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Edward Norton
Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker and activist. He was nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in the films ''Primal Fear'' (1996), ''American History X'' (1998) and ''Birdman'' (2014). He also starred in other roles, such as ''Everyone Says I Love You'' (1996), ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' (1996), ''Fight Club'' (1999), ''Red Dragon'' (2002), ''25th Hour'' (2002), ''Kingdom of Heaven'' (2005), ''The Illusionist'' (2006), ''Moonrise Kingdom'' (2012) and ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014). He has also directed and co-written films, including his directorial debut, ''Keeping the Faith'' (2000). He has done uncredited work on the scripts for ''The Score'', ''Frida'' and ''The Incredible Hulk''.
Alongside his work in cinema, Norton is an environmental and social activist, and is a member of the board of trustees of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization for developing affordable housing founded by his grandfather James Rouse. Norton is president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. He ran in the 2009 New York City Marathon to raise money for the Trust.〔 He also raises money for charity through Crowdrise, a social networking community for volunteers and a micro-donations fundraising platform.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Edward Norton on Crowdrise )〕 In July 2010, Norton was designated as the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=UN names actor Edward Norton as celebrity advocate for preserving biodiversity )〕 On July 2, 2014, Norton was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustee to Signature Theatre, a not-for-profit theater Company in New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Signature Theatre - About New York's Signature Theatre )〕 Norton has been on Signature's board since 1996 and served as the co-Chair of the Capital Campaign during the building of The Pershing Square Signature Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edward Norton and Kate Roche Hope Elected to Signature Theatre Board )〕
== Early life ==
Norton was born in Boston, Massachusetts〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Edward Norton )〕 and raised in Columbia, Maryland. His father, Edward Mower Norton Jr., served in Vietnam as a Marine lieutenant and was later an environmental lawyer and conservation advocate working in Asia, as well as a former federal prosecutor in the Carter administration. His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (née Rouse), a teacher of English, died of a brain tumor in 1997. His maternal grandfather James Rouse, was the founder of The Rouse Company, who developed the city of Columbia, Maryland (where Norton grew up), helped develop Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Norfolk's Waterside Festival Marketplace and Boston's Quincy Market, as well as co-founded Enterprise Community Partners with Norton's maternal step-grandmother, Patty Rouse.〔 Norton has two younger siblings—Molly and Jim, with whom he has professionally collaborated.
From 1981 to 1985, along with his brother, Norton attended Camp Pasquaney on the shores of Newfound Lake in Bristol, New Hampshire, where he won the acting cup in 1984, returning to the camp's council for two years by directing theater and maintains close connections with the camp.〔 Norton was raised Episcopalian. He graduated in 1987 from Columbia's Wilde Lake High School, where his classmates included New York City Council member Mark Levine and best-selling author Robert Kolker. He attended Yale University, where he was a competitive rower and acted in university productions alongside Ron Livingston and Paul Giamatti, graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in History.〔 After graduation, Norton worked in Osaka, Japan, consulting for his grandfather's company, Enterprise Community Partners, and speaks some Japanese language.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20001111a1.html )〕 He appeared in an EFL textbook, ''Only in America'', used by Nova, a formerly major English language school in Japan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.viney.uk.com/onlyinamerica/norton.html )〕 He moved to New York City to star in the Off-Broadway theater, breaking through with his 1993 involvement in Edward Albee's ''Fragments'', at the Signature Theatre Company.〔
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