
Aaron Eckhart
1 FOLLOWER • 42 CREDITS • MAR 12, 1968 • 57
Biography
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).
Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Frasier

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Honest Trailers

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Daily Show

Chelsea

The Romanoffs

The Dark Knight Rises

The Wicker Man

Any Given Sunday

The First Lady

Midway

Double Jeopardy

Pantheon

The Dark Knight

Ambush

Paycheck

Thursday

The Rum Diary

Erin Brockovich

Bleed for This

Olympus Has Fallen

No Reservations

Sully

London Has Fallen

Wander

Classified

The Bricklayer

Love Happens

Suspect Zero

Battle: Los Angeles

Incarnate

Rumble Through the Dark

I, Frankenstein

Deep Water

My All American

Line of Duty

Chief of Station

The Core
Production Credits
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