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What is Ed Harris' Net Worth and Salary?

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Ed Harris is an American actor, director, and screenwriter who has a net worth of $25 million. Harris has more than 100 acting credits to his name, including the films "The Abyss" (1989), "Apollo 13" (1995), "The Rock" (1996), and "The Truman Show" (1998). A four-time Oscar nominee, Ed made his film debut in the 1978 film "Coma." Harris wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the 2008 Western "Appaloosa," and he also directed 2000's "Pollock."

He is well-known in theatre, having appeared in plays such as "Buried Child" (2016–2017) and "To Kill a Mockingbird" (2019–2020), and he earned a Tony nomination for his performance in a 1986 production of "Precious Sons." In 2016, Ed began starring as the Man in Black on the HBO series "Westworld," which has earned him $250,000 per episode as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination.

In 1976, Ed appeared in Pasadena Repertory Theatre productions of Thomas Rickman's "Baalam" and Tennessee Williams's "Kingdom of Earth" and made his television debut on an episode of the NBC series "Gibbsville." He then had guest-starring roles on "Delvecchio" (1977), "The Rockford Files" (1978), "David Cassidy: Man Undercover" (1978), and "Barnaby Jones" (1979) and appeared in the 1978 film "Coma" and the TV movies "The AmazingHoward Hughes" (1978) and "The Seekers" (1979). Harris appeared in 15 films in the 1980s, including "The Right Stuff" (1983), "Places in the Heart" (1984), "To Kill a Priest" (1988), and theJames Cameron-directed science-fiction film "The Abyss," which grossed $90 million at the box office. In 1982, Ed appeared inStephen King's"Creepshow," and he would take on the Master of Horror's work again in the 1993 film "Needful Things" and the 1994 miniseries "The Stand." In the '80s, he also guest-starred on "CHiPs" (1981) and "Hart to Hart" (1981), appeared in the television films "The Aliens Are Coming" (1980) and "The Last Innocent Man" (1987), and received a Golden Globe nomination for the film "Jacknife."

In 2012, Harris playedJohn McCainin the HBO film "Game Change" and won a Golden Globe for his performance, then he starred in "Snowpiercer" (2013), "Cymbeline" (2015), and "Rules Don't Apply" (2016) and lent his voice to theSandra Bullock–George Clooneyfilm "Gravity" (2013) and the animated movie "Planes: Fire & Rescue" (2014). In 2016, Ed landed the role of a sadistic villain known as the Man in Black on the science-fiction/Western/dystopian series "Westworld," and in recent years, he has appeared in the films "Mother!" (2017), "Kodachrome" (2017), and "The Last Full Measure" (2019). He filmed "Top Gun: Maverick" in 2019, and he portrayed George S. Patton in 2020's "Resistance."

Ed Harris was born Edward Allen Harris on November 28, 1950, in Englewood, New Jersey. His mother, Margaret, was a travel agent, and his father, Robert, was a member of the Fred Waring chorus and worked at the Art Institute of Chicago's bookstore. Ed grew up in a Presbyterian household in Tenafly, New Jersey, with brothers Robert and Paul, and he attended Tenafly High School. Harris played football in high school and was the team's captain during his senior year. After graduating in 1969, he enrolled at Columbia University, where he became interested in acting, but two years later, Ed's family moved away, and he decided to go with them. He attended the University of Oklahoma and began starring in local theatrical productions, then moved to Los Angeles in 1973. Harris studied at the California Institute of the Arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1975.

In the 1990s, Ed starred in a string of successful films, winning a Valladolid International Film Festival Award for 1992's "Glengarry Glen Ross," co-starring withTom Cruisein the 1993 box office hit ($270.2 million) "The Firm," portraying E. Howard Hunt in 1995's "Nixon," and earning a Golden Globe for 1998's "The Truman Show." In 1995, he played Mission Control Director Gene Kranz in "Apollo 13," which won several awards and brought in $355.2 million at the box office, and the following year, he produced and starred in the television film "Riders of the Purple Sage." Harris played artistJackson Pollockin 2000's "Pollock," which he also directed and produced, then appeared in "A Beautiful Mind" (2001), "Enemy at the Gates" (2001), "The Hours" (2002), and "The Human Stain" (2003). In 2005, he starred in the HBO miniseries "Empire Falls" as well as the films "Winter Passing" and "A History of Violence." Ed portrayed Ludwig van Beethoven in 2006's "Copying Beethoven," then starred in 2007's "Gone Baby Gone," "Cleaner," and "National Treasure: Book of Secrets."

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