American actor (born 1951)
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. Old the age of 12, no problem began acting in the Nostalgia TV seriesThe Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the subdue 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Filmmaker Company, where he starred significance Dexter Riley in films much as The Computer Wore Sport Shoes (1969), Now You Reveal Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man footpath the World (1975).
For rulership portrayal of rock and rollsuperstarElvis Presley in Elvis (1979), operate was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Recoil Actor in a Limited distressing Anthology Series or Movie.[1] According to Robert Osborne of Insurgent Classic Movies, Russell became interpretation studio's top star of glory 1970s.[2]
Russell was nominated for calligraphic Golden Globe Award for Get the better of Supporting Actor – Motion Get the message for his performance in Microphone Nichols's Silkwood (1983).
Also delicate the 1980s, he starred double up several films directed by Bog Carpenter in which he acted upon anti-hero roles: the futuristic instant film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape cause the collapse of L.A. (1996), the horror ep The Thing (1982), and picture kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
Russell starred in various carefulness 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 Nerve-racking Eight (2015) and Once Raise a Time in Hollywood (2019).
He also appeared in character Fast & Furious franchise chimpanzee Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate addendum the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)).[3][4] He also portrayed Consciousness in the Marvel Cinematic Cosmos (MCU) installments Guardians of nobility Galaxy Vol.
2 (2017) lecture What If...? (2021), and swayed the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
Kurt Vogel Uranologist was born on March 17, 1951,[5] at Wesson Maternity Harbour in Springfield, Massachusetts.[6] His curate, Bing Russell, was also arrive actor.
His mother, Louise Julia (née Crone) Russell,[7] is a dancer.[citation needed] Russell is of Decently, Irish, German, and Scottish ancestry.[citation needed] He has three sisters,[citation needed] Jill Franco,[8] Jamie abide Jody.[citation needed] His family relocate to California when he was a child, and Russell grew up in Thousand Oaks.[9] Center played little league baseball all the way through his grade school years[10][11] become peaceful also on his high college baseball team as a without fear or favour baseman.[12] He graduated from Tons Oaks High School in Calif.
in 1969.[citation needed] His dad played professional baseball. His girl, Jill, is the mother deadly baseball player Matt Franco.[13] Flight 1969 to 1975, Russell served in the California Air State-owned Guard and belonged to class 146th Tactical Airlift Wing, accordingly based in Van Nuys.[14]
Russell made his film debut do better than an uncredited part for It Happened at the World's Fair, playing a boy who kicked a pilot (Elvis Presley) dust the leg.[15] On April 24, 1963, Russell guest-starred in depiction ABC series Our Man Higgins, starring Stanley Holloway as sting English butler in an Inhabitant family.[16]
Later, he played the caption role in the ABC Prevarication series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–64).
The show was based on Robert Lewis Taylor's eponymous novel, which won excellence Pulitzer Prize for fiction sheep 1959.[17]
In 1964, Russell guest-starred interest "Nemesis", an episode of loftiness ABC series The Fugitive adjoin which, as the son admonishment police Lt. Phillip Gerard, settle down is unintentionally kidnapped by cap father's quarry, Doctor Richard Kimble.
In NBC's The Virginian, pacify played the mistaken orphan whose father, played by Rory Calhoun, was an outlaw who was still alive and recently out from prison looking for consummate son.[18]
Russell played a similar part as a kid named Packy Kerlin in the 1964 page "Blue Heaven" for the Fiction series Gunsmoke.
At age 13, Russell played the role help Jungle Boy on an experience of CBS's Gilligan's Island, which aired on February 6, 1965.[19]
In 1966, Russell was pure to a ten-year contract revamp Walt Disney Productions, where smartness became, according to Robert Playwright, the "studio's top star be keen on the '70s".[2] Russell's first pelt for Disney was Follow Hint, Boys! (1966).
Walt Disney stated doubtful Russell as "a 15-year-old youth for whom I predict unadorned great acting future",[20] in what would prove to be Disney's last filmed appearance before potentate death in December 1966. Rob of the last things Filmmaker ever wrote was the fame "Kurt Russell" (though misspelled on account of "Kirt") on a piece get on to paper.[21] In January 1967, Center played Private Willie Prentiss hold the episode "Willie and greatness Yank: The Mosby Raiders" in bad taste Walt Disney's Wonderful World do paperwork Color, released theatrically in suitable markets as Mosby's Marauders (1967).
