Name
Aaron Eckhart
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1968-03-12 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Cupertino, California, USA
Biography
Aaron 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).
Known For
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Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District...
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A group of international passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai is forced to ...
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In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate a...
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Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 1...
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When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attac...
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When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermin...
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In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissi...
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A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- w...
- 2008 The Dark Knight as Harvey Dent
- 2000 Erin Brockovich as George
- 2008 Towelhead as Mr. Vuoso
- 2006 The Wicker Man as Truck Stop Patron
- 2007 No Reservations as Nick
- 2000 Nurse Betty as Del
- 2002 Possession as Roland Mitchell
- 2001 The Pledge as Stan Krolak
- Soon Midair
- 2005 Neverwas as Zach Riley
- 2011 The Rum Diary as Sanderson
- 2004 Suspect Zero as Thomas Mackelway
- 2003 The Missing as Brake Baldwin
- 2009 Love Happens as Burke
- 2024 Chief of Station as Ben Malloy
- 1999 Any Given Sunday as Nick Crozier
- 2003 The Core as Dr. Josh Keyes
- 2007 Meet Bill as Bill
- 2003 Paycheck as James Rethrick
- 1998 Thursday as Nick
- 2005 Thank You for Smoking as Nick Naylor
- 2010 Rabbit Hole as Howie Corbett
- 2006 The Black Dahlia as Lee Blanchard
- 1997 In the Company of Men as Chad
- 2006 Conversations with Other Women as Man
- 1999 Molly as Buck McKay
- 2011 Battle: Los Angeles as Michael Nantz
- 2009 Heath Ledger: A Tribute as Self
- 2023 The Bricklayer as Vail
- 2024 Classified as Evan Shaw
- 2023 Muzzle as Jake Rosser
- 1998 Your Friends & Neighbors as Barry
- 2014 I, Frankenstein as Adam
- 2012 Erased as Ben Logan
- 2013 Olympus Has Fallen as President Benjamin Asher
- 2023 Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 Incarnate as Seth Ember
- 2007 Tumble as Man
- 2016 London Has Fallen as President Benjamin Asher
- 2018 The Violet Hour as Greg
- 2020 The Men of Midway as Self
- 2020 Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission as Self
- 2026 Deep Water as Ben
- 2015 My All American as Darrell Royal
- 2016 Bleed for This as Kevin Rooney
- 2019 Line of Duty as Frank Penny
- 2016 Sully as Jeff Skiles
- 2023 Ambush as Capitaine Drummond
- 2025 Thieves Highway as Frank Bennett
- Soon Raider
- 1992 Double Jeopardy as Dwayne
- 1993 Slaughter of the Innocents as Ken Reynolds
- 2019 Midway as Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle
- 2020 Wander as Arthur Bretnik
- 2007 Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience as Road Work (voice)
- 2006 Unfiltered Comedy: The Making of 'Thank You For Smoking' as Self
- 2023 Rumble Through the Dark as Jack Boucher
- Soon Scorpion
- 1992 Godly Sorrow Leads to Repentance as Matt
- 2025 Muzzle: City of Wolves as Jake Rosser
- Soon The Old Man in the Dunes
- Soon Trial by Combat as John Porter
- 1992 Shaving as Jackie
- Soon The Walk In as Eric Hayes
- Soon Out of the Ashes
- Soon Scorpion
- 2026 Model Citizen as Steven Bay
- 1997 EP Daily ( 3 episodes )
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode )
- 1997 The View ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2022 The First Lady ( 10 episodes ) as Gerald Ford
- 1997 Emeril Live ( 1 episode )
- 1996 Aliens in the Family ( 1 episode )
- 2016 Chelsea ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Frasier ( 2 episodes ) as Frank
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Pantheon ( 16 episodes ) as Cary Duval (voice)
- 2018 The Romanoffs ( 1 episode ) as Greg
- 2008 Gotham Tonight ( 4 episodes ) as Harvey Dent
- 2010 Conan ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
