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Biography #2 (for Freedomland)

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.

Bio courtesy Sony Pictures Entertainment for "Freedomland" (19-Feb-2006)


Biography #3 (for Just a Kiss)

Since his impressive debut in Nancy Savoca's True Love, Ron Eldard has created a dazzling array of characters on film, stage, and television, and defied attempts to categorize him as leading man, character actor or comic. Recently, Eldard has been on a tremendous roll. He has taken lead roles in a number of high-profile films, including Ridley Scott's acclaimed war epic Black Hawk Down and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood directed by Callie Khouri. Also forthcoming for Eldard is the action thriller Ghost Ship directed by Steve Beck.

Eldard previously made a memorable appearance as the cop who puts an end to Al Pacino's driving spree in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman. He went on to star with Cameron Diaz and Courtney B. Vance in Stacy Title's black comedy The Last Supper; then he won a coveted role opposite Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt and Billy Crudup in Barry Levinson's Sleepers, delivering a chilling and ultimately moving portrayal of a damaged child who matures into a cold-blooded killer. Eldard followed this with a heroic role in the blockbuster, Deep Impact, then returned to comedy, starring opposite Russell Crowe as Skank, the small-town hockey team's bad boy in Mystery, Alaska.

On stage, Eldard recently gave a stand-out performance in Neil LaBute's disturbing triptych of monologues Bash, with Calista Flockhart and Paul Rudd, which played to sold out audiences in New York and Los Angeles, and also aired on Showtime in August 2000. Following Bash, Eldard went directly into the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Death of a Salesman, recreating the role of Willy Loman's (Brian Dennehy) son, the lost golden boy, Biff.

Eldard's stage work includes off-Broadway productions of Aven'U Boys and Servy'n'Bernice 4 Ever, and his one-man show, Standing Eight Count, which he performed at Naked Angels. He also played the classic role of Terry Malloy in the Broadway production of On The Waterfront.

On television, Eldard starred in a memorable arc opposite Julianna Margulies on ER, and went on to display his gift for comedy in the NBC half-hour series Men Behaving Badly. More recently, he starred opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh in Angelica Houston's critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, and drew raves for his performance as the lead in the HBO original movie When Trumpets Fade, directed by John Irvin.

Bio courtesy Paramount Classics for "Just a Kiss" (05-Oct-2002)