Edward James Norton Jr. (innate August 18, 1969) is an Oscar nominated American actor known for his reluctance to embrace celebrity status. Norton was innate inside Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up within Columbia, Maryland.

His mother Robin, an English teacher, died of the brain tumor in 1997; his father, Edward Sr. is legal help & previous federal prosecuting attorney under a Carter administration who now works for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is the grandson of creator James Rouse (also view The Rouse Company), who designed a city of Columbia, Maryland (where Norton grew higher) & world health organization too helped evolve Baltimore's Inner Harbor and Boston's Quincy Market.

Norton graduated from either Wilde Lake High School in 1985, then Yale University in 1991 with the B.A. in history.

Norton was launched into a spotlight by 1996's Primal Fear, in which he played the immature sociopathic convict, and for which he won the Golden Globe and a nomination for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He earned many nominations, including the Best Actor Oscar, for his role as a reformed neo-Nazi in 1998's American History X, and asterisked in the 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's cult hit novel Fight Club. Supplementary recently, he played himself around the cameo role in the experimental comedy indicate Stella, and won critical acclamation for his role when a leper king within Kingdom of Heaven.

Norton has put period & money toward social activist causes, including improving the quality of sleep in on line-income communities.

He has dated actresses Salma Hayek and Drew Barrymore, when well as musician/actress Courtney Love, with whom he toured as a irregular guitar player for guide band Hole.

Filmography
Primal Fear (1996) The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Rounders (1998) American History X (1998) Fight Club (1999) Keeping the Faith (2000) (starred and directed) The Score (2001) Death to Smoochy (2002) Frida (2002) Red Dragon (2002) 25th Hour (2002) The Italian Job (2003) Down in the Valley (2005) Kingdom of Heaven (2005)