Eric Bana

Eric Bana is an Australian actor and comedian. He began his career in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biographical crime film Chopper . After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywoods attention for his performance in the war film Black Hawk Down and by playing the lead role as HulkBruce Banner in the Ang Leedirected Marvel Comics film Hulk with Jennifer Connelly. He has since played Hector in the movie Troy , the lead in Steven Spielbergs historical drama and political thriller Munich , Henry VIII in The Other Boleyn Girl , and the villain Nero in the sciencefiction film Star Trek, . In 2013, he played Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen in the war film Lone Survivor and in the following year he played police sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film Deliver Us from Evil.

Bana was born in Melbourne, Victoria. His father, Ivan, was Croatian and worked as a logistics manager for Caterpillar, Inc., and his mother Eleanor was a hairdresser, originally from near Mannheim in Germany. He has one older brother, Anthony. Bana grew up in Melbournes Tullamarine, a suburban area on the northern edge of the city, near Melbournes international airport, and attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. In a cover story for the Mail on Sunday, he told author Antonella GambottoBurke that his family had suffered from racist taunts, and that it had distressed him. Wog is such a terrible word, he said. He has stated I have always been proud of my origin, which had a big influence on my upbringing. I have always been in the company of people of European origin.

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