
Kurt Russell
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Biography
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).
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Known For

Gunsmoke

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Oscars

The Fugitive

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

E! True Hollywood Story

Hawaii Five-O

Daniel Boone

Police Story

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

Elvis

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

Smurfs

Fast X

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

F9

Furious 7

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Val

The Fate of the Furious

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

The Road West

Vanilla Sky

Hec Ramsey

The Christmas Chronicles

Sky High

The Virginian

The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight: Extended Version

Silkwood

The Fox and the Hound

Stargate

Deepwater Horizon

Overboard

Tango & Cash

The Imagineering Story

Escape from L.A.

The Thing

Tombstone

Escape from New York

Backdraft

Big Trouble in Little China

The Quest

Death Proof

Soldier

The Barefoot Executive

Miracle

Bone Tomahawk

Elvis

The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

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