Kurt Russell
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).
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
The Smurfs Musical
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
What If...?
Val
F9
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Marvel Studios Legends
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives
A Love Letter To Making Movies
QT8: The First Eight
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Crypto
The Christmas Chronicles
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Fate of the Furious
Deepwater Horizon
The Hateful Eight
Bone Tomahawk
Furious 7
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
The Art of the Steal
Django Unchained
Touchback
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Cutlass
Death Proof
Grindhouse
The Graham Norton Show
Poseidon
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
Sky High
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Los Angeles Plays Itself
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
Miracle
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Dark Blue
Interstate 60
Vanilla Sky
America: A Tribute to Heroes
3000 Miles to Graceland
Soldier
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
Lost In Space Forever
The View
Breakdown
E! True Hollywood Story
Escape from L.A.
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Executive Decision
Stargate
Forrest Gump
Tombstone
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Captain Ron
Unlawful Entry
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Backdraft
Voices That Care
Tango & Cash
Winter People
Tequila Sunrise
Overboard
Big Trouble in Little China
The Best of Times
The Mean Season
Swing Shift
Silkwood
The Thing
The Making of 'The Thing'
The Fox and the Hound
Escape from New York
Used Cars
Amber Waves
Elvis
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
The Quest
The Quest: The Longest Drive
The Deadly Tower
Search for the Gods
The Strongest Man in the World
Harry O
Superdad
Charley and the Angel
Police Story
Hec Ramsey
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Fools' Parade
The Barefoot Executive
Dad... Can I Borrow the Car?
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Love, American Style
Then Came Bronson
Room 222
Guns in the Heather
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Hawaii Five-O
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
The High Chaparral
Mosby's Marauders
Follow Me, Boys!
The F.B.I.
Laredo
Lost in Space
The Legend of Jesse James
Guns of Diablo
Gilligan's Island
Daniel Boone
The Fugitive
It Happened at the World's Fair
The Virginian
Sam Benedict
Pericles on 31st Street
The Mike Douglas Show
Gunsmoke
The Oscars
Acting
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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Self - 'Ego' (archive footage)