
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

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

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Furious 7

Val

The Fate of the Furious

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

The Road West

Hec Ramsey

Vanilla Sky

The Virginian

Sky High

The Christmas Chronicles

Silkwood

The Imagineering Story

The Fox and the Hound

Stargate

Overboard

Deepwater Horizon

The Hateful Eight

Tango & Cash

The Hateful Eight: Extended Version

Elvis

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Big Trouble in Little China

Bone Tomahawk

The Quest

Escape from L.A.

The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two

Breakdown

Miracle

Soldier

Escape from New York

Death Proof

The Thing

Tombstone

The Barefoot Executive

Backdraft
Production Credits
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