Aaron Eckhart's Real Name: Aaron Eckhart

Quick answer: The actor is known professionally as Aaron Eckhart. Encyclopedia.com and the Golden Globes independently date his birth to March 12, 1968, in Cupertino, California.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers identify him under the professional name Aaron Eckhart. Encyclopedia.com dates the birth to March 12, 1968, in Cupertino, California, says his father was a computer executive and his mother a children's book author, records a B.F.A. from Brigham Young University in 1994, and lists his religion as Mormon. It also notes later early work as a bus driver, construction worker, bartender, and waiter, and an appearance in an advertisement for Miller beer. The Golden Globes independently date the birth to March 12, 1968, in Cupertino, California.

Career highlights

Encyclopedia.com says he received a 1998 Independent Spirit Award for best debut performance, and a Golden Satellite special achievement award, for In the Company of Men (1997), and lists later films including Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999), Erin Brockovich (2000), Nurse Betty (2000), The Pledge (2001), Possession (2002), The Core (2003), The Missing (2003), Paycheck (2003), The Black Dahlia (2006), and Thank You for Smoking, which it dates to 2005. It also records an early television movie, Double Jeopardy (1992), later television work on Frasier, and later stage work in The Mercy Seat in New York and Oleanna in London in 2004. Encyclopedia.com further lists Thursday (1998), Molly (1999), Suspect Zero (2004), Conversations with Other Women (2005), and later work as co-producer of Neverwas (2005). The Golden Globes independently record work with Neil LaBute on In the Company of Men (1997), Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), and Possession (2002), later work in Erin Brockovich (2000), Thank You for Smoking, which they date to 2006, a 2007 Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a musical or comedy for that film, and later films including No Reservations (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), The Rum Diary (2011), Olympus Has Fallen (2013), London Has Fallen (2016), Bleed for This (2016), and Sully (2016).

Name notes for searchers

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