Aaron Eckhart

Edward Aaron Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) was an American film and stage actor. Born in California, he moved to England at age 13 when his father moved the family. A few years later, he began his acting career, performing in school plays, before moving to Sydney, Australia, his high school senior year. He left school without a higher education, but received a diploma in adult education courses, and graduated from Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYUH) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film. For most of the 1990s, he lived in New York, how to fight, an unemployed actor.

As a student at Brigham Young, Eckhart met director and screenwriter Neil LaBute, who cast him in several of his own original plays. Five years later, Eckhart made his debut as an oily, black female sociopath man comedy LaBute, in the company of men (1997). Under the direction of LaBute, he worked in the movies producer, your friends and neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), and possession (2002). Eckhart has chosen a role in a huge selection of movies, from science fiction films such as The Core (2003) and wages (2003), a romantic drama, as conversations with other women (2006) and No Reservations (2007).

Eckhart gained wide recognition as George in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film, Erin Brockovich (2000), and in 2006 was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as Nick Naylor in Thank You for Smoking. In 2008 he starred in big budget studio The Dark Knight, as Harvey Dent / Two-Face. Eckhart co-starred with Nicole Kidman in the movie holes Rabbit (2010).
Eckhart was born in Cupertino, Calif., the son of Mary Eckhart (née Lawrence), a poet and children's writer, and James C. Eckhart "Jim Senior", a computer executive.  He is the youngest of three brothers. Eckhart was raised by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons, LDS), the church and served as a two-year LDS mission in France and Switzerland.

Eckhart family moved to England in 1981 after the father's work in the field of information technology. The family lived in Surrey, South East England, first in Walton-on-Thames, and then moving to Cobham. While living in England Eckhart attended American Community School, now known as ACS International Schools, [6], where it was first enacted, the main role in a school production as Charlie Brown. In 1985 he moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, where he attended the American International School in Sydney for his high school senior year. He further developed his acting skills in productions like Waiting for Godot, where he admits that he is "terrible" production [10] In the autumn of his senior year, Eckhart left school to get a job working in a movie theater shopping center. In the end, he received a diploma in adult training. It also allowed Eckhart time to enjoy a year surfing and skiing in Hawaii and in coastal waters France.In 1988 Eckhart returned to the U.S. and enrolled in a film major at Brigham Young University, Hawaii, and then transferred to Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. He graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.