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Aaron Eckhart 1968 57
Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at early age, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior year. He left high school without graduating, but earned a diploma through a professional education course, and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in film. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in New York City as a struggling, unemployed actor.
As an undergraduate at BYU, Eckhart met director and writer Neil LaBute, who cast him in several of his own original plays. Five years later Eckhart made a debut as an unctuous, sociopathic ladies' man in LaBute's black comedy film In the Company of Men (1997). Under LaBute's guidance he worked in the director's films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), and Possession (2002).
Eckhart gained wide recognition as George in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film Erin Brockovich (2000), and, in 2006, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking. He gained further mainstream breakout in 2008 when he starred in the blockbuster Batman film The Dark Knight as District Attorney Harvey Dent / Two-Face. Eckhart's other key roles include The Pledge (2001), The Core (2003), Paycheck (2003), Rabbit Hole (2010), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and its sequel London Has Fallen (2016), I, Frankenstein (2014), Sully (2016), Midway (2019) and Line Of Duty (2019).
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2025 Raider
2025 Muzzle: City of Wolves as Jake Rosser
2025 Thieves Highway
2025 White Cargo Producer
2025 Midair
2025 Scorpion
2025 Deep Water
2024 Classified as Evan Shaw
2024 Chief of Station as Ben Malloy
2023 The Bricklayer as Vail
2023 Rumble Through the Dark as Jack Boucher
2023 Muzzle as Jake Rosser
2023 Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
2023 Ambush as Capitaine Drummond
2020 Wander as Arthur Bretnik
2020 Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission as Self
2020 The Men of Midway as Self
2019 Line of Duty as Frank Penny Executive Producer
2019 Midway as Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle
2018 The Violet Hour as Greg
2016 Incarnate as Dr. Seth Ember
2016 Bleed for This as Kevin Rooney
2016 Sully as Jeff Skiles
2016 London Has Fallen as President Benjamin Asher
2015 My All American as Darrell Royal
2014 I, Frankenstein as Adam
2013 The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
2013 Olympus Has Fallen as President Benjamin Asher
2012 Erased as Ben Logan Executive Producer
2011 The Rum Diary as Sanderson
2011 Battle: Los Angeles as Michael Nantz
2010 Rabbit Hole as Howie Corbett
2009 Love Happens as Burke
2009 Heath Ledger: A Tribute as Self
2008 Towelhead as Mr. Vuoso
2008 The Dark Knight as Harvey Dent
2007 Tumble as Man
2007 Meet Bill as Bill Executive Producer
2007 No Reservations as Nick
2007 Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience as Road Work (voice)
2006 Unfiltered Comedy: The Making of 'Thank You For Smoking' as Self
2006 The Black Dahlia as Lee Blanchard
2006 The Wicker Man as Truck Stop Patron
2006 Conversations with Other Women as Man
2005 Thank You for Smoking as Nick Naylor
2005 Neverwas as Zach Riley
2004 Suspect Zero as Thomas Mackelway
2003 Paycheck as James Rethrick
2003 The Missing as Brake Baldwin
2003 The Core as Dr. Josh Keyes
2002 Possession as Roland Mitchell
2001 The Pledge as Stan Krolak
2000 Nurse Betty as Del
2000 Erin Brockovich as George
1999 Any Given Sunday as Nick Crozier
1999 Molly as Buck McKay
1998 Thursday as Nick
1998 Your Friends & Neighbors as Barry
1997 In the Company of Men as Chad
1993 Slaughter of the Innocents as Ken Reynolds
1992 Double Jeopardy as Dwayne
1992 Godly Sorrow Leads to Repentance as Matt