Birthday: Aug 18, 1969

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts

Biography: Edward H. Norton is an Oscar-nominated American actor and film director. Norton began his acting career in Off-Broadway theater. Moving into film, he was launched into the spotlight by 1996's Primal Fear, for which he won a Golden Globe and a nomination for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He earned numerous nominations, including an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, for his role in 1998's American History X, the 1998 card playing hit Rounders, and he also starre... ... (read more...) d in the 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's cult novel Fight Club. More recently, he won critical acclaim for his role as the leper king of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven. In 2000, he made his debut as a film director with Keeping the Faith. He will also direct his film adaptation of the novel Motherless Brooklyn.