Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is an American actor.\n', ' Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to England at age 13, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior year. He left high school without graduating, but earned a diploma through an adult education course, and graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in New York City as a struggling, unemployed actor.\n', ' As an undergraduate at BYU, Eckhart met director and writer Neil LaBute, who cast him in several of his own original plays. Five years later Eckhart made a debut as an unctuous, sociopathic ladies\' man in LaBute\'s black comedy film In the Company of Men (1997). Under LaBute\'s guidance he worked in the director\'s films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Nurse Betty (2000), and Possession (2002).\n', '