(Born Nov. 28, 1950) Ed Harris is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, director and producer. Harris' first important film role was in Borderline with Charles Bronson. In 1983, he became a star, playing NASA astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff; in 1996 he was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of NASA mission director Gene Kranz, in the film Apollo 13. Further Oscar nominations arrived in 1999 and 2001, for The Truman Show and Pollock respectively. More recently he appeared as a vengeful mobster in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence.