Biography of Eric Bana

By Australian pub in Hollywood

August 9, 1968 Eric Banadinovich Eric, better known as Eric Bana was born in Tullmarine, Melbourne, Australia, on 9 August 1968. Actor, owes its fame to the 2000 film "Chopper", which he handed to large international audience. From there, the hatched the doors of Hollywood, who finally brought shields an actor known for many years in his own country for his innate qualities of comedy. Internationally, it is also known for being a dramatic actor, able to cover roles also vary widely. His mother and father are Eleanor, of German origin, and Ivan Slavic ancestry, obviously Banadinovich Eric for accuracy. His older brother, Anthony, works in a bank. The young Eric as a boy is a bit rowdy and needs his father the continuation of studies in fourteen years he wanted to leave to get to be a mechanic. Once graduated, is being done in different ways, as a laborer, dishwasher and barman, especially. The first steps in this direction, moves them at Melbourne's Castle Hotel. Here for the first time he experiences his vein comedienne, entertaining customers with imitations, which are immediately successful. By this time, encouraged by his performances, began her career, which can only begin in the various rooms of his city. However, the pickings are slim, and to survive the boy from Melbourne must get busy even in pubs, lifting beer kegs, backed by 191 cm tall. The turning point came in 1991, when Eric Bana was invited to take part on the tv show "Full Frontal". The success is almost immediate and within a few years he was custom designed a program for him, on tv, which was launched in 1996: "The Eric Bana Show Live". Meanwhile, having moved to Sidney, studying dramatic actor, attending the courses of the National Institute of Dramatic Art. The young actor and former dishwasher in a short time become one of the best Australian comedians. In 1997 is called to play a small part in the Australian comedy "The Castle", which is his first feature film. However, this year is also important because the young Eric decides to marry his girlfriend, Rebecca Gleeson, daughter of an Australian judge. The two get married in 2 August 1997 wedding and together they have two children: Klaus, born in 1999, and Sophia, born three years later. You have to wait until 2000 though to see take off an acting career of Eric Bana. The Director Andrew Dominik wants him in his "Chopper" blockbuster movies that surprise hit at the box office. Bana plays the role of a criminal psychopath named Mark Brandon, known as "Chopper Read", it never fails to elicit a great appreciation from audiences and critics. The interpretation is combined with those of Robert De Niro as Bana works in pure style "actors Studio", get fat like his character and he studied by living side by side, for several days, imbibing habits, ways of doing and talk. The film was presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, with a deployment even in the States, while the actor of Melbourne he was awarded best actor by the Australian Film Critics Award and the Australian Film Institute. The next year is to "Black Hawk Down", in which Bana starred alongside Ewan McGregor. The film is signed Ridley Scott and turns in Hollywood, telling the story written by Mark Bowden, focused on the war in Somalia of 1993. In this blockbuster movies, followed by other important films, like "The nugget" and the vocal part in "Finding Nemo", where it gives a voice to Anchor. The 2003 is the year of great popularity. Eric Bana is called by Ang Lee, to step into the shoes of Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the comic book hero "the Hulk". The success is great and the Australian actor is known worldwide. The success is repeated when he decided to jump in ancient Greece narrated by Homer, in the role of the Trojan hero Hector, according to the wishes of Wolfgang Petersen and his "Troy". With him on the set, there's also the enemy's Brad Pitt as Achilles. In 2005 Steven Spielberg calls him for his "Munich". A year later, is a poker player in "the rules of the game" for the direction of Curtis Hanson. In 2007 is Henry VIII King of England, in the famous "The other Boleyn Girl," with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Two years later is called in the cast of Star Trek for the eleventh film in the famous saga. The 2009 is the year of his directorial debut with the documentary "Love the Beast". In 2011 is a former CIA agent in the film "Hanna", by Joe Wright. Motorcycle enthusiast, Eric Bana also loves sports, especially cycling and triathlon.
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