• Name: Gene Hackman
  
• Birth Name: Eugene Alden Hackman
  
• Height: 6' 2''
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: January 30, 1930
  
• Birth Place: San Bernadino, California
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: The University of Illinois Pasadena Playhouse in California
  
• Husband/Wife: Betsy Arakawa (classical pianist), Faye Maltese (bank clerk; divorced)
  
• Father: Eugene Ezra Hackman (newspaper pressman)
  
• Mother: Lyda
  
• Grand Mother: Beatrice Grey
  
• Son: Christopher Hackman (mother: Faye Maltese)
  
• Daughter: Elizabeth Hackman (mother: Faye Maltese), Leslie Hackman (mother: Faye Maltese)
  

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• "It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."
• "I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press."

• Golden Globe Awards: Cecil B. DeMille Award (2003)
• AFI Awards: AFI Featured Actor of the Year - Male - Movies, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2002)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2002)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actor, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2002)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role-Musical or Comedy, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Supporting Actor - Comedy, THE BIRDCAGE (1997)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Cast, THE BIRDCAGE (1997)
• Western Heritage Awards: Bronze Wrangler - Theatrical Motion Picture, GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (1994)
• British Academy Award: Best Actor Supporting, UNFORGIVEN (1993)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actor, UNFORGIVEN (1993)
• Western Heritage Awards: Bronze Wrangler - Theatrical Motion Picture, UNFORGIVEN (1993)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actor, UNFORGIVEN (1992)
• Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor, UNFORGIVEN (1992)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, UNFORGIVEN (1992)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actor, UNFORGIVEN (1992)
• Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Berlin Bear - Best Actor, MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1989)
• National Board of Review: Best Actor, MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)
• Western Heritage Awards: Bronze Wrangler - Theatrical Motion Picture, BITE THE BULLET (1976)
• National Board of Review: Best Actor, THE CONVERSATION (1974)
• British Academy Award: Best Actor Leading, THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1973)
• British Academy Award: Best Actor Leading, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1973)
• National Board of Review: Best Actor, THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1972)
• Academy Awards: Best Actor, THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role-Drama in THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Actor, THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actor, BONNIE AND CLYDE (1968)

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