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Ron Eldard

Ron Eldard recently starred in the ABC television series Blind Justice, an innovative take on the modern police drama. In the acclaimed series Eldard played New York Detective Jim Dunbar, who returns to the job after being blinded in a shootout.

Eldard's film work includes Ridley Scott's Oscar-nominated Black Hawk Down, in which he played a helicopter pilot captured by Somalis. Eldard also starred in the supernatural thriller Ghost Ship, the drama Fathers and Sons and the comedy Just a Kiss. Other film credits include House of Sand and Fog opposite Sir Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly, Deep Impact with Morgan Freeman and Robert Duvall and Mystery, Alaska opposite Russell Crowe. Eldard also appeared with Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, and Brad Pitt in Barry Levinson's Sleepers and in Bash: Latter Day Plays, by Neil Labute, opposite Paul Rudd and Calista Flockhart. He made his film debut starring in True Love opposite Annabella Sciorra.

Eldard's stage work includes the role of Willy Loman's son Biff in Death of a Salesman and Terry Malloy in the Broadway production of On the Waterfront. A former golden gloves boxer, Eldard also wrote the one-man show, Standing Eight Count.

Eldard has numerous television credits, including recurring roles on the drama ER and the comedy Men Behaving Badly.


Ron Eldard Facts

Birth NameRonald J. Eldard
OccupationActor
BirthdayFebruary 20, 1965 (44)
SignPisces
BirthplaceNew York, USA
Height5' 11" (1m80)

Selected Filmography

Black Hawk Down
Sleepers
Deep Impact
Scent of a Woman
When Trumpets Fade
Mystery, Alaska
House of Sand and Fog
Drop Dead Fred
Ghost Ship
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