Gene Hackman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gene Hackman

American actor and novelist

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: San Bernardino, California, United States

Profession: character actor, stage actor, novelist, racing automobile driver, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Hackman won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTAs. Nominated for five Academy Awards, Hackman won Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the critically acclaimed thriller The French Connection (1971), and Best Supporting Actor as "Little" Bill Daggett in the Clint Eastwood Western Unforgiven (1992).
His other nominations for Best Supporting Actor came with the films Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970), with a second Best Actor nomination for Mississippi Burning (1988). Hackman's other major film roles included The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Conversation (1974), French Connection II (1975), Superman: The Movie (1978) — as arch-villain Lex Luthor — Hoosiers (1986), The Firm (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001) and Welcome to Mooseport (2004).