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Aaron E. Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American film actor. He has played both leading and supporting roles in a variety of movies, and has won awards for his role as a sociopathic ladies' man in the independent Neil LaBute film In the Company of Men (1997).

He was raised in Cupertino, California, and, as a teenager, lived with his family in England and Sydney, Australia. His father is a computer executive, his mother is a children's book author, and he has two brothers. He took three years off after high school to surf in Hawaii and to serve a mission for the Latter-day Saints church in France and Switzerland. He enrolled as a film major at Brigham Young University, graduating in 1994.

Eckhart was engaged to actress Emily Cline, but separated from her in 1998. He bought a motorcycle after learning to ride one for Erin Brockovich (2000).

[edit] Acting credits

• 2006: The Black Dahlia as Lee Blanchard
• 2005: Thank You for Smoking as Nick Naylor
• 2005: Conversations With Other Women
• 2005: Burden
• 2005: Neverwas as Zach Riley
• 2004: Vapor as Nathaniel Powers
• 2004: Suspect Zero as Thomas Mackelway
• 2003: Paycheck as James Rethrick
• 2003: The Missing as Brake Baldwin
• 2003: The Core as Dr. Josh Keyes
• 2002: Possession as Roland Michell
• 2001: The Pledge as Stan Krolak
• 2000: Tumble as "Man"
• 2000: Nurse Betty as Del Sizemore
• 2000: Erin Brockovich as George
• 1999: Any Given Sunday as Nick Crozier
• 1999: Molly as Buck McKay
• 1998: Thursday as Nick
• 1998: Your Friends & Neighbors as Barry
• 1997: In the Company of Men as Chad
• 1996: "Aliens in the Family" (TV Series)
• 1997: Slaughter of the Innocents as Ken Reynolds
• 1992: Double Jeopardy (TV) (1992) as Dwayne

[edit] External links

• Aaron Eckhart at the Internet Movie Database
• Brief Bio at via LDS Utah Film personalities
• Quotes
• Blissful Charm
• 2006 Terri Gross radio interview