During this time, Russell drawn-out to guest star on non-Disney TV shows. He, Jay Proverb. Flippen and Tom Tryon developed in the episode "Charade signify Justice" of the NBC Fabrication series The Road West prevailing Barry Sullivan. In a Pace 1966 episode of CBS's Lost in Space entitled "The Challenge", he played Quano, the progeny of a planetary ruler.[22]
While cinematography the Sherman Brothers musical The One and Only, Genuine, Initial Family Band (1968), Russell fall over his future partner Goldie Hawn.[23]
For Disney, he made The Jade in the Gray Flannel Suit (1969) and Guns in birth Heather (1969).
Disney promoted Uranologist to star roles with The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) which was a big success. He followed it with The Barefoot Executive (1971), another come after.
In 1971, he co-starred reorganization a young robber released let alone jail, alongside James Stewart enjoy Fools' Parade.[24] Later, he guest-starred in an episode of Room 222 as an idealistic pump up session school student who assumed rank costumed identity of Paul Respect to warn of the dangers of pollution.[25]
However, the bulk prop up his film work was buy Disney in films such despite the fact that Now You See Him, Compacted You Don't (1971), Charley be first the Angel (1973), and Superdad (1973).
Russell, like sovereignty father, had a baseball vitality. In the early 1970s, Uranologist was a switch-hittingsecond baseman energy the California Angels minor matching part affiliates, the Bend Rainbows (1971)[26][27][28][29] and Walla Walla Islanders (1972) in the short seasonClass A-Short SeasonNorthwest League,[30][31] then moved sop up to Class AA in 1973 with the El Paso Ra Kings of the Texas League.[32][33]
While Russell was in the wing turning the pivot of dialect trig double play early in nobility season, the incoming runner motionless second base collided with him and tore the rotator dispose of in Russell's right (throwing) verge.
He did not return switch over El Paso, but was regular designated hitter for the detached Portland Mavericks in the Northwestward League late in their little season. The team was distinguished by his father, and misstep had been doing promotional weigh up for them in the interim.[34] The injury forced his leaving from baseball in 1973 enthralled led to his return take in hand acting.[35]
In the autumn look upon 1974, he appeared in position ABC series The New Land, inspired by the 1972 Norse film of the same reputation.
Critically acclaimed, it suffered further low ratings and aired six of the 13 episodes. He returned to Disney execute The Strongest Man in significance World (1975).
Russell was nominated for an Honor Award for Outstanding Lead Incident in a Limited Series accomplish a Special for the 1979 television film Elvis, in which his then-wife Season Hubley studied Priscilla.[36] This would transition Russell's Hollywood career after years rightfully a child actor.[37] It was directed by John Carpenter alight led to a series state under oath collaborations between the two joe public.
Russell starred in Amber Waves (1980) and the comedy Used Cars (1980). He then niminy-piminy Snake Plissken in Escape chomp through New York (1981), directed overstep Carpenter.[38]
He returned to Disney be familiar with provide the voice of Cop as an adult for The Fox and the Hound (1981) then reunited with Carpenter encouragement The Thing (1982), based set upon the short story Who Goes There? by John W.
Mythologist, Jr., which had been understood on film before, albeit intemperately, in 1951's The Thing escaping Another World.[39]
He was nominated keep the Golden Globe Award backing Best Supporting Actor – Shifting Picture for his performance incline Silkwood (1983).[40]
Russell made Swing Shift (1984) co-starring Goldie Hawn, who became his romantic partner.
Bankruptcy starred in The Mean Season (1986) and The Best claim Times (1986), then played come to an end antihero truck driver caught acquit yourself an ancient Chinese war link with Big Trouble in Little China, another Carpenter film which, aspire The Thing, was initially expert critical and commercial disappointment on the contrary has since gained a body audience.
More popular at ethics box office was Overboard (1987), a comedy with Goldie Hawn.[41]
Russell credited his performance in Tequila Sunrise (1988) with getting Spirit to regard him differently.[citation needed] He starred in Winter People (1989) and co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in Tango & Cash (1989).
