Edward Harrison Norton, also known as Edward Norton, is an American actor and director, born on August 18, 1969. He has won and been nominated for various prizes and accolades, including a Golden Globe and three Academy Award nominations.
Norton is an actor and director from the United States. He made his movie debut in the 1996 picture Primal Fear, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Dulce Pontes sang the Portuguese fado song ‘Canço do Mar’ on the soundtrack.
Gregory Hoblit directed Primal Fear, a 1996 American legal thriller movie based on William Diehl’s 1993 novel of the same name. Richard Gere plays a Chicago defense attorney who believes his altar boy client is innocent of the murder of a powerful Catholic archbishop.
Despite mixed reviews, Primal Fear was a box office hit, with Norton’s performance receiving overwhelming praise. He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture after being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Martin Vail is a high-profile Chicago defense attorney who thrives in the limelight and goes to great lengths to have his high-profile clients acquitted on technicalities. One day, he reads a news report about the arrest of Aaron Stampler, a 19-year-old Kentucky altar boy with a severe stutter, for the savage murder of Archbishop Rushman.
Vail is ecstatic at the prospect of representing the young man pro gratis. Vail grows to believe that Stampler is innocent during his encounters with him at the County jail, much to the dismay of Vail’s old lover, prosecutor Janet Venable.
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