Kurt Russell

Known for ActingBorn 1951-03-17 (age 75)Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV 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). 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. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell 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's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: 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). 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 (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).Read more

Movies & web series

The Thing Expanded

Voices That Care

Marty, Life Is Short

Forrest Gump

The Madison

Django Unchained

Amber Waves

The Quest

What If...?

Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star

The Hateful Eight

E! True Hollywood Story

The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

Return to 'Escape from New York'

The Making of 'Tombstone'

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

The Hateful Eight

The Thing

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Disney's Greatest Dog Stars

Dad... Can I Borrow the Car?

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Marvel Studios Legends

Tombstone

The Thing: Terror Takes Shape

Interstate 60

QT8: The First Eight

Furious 7

Adventure Thru the Walt Disney Archives

The Christmas Chronicles

Conan

The Graham Norton Show

F9

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Road West

Miracle

The Making of 'The Thing'

Our Man Higgins

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

Gilligan's Island

Grindhouse

Big Trouble in Little China

Deepwater Horizon

Hec Ramsey