Kingdom of Heaven (film) 72 The Illusionist (2006 film) 82 The Painted Veil (2006 film) 87 The Incredible Hulk (film) 94 Pride and Glory (film) 108 The Invention of Lying 114 Leaves of Grass (film) 119 Stone (2010 film) 124 Motherless Brooklyn 127 By the People: The Election of Barack Obama 129 References Article Sources and Contributors 131 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 135 Article Licenses License 136 Edward Norton 1 Edward Norton Edward Norton Norton at the 2009 Metropolitan Opera premiere. Born Edward Harrison Norton August 18, 1969 Columbia, Maryland, U.S. Alma mater Yale University Occupation Actor, director, producer, screenwriter, activist Years active 1994–present [1] Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Two years later, his lead role as a reformed white power skinhead in American History X earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor. His other films include period dramas such as Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Illusionist (2006), and The Painted Veil (2006); and other notable films such as Rounders (1998), Fight Club (1999), 25th Hour (2002), Red Dragon (2002), and The Incredible Hulk (2008). In addition to acting, Norton is also a writer and director. He made his directorial debut with the film Keeping the Faith (2000) and is slated to direct the film adaptation of the novel Motherless Brooklyn. Norton did uncredited work on the scripts for The Score, Frida, and The Incredible Hulk. In his private life, Norton is an environmental and social activist. He is a member of the board of trustees of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization for developing affordable housing, founded by his grandfather, James Rouse. Norton is president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation [2] [3] Trust. He ran in the 2009 New York City Marathon to raise money for the Trust. He also raises money for charity through Crowdrise, a social networking community for volunteers and a micro-donations fundraising [4] platform. In July 2010, Norton was designated as the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity by [5] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Edward Norton 2 Early life and education [6] Edward Norton was born and raised in Columbia, Maryland, near Baltimore. His father, Edward Mower Norton, Jr., is an environmental lawyer and conservation advocate working in Asia, as well as a former federal prosecutor in the Carter administration. His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (née Rouse), a teacher of English, died of a brain [7] [8] tumor in 1997. His maternal grandfather was the developer James Rouse (founder of The Rouse Company), who developed the city of Columbia, Maryland (where Norton grew up), helped develop Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Norfolk's Waterside Festival Marketplace, and Boston's Quincy Market, as well as co-founded Enterprise [7] [9] Community Partners with Norton's maternal stepgrandmother, Patty Rouse. Norton has two younger [9] siblings—Molly and Jim, with whom he has professionally collaborated. From 1981 to 1985, along with his [9] brother, he attended Camp Pasquaney, on the shores of Newfound Lake in Hebron, New Hampshire. There, he won the acting cup in 1984 and later returned to the camp's council for two years, directing theater. He maintains [7] [9] close connections with the camp. [10] [9] Norton was raised Episcopalian. He graduated from Columbia's Wilde Lake High School in 1987. He attended [11] Yale University, where he was a competitive rower and acted in university productions alongside Ron Livingston [9] [7] [9] and Paul Giamatti, graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. Following graduation, Norton worked in Osaka, Japan, consulting for his grandfather's company, Enterprise Community Partners. Norton can [12] [13] speak some Japanese. He appeared in an ESL textbook, Only in America, used by Nova, a formerly major [14] English language school. Career [7] [9] Norton moved to New York City and began his acting career in Off-Broadway theater, breaking through with [9] his 1993 involvement in Edward Albee's Fragments at the Signature Theatre Company. His first major film was 1996's Primal Fear, which tells a story of a defense attorney (Richard Gere), who defends Aaron Stampler, an altar boy (Norton), charged with the murder of a Roman Catholic archbishop. The movie is an adaptation of William [15] Diehl's 1993 novel. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Norton gives a performance that's fully the [16] equal of Gere's – he's as slyly self-effacing as Gere is slyly ostentatious." Alison Macor of The Austin Chronicle, in review of the film, wrote, "Norton's performance and the well-paced tension preceding the movie's climactic [17] [18] sequence provide an entertaining if slightly predictable thriller." Despite the mixed reviews, Norton won a [19] [20] Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. That same year, Norton appeared as Alan Isaacman in The People vs. Larry Flynt. [21] In 1998, he took on the role of Derek Vinyard, a reformed neo-Nazi in the film American History X. David Denby [22] of The New Yorker noted that Norton gives Derek "ambiguous erotic allure; he's almost appealing". American [23] [24] History X received positive reception, and grossed over $23 million worldwide at the box office. His [20] performance in the film earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He packed on 30 pounds [7] [9] (13 kg) of muscle for his role in American History X but did not maintain the physique after production. Also in 1998, Norton starred opposite Matt Damon in Rounders, a movie following two friends who need to quickly earn [25] enough cash playing poker to pay off a huge debt. In the 1999 film Fight Club, Norton played the nameless protagonist, an everyman and an unreliable narrator who feels trapped with his white-collar position in society. The film, an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the [26] same name, was directed by David Fincher. To prepare for the role, Norton took lessons in boxing, taekwondo, [27] [28] and grappling. Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival. During promotion for the film, he said, "I feel that Fight Club really, in a way ... probed into the despair and paralysis that people feel in the [29] face of having inherited this value system out of advertising." The film failed to meet expectations at the box [30] [31] office, and received polarized reactions from film critics. However, it became a cult classic after its DVD [32] release. Edward Norton 3 [9] In 2002, he starred in Brett Ratner's Red Dragon as FBI profiler Will Graham and in Spike Lee's 25th Hour. While [9] Red Dragon received mixed reviews, it was commercially successful. 25th Hour was praised by critics, [33] [34] particularly for its examination of a post-9/11 New York City, but failed to break even. [35] He played himself in a cameo role in the experimental comedy show Stella, and made another comedic television appearance on the Emmy award-winning ABC show Modern Family in 2010, playing a fictional member of real life 80's new wave band Spandau Ballet. He won critical acclaim for his role as Baldwin IV, the leper king of Jerusalem, [36] in Kingdom of Heaven. In 2006, he starred in the independent movie The Illusionist, which premiered at the [9] Sundance Film Festival and later became a sleeper hit when it went into general release. Norton has also done [9] [37] uncredited script work on some of the films he has appeared in, specifically The Score, Frida, and The [38] [9] Incredible Hulk. In 2000, he made his debut as a director with Keeping the Faith. He will also direct the film [9] [39] adaptation of the novel Motherless Brooklyn.