• Name: Edward Norton
  
• Birth Name: Edward James Norton Jr.
  
• Height: 6' 1"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: August 18, 1969
  
• Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Wilde Lake High School, in Columbia, Maryland (graduated in 1985)
  
•   : Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (majored in history; BA; 1991)
  
• Relationship: Salma Hayek (actress; dated in 1999), Courtney Love (actress, musician; together from 1996 to 1998)
  
• Father: Edward Norton Sr. (attorney; works for National Trust for Historic Preservation)
  
• Mother: Robin Norton (teacher; died of brain cancer on March 6, 1997)
  
• Sister: Molly Norton (younger)
  
• Brother: James Norton (younger)
  
• Grand Father: James Rouse (former real-estate developer; born in 1914; died in April 1996)
  
• Grand Mother: Patricia Rouse (former philanthropist; with husband, cofounded the Enterprise Foundation)
  
• Claim to fame: as Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear
  

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• Criticizing The US president over Iraq: "It's nice being in Europe this week. Almost everyone in Germany and France is in sync with the governments. I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government."
• "If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack."
• "Acting? It's a longstanding compulsion I've had since I was about five or six years old. I can literally identify the moment it struck me. I went to see a play [IF I WERE A PRINCESS] in which a babysitter of mine [Betsy True, who later acted on Broadway] was performing. I was completely shell-shocked by the magic of this little community-theater play; it just riveted me."
• "Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it."
• "The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better."
• "Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced."
• "I'm an actor and, each time out, I'm trying to convince the audience that I'm this character. Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character [he's] playing."
• "I've never felt any particular encroachment of the 'celebrity' stuff into my life."
• "I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films."
• "It's a nice position to be in; I'm lucky. At the same time, all the excitement of that has been put into stark perspective ... In some ways, the highs of it have been blunted, which in a way, is a gift."
• "First of all, you never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me."

• Sant Jordi Awards: Best Foreign Actor, 25th HOUR (2004)
• Street Film Festival (Milan): Street Award - Best Feature Film, KEEPING THE FAITH (2000)
• Golden Satellite Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, AMERICAN HISTORY X (1999)
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, AMERICAN HISTORY X (1999)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Most Promising Actor, PRIMAL FEAR (1997)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, PRIMAL FEAR (1997)
• Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actor, PRIMAL FEAR (1997)
• Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actor, THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actor, EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU (1996)
• National Board of Review: Best Supporting Actor, PRIMAL FEAR (1996)

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