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Edward Harrison Norton was born on 18 August 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts USA. Edward is a famous actor, director, producer and screenwriter, perhaps best known for movies such as “Fight Club”, “The Illusionist”, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, and “Birdman” among others.

So how rich is Edward Norton? It is estimated that Norton’s net worth is $70 million, the main source of his wealth being Edward’s appearances in movies and television shows. His work as a director and screenwriter has also added to his net worth. As he is now just 45 years old, there is a high chance that his net worth will become higher as he will probably continue his acting career.

When Edward Norton became interested in acting when still very young. He participated in different acting events while he was studying at school, and later when he continued his studies at Yale University, from where he graduated in 1991 with a BA degree in history. Edward then worked for his father for a short time, including in Japan, before beginning his acting career in several Broadway plays, one of the first of which was in the play called “Fragments”. Soon he received a invitation to act in the movie entitled “Primal Fear” in 1996, and this was the time when Edward’s net worth really began growing. In 1998 Norton acted in one of his most successful movies, “American History X”, which gained a lot of acclaim and Edward was praised for his acting skills. One year later, Edward became a part of another very famous movie, called “Fight Club”. This movie is now considered to be one of the best movies of all time, and its success had a huge impact on the growth of Edward Norton’s net worth. Other movies and television shows that Edward has appeared in include “Modern Family”, “Saturday Night Live”, “Moonrise Kingdom”, “Te Dictator”, “Leaves of Grass” and others. After the huge success that he gained in 2014for acting in the “Birdman”, there is no doubt that he will receive even more invitations to act in different projects, and that his fans will see his work soon.

During his outstanding career as an actor, Edward has appeared in over 30 films and TV shows. He has won several awards, including Golden Globe Award, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, Jupiter Award, Critics’ Choice Movie Award and others.

In addition to his career as an actor, Edward is involved in different organizations, which raise awareness and funds for different environmental and social problems. It is clear that Edward is a very talented and generous person, who will probably continue acting for a long time in the future.

Talking about Edward’s personal life, it can be said that in 2012 he married Shauna Robertson and the couple has one son now. Another reason why Edward has so many fans is that he is a very down to earth person, as he does not flaunt his fame, and tries to live a normal life. All in all, Edward Norton is one of the most popular contemporary actors, who has appeared in many successful and acclaimed movies. Let’s hope that he will continue acting in interesting projects and that his net worth will grow.

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Edward Norton Trademarks

1. Distinctive voice
2. Often plays intelligent but troubled characters
3. Known to play characters who have dual personalities

Edward Norton Quotes

• I grew up an honorary Jew. If you go to more than ten barmitzvahs you get an honorary Jew certificate. I went to at least ten in one year. I was drunk on Manischevitz half of 1987!
• [After not voting for George W. Bush in 2004] Do tax breaks for movie stars make any sense to you?
• If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I’m going to have a heart attack.
• [About George W. Bush] I almost forgot what it’s like to be proud of my government.
• [About congress & global warming] I have very little doubt that the legacy of my generation is going to hinge on how we respond to these revelations that we’re not living sustainably and that we are altering the environment.
• I spent a lot of my early career in the theatre – and by that I mean as an usher.
• There’s been a shift from people buying DVDs to streaming them online. The studios have been asleep at the switch and suffered a huge loss of revenue from falling DVD sales. Unfortunately, that revenue was often what helped convince them to make films which aren’t blockbusters. Studios aren’t as willing to make mid-budget, more thoughtful films aimed at adults. It’s more challenging to get those films made than it was.
• I studied music, theater and fine arts. My mother taught English literature and courses on Shakespeare (William Shakespeare). She was a regular theatergoer and I used to go with her. When I was 16, I saw Ian McKellen do a one-man show called Acting Shakespeare. It had an impact on my sense that acting was something you could do as an adult that affected people, that it wasn’t just for entertainment, that you could change someone’s mind with it. I started performing in the theater a lot more after that.
• We’ve had a seminal legal decision whereby the Supreme Court defined corporations as having the same rights as individuals. It’s having a massive impact on our politics. It’s unleashed unlimited corporate spending on our elections, which is terrifying. The facade is now fully peeled off. There’s no pretense about having limitations over how wealthy individuals and corporations can exert an unhealthy influence on politics with their money. It used to be a game – now no one’s pretending any more. Individuals can contribute $20million while previously the maximum was $5,000. It’s a radical transformation. You wonder what will occur before people feel it’s creating an imbalance which diminishes them.
• When you’re working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they’re pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I’ve found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don’t have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.
• I haven’t personally really engaged in a lot of this new kind of social networking stuff like Twitter or Facebook or MySpace. I mean, the notion of people following what I am doing every day is like torture for me. It’s absolutely the last thing that I’m looking for. It seems to me to be really just about social chatter.
• All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It’s fun, and it’s fun because it’s hard.
• [on his role as a policeman in Pride and Glory (2008)] I started to have a special interest in this project when I thought this could actually be something that’s reflecting the moment we are going through – in terms of a nation and as a culture – regarding a sense of ethics.
• I remember when I heard they were making The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), I was like, ‘God, if they cheese those out, I’m going to be so disappointed. (But) those films were inspiring to me in terms of deciding to take The Incredible Hulk (2008).
• [on Robert De Niro] I look at De Niro, and the thing I admire about him is just the length and diversity of his career. He has just done so much wonderful work and so many different kinds of work. That to me is worth something.
• [on showing Marlon Brando The Simpsons (1989)] I showed him the episode where Marge gets cast in a musical version of “A Streetcar Named Desire”. He loved it. Marlon loves stuff like that.
• He has such a rich mellifluous voice. Anytime I would hear him speak, it would remind me of how flat my voice is. (about Ralph Fiennes)
• Just because you’ve made a couple movies, you’ve done some good movies, you’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody’s entitled. It’s a business. If they don’t see it, I can think they’re wrong, but I’m not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
• I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It’s just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
• In fact, the United States today keeps on making the same sort of mistakes. We force those methods we think are useful on a few countries, hoping to make a few changes.
• Nobody makes me uncomfortable here. It’s a place where you can be eternally anonymous. – the reason he loves living in New York City.
• I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
• I’m not interested in making movies for everybody. I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
• People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
• First of all, you never make all things for all people and can’t always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
• It’s a nice position to be in; I’m lucky. At the same time, all the excitement of that has been put into stark perspective … In some ways, the highs of it have been blunted, which in a way, is a gift.
• The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
• I’m an actor and, each time out, I’m trying to convince the audience that I’m this character. Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character [he’s] playing.
• I’ve never felt any particular encroachment of the ‘celebrity’ stuff into my life.
• Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.
• If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I’m gonna have a heart attack.
• Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced.
• I don’t smoke and I don’t want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
• Acting? It’s a longstanding compulsion I’ve had since I was about five or six years old. I can literally identify the moment it struck me. I went to see a play [If I Were a Princess] in which a babysitter of mine [Betsy True, who later acted on Broadway] was performing. I was completely shell-shocked by the magic of this little community-theater play; it just riveted me.

