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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

as Monterey Jack (voice)

2022
The Dry

as Aaron Falk

2021
Back to the Outback

as Chaz (voice)

2021
Envoy: Shark Cull

as Narrator (voice)

2021
The Forgiven

as Piet Blomfeld

2018
Finke: There & Back

as Narrator (voice)

2018
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

as Uther Pendragon

2017
The Secret Scripture

as Dr. William Grene

2017
The Finest Hours

as Daniel Cluff

2016
Special Correspondents

as Frank Bonneville

2016
Deliver Us from Evil

as Ralph Sarchie

2014
Closed Circuit

as Martin Rose

2013
Lone Survivor

as Lieutenant Commander Erik Kristensen

2013
Deadfall

as Addison

2012
Hanna

as Erik Heller

2011
Star Trek

as Captain Nero

2009
Love the Beast

as Self

2010
Funny People

as Clarke

2009
Mary and Max

as Damien Popodopolous (voice)

2009
The Time Traveler's Wife

as Henry DeTamble

2009
The Other Boleyn Girl

as Henry Tudor

2008
Romulus, My Father

as Romulus

2007
Munich

as Avner

2005
Troy

as Hector

2004
Finding Nemo

as

2003
Hulk

as Bruce Banner / Hulk

2003
The Nugget

as Lotto

2002
Black Hawk Down

as SFC Norm 'Hoot' Gibson

2001
Chopper

as Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read

2001
Eric Bana Eric Bana

Birthday

1968-08-09

Place of Birth

Melbourne, Australia

Biography

Eric Bana is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biopic Chopper (2000). After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of American Delta Force Sergeant Norm "Hoot" Hooten in Black Hawk Down (2001), the lead role as Bruce Banner in the Ang Lee directed film Hulk (2003), Prince Hector in the movie Troy (2004), the lead in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005), and the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek (2009). An accomplished dramatic actor and comedian, he received Australia's highest film and television awards for his performances in Chopper, Full Frontal and Romulus, My Father. Bana performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low-budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers. Eric Bana was the younger of two children; he has a brother, Anthony. He is of Croatian ancestry on his father's side. Bana's paternal grandfather, Mate Banadinović, fled to Argentina after the Second World War, and Bana's paternal grandmother emigrated to Germany and then to Australia in the 1950s with her son, Ivan (Bana's father). His father was a logistics manager for Caterpillar, Inc., and his German-born mother, Eleanor, was a hairdresser. Bana grew up in Melbourne's Tullamarine, a suburban area on the western edge of the city, near the main airport. In a cover story for The Mail on Sunday, he told author Antonella Gambotto-Burke that his family had suffered from racist taunts, and that it had distressed him. "Wog is such a terrible word," he said. He has stated: "I have always been proud of my origin, which had a big influence on my upbringing. I have always been in the company of people of European origin". Showing acting skill early in life, Bana began doing impressions of family members at the age of six or seven, first mimicking his grandfather's walk, voice and mannerisms. In school, he mimicked his teachers as a means to get out of trouble. As a teen, he watched the Mel Gibson film Mad Max (1979), and decided he wanted to become an actor. However, he did not seriously consider a career in the performing arts until 1991 when he was persuaded to try stand-up comedy while working as a barman at Melbourne's Castle Hotel. His stand-up gigs in inner-city pubs did not provide him with enough income to support himself, so he continued his work as a barman and bussing tables.
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