Eric Bana

He resides in Melbourne with his family. Mister Boothe has a daughter who is also an acclaimed actress. He loves cars and racing and often races in Australia. Most recently, Boothe has played a featured role as brothel-owner Cy Tolliver on the HBO series Deadwood. He's married and has a son, Claus, and a daughter, Sophia. However, his most lauded subsequent performance was in the 1990 CBS-TV film Family Of Spies where he played traitor Navy Officer John Walker. Bana will next be seen in Curtis Hanson's Lucky You, and is reportedly one of several actors under consideration to play James Bond when Pierce Brosnan retires from the role. He also gave several fine performances in other films like Southern Comfort, A Breed Apart, Red Dawn, The Emerald Forest, and Extreme Prejudice, as well as HBO films like Into The Homeland and By Dawn's Early Light.

After this, his international reputation grew, and he played a supporting role in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and took the title role in Ang Lee's 2003 movie Hulk He also played prince Hector in the epic Troy (2004), based on Homer's Iliad. He said at the time, "this may be either the bravest moment of my career or the dumbest." He joined the ranks of Humphrey Bogart and other actors when he portrayed Philip Marlowe in a series of short films for HBO in 1983-1986. Chopper garnered world-wide attention, and won three Australian Film Institute awards, including a "Best Actor" award for Bana. During the actors' strike in the fall of 1980, he was one of the few who showed up at the ceremonies to claim his prize. Aside from a small role in the Australian independent-hit The Castle in which he played a kickboxer, Bana disappeared from Australia's entertainment screens for several years, only to make a re-appearance in the gritty black comedy Chopper in 2000, about the infamous Australian underworld figure, Mark Brandon Read. A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the charisma and evil of 'Dad', Jim Jones." Boothe won an Emmy Award for his role, beating out veterans Henry Fonda and Jason Robards. His most enduring character from his early career is the typically aussie character of "Poida". In Time Magazine's story on the production, Boothe was praised: "There is one extraordinary performance.

Later, he was the star and/or anchor for two short-running TV shows; the TV show Eric (1996), a sketch comedy show that he wrote, coproduced and starred in, and The Eric Bana Show Live (1997), a variety show. Boothe's portrayal of the crazed cult leader received critical acclaim. Eric Bana began his career as a comedian, first coming to national attention in the comedy sketch series Full Frontal. A native of Texas with extensive stage experience, Boothe first came to prominence in 1980 playing the title role in the CBS-TV movie Guyana Tragedy: The Story Of Jim Jones. He originally dreamed of becoming a car mechanic and tried his hand in odd jobs, including tending bar, where he also did stand-up comedy. Powers Boothe is a television and movie actor. He was born Eric Banadinovich on to a German mother and a Croatian father.

Eric Bana (born August 9, 1968 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actor.