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• Was born on the exact same date as fellow actor Christian Slater (August 18, 1969).
• As of 2015, has appeared in two films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
• He has English, as well as German, Irish, and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), ancestry.
• Has a son named Atlas with wife, Producer Shauna Robertson, born March 2013.
• Married fiancé of six years, Shauna Robertson, in a secret wedding ceremony (2012).
• His 5 favorite films are: 1. The Cruise (1998), 2. The King of Comedy (1982), 3. Tampopo (1986)_, 4. _Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)_ and 5. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935).
• In 2012, made a video for the campaign of President Barack Obama.
• Was a big fan of the “Incredible Hulk” comics and played the title character in a 2008 Adaptation.
• Ran the New York City Marathon in November 2009 in an effort to raise money for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
• Following graduation, Norton worked in Osaka, Japan, consulting for his grandfather’s company, Enterprise Foundation. He also appeared in an ESL textbook, Only in America, used by Nova, a major Japanese language school.
• Lives in New York City.
• Specializes in characters with multiple personalities, be it as a mental defect or a disguise. He has played people with several identities in Primal Fear (1996), Fight Club (1999), The Score (2001), The Incredible Hulk (2008) and arguably in American History X (1998) in which his character turns 180° during the course of the story and in Death to Smoochy (2002) in which he portrayed a professional actor and his character Smoochie the Rhino.
• He often works out daily, mainly weight-lifting, before he’s on set.
• Auditioned for roles in With Honors (1994), Hackers (1995), and Up Close & Personal (1996) before his film debut in Primal Fear (1996).
• He was was going to play Terry Fitzgerald in Spawn (1997) but pulled out of the project.
• Says if he wasn’t an actor he would be a pilot.
• Partner is producer Shauna Robertson.
• Studied with renowned Hollywood Gun Coach Thell Reed, who taught other actors as: Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster and Girard Swan.
• Turned down the role of Bruce Banner in Hulk (2003), but took the part in The Incredible Hulk (2008).
• Speaks some French and said he really liked the work of François Truffaut, a French director.
• Is an active member of Friends of The High Line, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and reuse of the High Line – a 1.5 mile elevated railway that runs along the West Side of Manhattan. Norton appears in a video made by Good Mag about the conversion of the old rail line into a multi-use trail.
• Like fellow film actors Peter Sarsgaard, Kimilee Bryant and Jeanine Louise DeName, he studied at New York City’s famous T. Schreiber Studio.
• Credits legendary acting coach Terry Schreiber as being a major reason behind his success as an actor. The story was that Norton, who speaks Japanese, worked a deal with Schreiber to trade acting lessons for Norton teaching Schreiber Japanese. Schreiber was to direct a play in Japan at the time, and agreed to the deal. Norton studied with Schreiber for about three years in the early 90s in New York, and his career subsequently took off. Norton wrote the introduction to Schreiber’s 2005 acting text “Acting: Advanced Techniques for the Actor, Director, and Teacher”.
• Did an uncredited rewrite of the script of Frida (2002).
• Won a Village Voice Obie Award for his role in the off-Broadway show Burn This in 2003.
• Stuart Blumberg, Edward’s friend from his Yale college days, wrote most of what was to become the basis for Keeping the Faith (2000). Edward starred, produced, and directed the romantic comedy, but he also assisted Stuart in writing the original story.
• He treasures his private life and being able to live a normal life – and can’t imagine not being able to take the New York subway if he gets too famous.
• He speaks Spanish
• Was 33 years old when he played Will Graham in Red Dragon (2002). His predecessor, William Petersen, was also 33 years old when he played the same role in Manhunter (1986).
• Was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was raised in Baltimore, Maryland.
• He served as Artistic Director for the Signature Theatre Company in New York from 2001-2003. He is currently still on the board.
• Was once attached to star as the lead in Runaway Jury (2003)
• Voted International Man of the Year (2003) By British GQ Magazine
• Was attached at one point to star in Hart’s War (2002) but walked away from the project and an $8 million salary. The role later went to Colin Farrell.
• College buddies with Ron Livingston and Paul Giamatti at Yale University.
• Norton already had two Oscar nominations before he was 30.
• As a response to the events of September 11th and the increasing conflict in the Middle East, he contributed to establish the Middle East Peacemakers Fund at Yale University.
• His father, Edward Norton Sr. was an attorney for president Jimmy Carter.
• Did NOT attend the famed Yale Drama School, as reported in many news paper articles. He attended Yale merely as an undergraduate.
• His grandfather, James Rouse, designed the planned community Norton was raised in – Columbia, Maryland.
• Has a tabby cat named Maggie, named after the character from Cat in a Hot Tin Roof.
