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12 Reasons to Give 2005 Calendar EN donated $1.1 million to Enterprise FoundationEDWARD NORTON has starred in the films Primal Fear; Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt, American History X, Rounders, Fight Club, Keeping The Faith, The Score, Death To Smoochy, Frida, Red Dragon, 25th Hour, The Italian Job, Kingdom of Heaven, Down in the Valley, The Illusionist, and The Painted Veil. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards ( Primal Fear and American History X) and won a Golden Globe along with numerous other awards for his performances. The film Frida, for which he wrote an uncredited screenplay, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two. In 2003 he won the Obie Award for his performance Off-Broadway in Burn This by Lanford Wilson. He produced and directed the film Keeping The Faith, produced Down in the Valley (Cannes Film Festival selection) and The Painted Veil, and is currently producing five other films including adaptations of Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War, Dan O'Brien's Buffalo for the Broken Heart and Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn for which he is writing the screenplay. His most recent film Pride and Glory, co-stars Colin Farrell and Jon Voight, and will be released 2009. Norton wrote the screenplay and just completed filming The Incredible Hulk. In Spring 2008, he will start filming Leaves of Grass, where he will play a dual role (he will also be a producer on the film). Norton also founded and runs Class 5 Films in partnership with his brother Jim Norton, writer Stuart Blumberg and producer Bill Migliore. They recently announced a partnership with Brad Pitt’s Plan B and National Geographic to produce an epic 10-part series for HBO based on Stephen Ambrose’s acclaimed book Undaunted Courage about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Norton and Pitt will executive produce the series. The Painted Veil is Class 5’s second major film release this year. Class 5's documentary productions include: The Great Rivers Expedition, a film for the Outdoor Life Network about an historic whitewater adventure that took place in China in 2003; and Dirty Work, a film by David Sampliner that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on the Sundance Channel last spring. Class 5 also collaborated with the Sea Studios Foundation on their highly acclaimed, multi-million dollar series about earth system sciences for National Geographic, Strange Days on Planet Earth, which Norton hosts and narrates, and which aired on PBS last year. Class 5 is currently producing a film about Senator Barak Obama.More on Class 5 Films Norton is also a committed social and environmental activist as well as being a major financial supporter of the Nature Conservancy's Yunnan Great Rivers conservation project, the Grand Canyon Trust, EarthJustice, the Wilderness Society, the Southern Center for Human Rights, American Museum of Natural History, Credit Where Credit is Due, the American Visionary Arts Museum and the Johns Hopkins Neuro-oncology Research Lab. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Enterprise Foundation, which works to move families up and out of poverty and transform low-income communities through the development of decent affordable housing and social service networks. In addition, he recently conceived and negotiated a groundbreaking arrangement with a solar energy company to provide solar power technology to low-income homeowners in Los Angeles. Through the Solar Neighbors program, each time a celebrity or public figure buys a home solar system, the solar energy company will donate a full system to a low-income family, eliminating most or all of their electricity costs for as long as they own their home. The energy company has already committed to donate 25 systems and has plans to significantly expand the program. Another of Norton's recent projects is the Peacemakers Fund at Yale University. As a response to the events of September 11th and the increasing conflict in the Middle East, Norton contributed to establish a fund that will provide travel study grants that give college undergraduates opportunities to study in the Middle East. Norton has been on the Board of New York's Signature Theater Company since 1994 and is also on the Board of Friends of the High Line, an advocacy group working to convert an abandoned freight rail line into a unique and spectacular park. Charitable ActivitiesAdditional F.A.Q.sItalian Job note: EN's involvement with Italian Job note was not out of choice but
rather a contractual obligation he has to Paramount. For
more information on the situation,
please read the L.A. Times article
The Power Option.
Just Thought I'd mentionIn Fall 2002, when EN was performing in Burn This in NYC, he had one day off a week (Monday).
He spent several of his days off (four in a two month period) in support of his other films:
Red Dragon world premiere (Sept 30- proceeds going to
The Enterprise Foundation),
the Red Dragon Baltimore benefit screening (Oct 7- proceeds going to
The Johns Hopkins Dept. of Neurosurgery Brain
Tumor Research) and then the Frida
premiere (Mon Oct 14), for which he would have had travel from New York
City to Los Angeles and back in about 48 hours to make both the Sunday afternoon and Tuesday night
performances of the play. He also participated in an additional Burn This
benefit performance with the proceeds going to the Signature Theatre Company on
Sunday night Nov 3rd and then hosted another benefit, a screening of Frida in Baltimore on
the next night Monday,
Nov 4 with the proceeds going to American Visionary Art Museum.
Plus, he was also doing interviews for Red Dragon
and Frida, as well as getting ready for Italian
Job, which he started filming in L.A. around Monday, Nov 11 after his last
Burn This performance on Sat night, Nov 9th. I wanted to point this out
because I've been mentioning all the premieres in the news section and the tendency is to just look at it as the glamorous
life of a film actor and it's not obvious of all the work that is actually taking place during this time.
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