Kurt Russell

Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He began as a child actor and went on to lead roles in action-adventure, science fiction, westerns, romance, comedy and family dramas; early in life he also played minor-league professional baseball.

At 12 he began acting in the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, and in the late 1960s he signed a ten-year contract with Walt Disney Productions, starring in several Disney films. His portrayal of Elvis Presley in the 1979 television film Elvis earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination.

He often worked with director John Carpenter, playing the anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981) and its sequel Escape from L.A. (1996) to wide acclaim, and appearing in The Thing (1982) and Big Trouble in Little China (1986). His other well-known films include Stargate (1994), Tombstone (1993), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). In recent years he has played Mr. Nobody in the Fast & Furious franchise, beginning with Furious 7 (2015), and Ego, the father of Star-Lord, in the Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017).