Kurt Russell
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Biography
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He began acting on television at the age of 12 in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films, such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, he became the studio's top star of the 1970s.
Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols' Silkwood (1983). In the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter, including anti-hero roles such as army hero-turned-robber Snake Plissken in the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A. (1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody, having starred in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021), portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) installments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...? (2021), and subsequently portrayed Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
Known For
Gunsmoke
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Fugitive
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
E! True Hollywood Story
Hawaii Five-O
Daniel Boone
The F.B.I.
Stargate SG-1
The High Chaparral
What If...?
Then Came Bronson
Laredo
Sam Benedict
Lost in Space
Marvel Studios Legends
Forrest Gump
The Oscars
Elvis
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Fast X
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
F9
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Furious 7
Val
The Fate of the Furious
The Road West
Hec Ramsey
The Smurfs Movie
Vanilla Sky
The Christmas Chronicles
Sky High
The Virginian
Overboard
The Fox and the Hound
The Hateful Eight
Tango & Cash
Deepwater Horizon
The Imagineering Story
Stargate
Soldier
Bone Tomahawk
The Quest
Tombstone
Breakdown
Big Trouble in Little China
Miracle
The Thing
Escape from L.A.
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Escape from New York
Death Proof
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Backdraft
Elvis
The Barefoot Executive
Production Credits
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