• Played “The Captain” in a VH1 Captain & Tennille Behind the Music skit on Saturday Night Live (1975) with Drew Barrymore. The show aired the night before the 1999 Oscars where he was a nominee for American History X (1998). Barrymore accompanied Edward to the Oscars.
• Producers of American Psycho (2000) wanted him to play Patrick Bateman.
• Holds benefit screenings of his films mostly at The Senator Theatre in Baltimore, MD to benefit some charities that includes the Living Classroooms Foundation and the St. Frances Academy Robin Norton Scholarship Fund in honor of his late mother.
• Lost several pounds for Fight Club (1999).
• His grandfather, James Rouse, is credited with being the inventor of the modern shopping mall.
• Was considered for the role of Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon (1999). Director Milos Forman could not decide between him and Jim Carrey and left the decision up to the studio. The studio decided to go with Carrey.
• Oldest of three children.
• Turned down the role of Private Ryan in Saving Private Ryan (1998).
• Older brother of Molly Norton and James Norton.
• Dedicated his directoral debut, Keeping the Faith (2000), to his late mother, Robin.
• Got the role for Fight Club (1999) because director David Fincher enjoyed his performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which was the only film of the actor that he had seen.
• Auditioned for the role of ‘Rudy Baylor’ in the movie The Rainmaker (1997). The role eventually went to Matt Damon.
• His babysitter, Betsy True, went on to perform as Cossette in a Broadway version of Les Miserables. She was the one who originally piqued Edward’s interest in acting, taking him to see his first play, If I Were A Princess, at age six.
• While a precocious 8-year-old actor, he asked a surprised director of a play, “What is my objective here?” The director was startled by his interest in acting.
• According to Yale’s newspaper, he has wanted to play the poet Dylan Thomas for a long time, but feels he’s not physically right for the part.
• The theme song for Keeping the Faith (2000) – “Heart of Mine” by Peter Salett – was not written specifically for the film. Salett is a good friend of Edward’s.
• Received a B.A. in history from Yale in 1991, but took many theater and Japanese courses as an undergraduate. He has said in interviews that he took as many theater courses as he could without majoring in theater.
• Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland, where Edward graduated in 1987, built a new auditorium for the performing arts several years ago. He revisited his alma mater and gave a lecture on the day of the dedication. It is named after Edward’s grandfather, James Rouse.
• Speaks some Japanese, which helped when he worked, briefly, for his grandfather’s company, The Enterprise Foundation. He was assigned to the Osaka, Japan branch until he quit the desk job grind at his grandfather’s suggestion and decided to try to break into acting in New York.
• He worked as a waiter, a proofreader, and a director’s assistant to try to get his foot in the door in New York City. He applied to be a New York City cab driver, but he was rejected for the license because he didn’t meet the age requirement.
• His character, Worm, in Rounders (1998) was originally supposed to smoke but being avid non-smoker, he refused and the part rewritten as a non-smoker.
• He and Rounders (1998) co-star Matt Damon competed in the World Series of Poker at Las Vegas on May 1998 with the movie studio Miramax paying the $10,000 per person entrance fee.
• During filming Fight Club (1999), he and co-star Brad Pitt took soap-making classes.
• (June 29, 2000) Was one of the few celebrities invited to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s Malibu wedding.
• His character Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear (1996), which was based on a book, did not have a stutter, but when he auditioned he gave him one.
• When Norton met with the director for Primal Fear (1996), he told them that he, like Aaron, came from eastern Kentucky. Norton even spoke with the twang (which he prepared by watching Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)).
• In July 1998, after a New Yorker jibe in a review of a documentary about Courtney Love, Norton sent the magazine a frameable letter. Norton’s missive was in response to Endless Love, a piece by Daphne Merkin centering on Nick Broomfield’s controversial documentary Kurt & Courtney (1998). The film, filled with speculation that Love’s husband Kurt Cobain’s death was murder rather than suicide, features a litany of Love-haters anxious to air their grievances. The magazine’s coverage of Broomfield’s film “along with Merkin’s thoughtful contributions” didn’t sit well with Norton.
• He played guitar with Courtney Love’s band, Hole, in two gigs in Los Angeles, in December 1998.
• On his return to New York, it took less than two years of waiting tables before the young thespian to capture the eye of Edward Albee, one of the most celebrated playwrights of the 20th century. Albee was working with the Signature Theater Company on a new production of Fragments. One audition and Norton landed the role, as well as a slot in Signature’s repertory company. He currently serves on its board of directors.
• Following graduation, he worked in Osaka, Japan, consulting for his grandfather’s company, Enterprise Foundation, which works to create decent, affordable housing for low-income families.

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