Kurt Russell
1951-03-17 ( 74 years old ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV 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). 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. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell 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's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: 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). 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 (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kurt Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Smurfs 2025-07-10
Val 2021-07-23
F9 2021-05-19
Crypto 2019-04-12
Bone Tomahawk 2015-10-23
Furious 7 2015-04-01
Touchback 2011-04-13
Cutlass 2007-10-09
Death Proof 2007-05-22
Grindhouse 2007-04-06
Poseidon 2006-05-03
Sky High 2005-07-29
Miracle 2004-02-06
Dark Blue 2002-12-14
Interstate 60 2002-04-13
Vanilla Sky 2001-12-14
Soldier 1998-10-23
Breakdown 1997-05-02
Stargate 1994-10-28
Forrest Gump 1994-06-23
Tombstone 1993-12-25
Captain Ron 1992-09-18
Unlawful Entry 1992-06-26
Backdraft 1991-05-24
Tango & Cash 1989-12-22
Winter People 1989-04-14
Overboard 1987-12-16
Swing Shift 1984-04-13
Silkwood 1983-12-14
The Thing 1982-06-25
Used Cars 1980-07-11
Amber Waves 1980-03-09
Elvis 1979-02-10
The Quest 1976-05-13
Superdad 1973-12-14
Fools' Parade 1971-08-18
Guns of Diablo 1964-10-04