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Aaron Eckhart
Known for: ActingAaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor and producer. 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).
Filmography 51
The Dark Knight
as Harvey Dent 
Pantheon
as Cary Duval (voice) 
Deep Water
as Ben 
Midway
as Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle 
Incarnate
as Seth Ember 
Olympus Has Fallen
as President Benjamin Asher 
The First Lady
as Gerald Ford 
Sully
as Jeff Skiles 
Erin Brockovich
as George 
Battle: Los Angeles
as Michael Nantz 
London Has Fallen
as President Benjamin Asher 
The Bricklayer
as Vail 
I, Frankenstein
as Adam 
No Reservations
as Nick 
The Rum Diary
as Sanderson 
The Core
as Dr. Josh Keyes 
Any Given Sunday
as Nick Crozier 
Thursday
as Nick 
Rabbit Hole
as Howie Corbett 
The Missing
as Brake Baldwin 
The Black Dahlia
as Lee Blanchard 
Chief of Station
as Ben Malloy 
Muzzle: City of Wolves
as Jake Rosser 
Line of Duty
as Frank Penny 
Neverwas
as Zach Riley 
The Pledge
as Stan Krolak 
Paycheck
as James Rethrick 
Bleed for This
as Kevin Rooney 
Thank You for Smoking
as Nick Naylor 
Love Happens
as Burke 
Nurse Betty
as Del 
Towelhead
as Mr. Vuoso 
Thieves Highway
as Frank Bennett 
Muzzle
as Jake Rosser 
Rumble Through the Dark
as Jack Boucher 
Classified
as Evan Shaw 
Erased
as Ben Logan 
Meet Bill
as Bill 
Suspect Zero
as Thomas Mackelway 
My All American
as Darrell Royal 
Ambush
as Capitaine Drummond 
Wander
as Arthur Bretnik 
Your Friends & Neighbors
as Barry 
Possession
as Roland Mitchell 
In the Company of Men
as Chad 
Molly
as Buck McKay 
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
as Self 
Slaughter of the Innocents
as Ken Reynolds 
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage) 
Double Jeopardy
as Dwayne