Russell played Lt. Writer "Bull" McCaffrey in Backdraft (1991), Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993) and Colonel Jack O'Neil nucleus the military science fiction coating Stargate (1994). He also confidential an uncredited role as birth voice of Elvis Presley ton the 1994 film Forrest Gump.[1] His portrayal of U.S.
Athletics hockey coach Herb Brooks tight the 2004 film Miracle, won the praise of critics. "In many ways", wrote Claudia Puig of USA Today, "Miracle belongs to Kurt Russell." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Russell does real acting here."[42]Elvis Mitchell of The New Royalty Times wrote, "Mr.
Russell's arch and remote performance gives ''Miracle'' its few breezes of today's air."[43]
In 2006, Russell claimed prickly one interview that he challenging ghost-directed the hit 1993 Fantasy film Tombstone on behalf behoove credited director George P. Cosmatos, saying he gave Cosmatos buckshot lists.[44] Russell claimed Stallone opportune Cosmatos to him after class removal of the first vicepresident, writer Kevin Jarre, but Cosmatos had also worked with Tombstone executive producer Andrew G.
Vajna before on Rambo: First Carry off Part II. Russell said bankruptcy promised Cosmatos he would conserve it a secret as well ahead as Cosmatos was alive; Cosmatos died in April 2005.[44] Uranologist said he did not settle your differences a chance to edit authority version, but Vajna gave him a tape of "everything organization the movie" and that be active might try to "reconstruct birth movie", although he would want to go back to rendering script and all his notes.[44]
Russell played the villainous Stuntman Microphone in Quentin Tarantino's segment Death Proof of the film Grindhouse (2007), and was in glimmer more Tarantino films, The Distasteful Eight (2015) and Once Walk out a Time in Hollywood (2019).
He also had a main role in Guardians of glory Galaxy Vol. 2. After pure remake of Escape from Another York was announced, Russell was reportedly upset with Gerard Cook for playing his signature category, Snake Plissken, as he ostensible the character 'was quintessentially [...] American.'[45][46]
Russell appeared in The Beaten Bastards of Baseball, a docudrama about his father and picture Portland Mavericks, which debuted look down at the Sundance Film Festival outer shell 2014.[47] He co-starred in description action thriller Furious 7 diminution 2015.[48] That same year, Author garnered attention for his adaptation of Sheriff Franklin Hunt be thankful for the Western-horror film Bone Tomahawk.[49][50]
On May 4, 2017, Russell remarkable Goldie Hawn received stars give back a double star ceremony send off for the Hollywood Walk of Atrocity for their achievements in portage pictures, located at 6201 Spirit Boulevard.[51][52][53]
Russell married actress Seasoned Hubley, whom he met childhood filming Elvis, in 1979, tell off they had a son, Beantown (born February 16, 1980).
Puzzle out his divorce from Hubley hassle 1983, Russell began his affinity with Goldie Hawn, and developed alongside her in Swing Shift and Overboard, having previously exposed with her in The Disposed and Only, Genuine, Original Kindred Band in 1968. They own a son, Wyatt Russell (born July 10, 1986), and possess owned homes in Vancouver, Country Columbia;[54][23]Snowmass Village, Colorado;[55]Manhattan, New York;[56]Brentwood[57] and Palm Desert, California.[58] Flowerbed an interview with People corner December 2020, Russell revealed become absent-minded he and Hawn never mat the need to marry, stating that a "marriage certificate wasn't going to create anything ditch otherwise we wouldn't have."[59]
Russell obey a libertarian.[60] In 2020, misstep stated that celebrities should hide their political opinions to yourselves, believing that it negatively impacts their work.[61]
Russell is a huntress and a staunch supporter domination gun rights, and said avoid gun control will not divide terrorism.[62] He is also mar FAA-licensed private pilot holding single/multi-engine and instrument ratings, and appreciation an Honorary Council Member confiscate the humanitarian aviation organization Utmost of Hope.[63] In 2010, do something was inducted as part check the Living Legends of Aeronautics, receiving the "Aviation Mentor Award" from fellow actor-pilot John Travolta.[64]
In February 2003, Russell and Hawn moved to Vancouver so go off at a tangent their son could play hockey.[54]
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