
Kurt Russell
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Biography
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s.
Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
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Known For

Gunsmoke

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

E! True Hollywood Story

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Hawaii Five-O

Daniel Boone

Police Story

The F.B.I.

The Fugitive

Stargate SG-1

The High Chaparral

What If...?

Then Came Bronson

Laredo

Lost in Space

Sam Benedict

Marvel Studios Legends

Forrest Gump

The Oscars

Elvis

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

Smurfs

Val

Fast X

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

F9

Furious 7

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

The Fate of the Furious

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

The Road West

Hec Ramsey

Vanilla Sky

The Christmas Chronicles

The Virginian

Sky High

The Imagineering Story

Overboard

Tango & Cash

Silkwood

The Hateful Eight

Deepwater Horizon

The Fox and the Hound

Stargate

The Barefoot Executive

Escape from New York

Backdraft

The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Big Trouble in Little China

Miracle

Tombstone

The Quest

Elvis

Bone Tomahawk

Breakdown

The Thing

Death Proof

Soldier

Escape from L.A.
Production Credits
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