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Kurt Russell
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Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres such as action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, comedic films, and family dramas. He is known for collaborating with filmmakers such as John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino, and has received a Critics' Choice Super Award as well as various award nominations, including for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

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Kurt Russell is an American film and television actor, film producer, and baseball player. Born Kurt Vogel Russell on March 17, 1951, in Springfield, he began his work period in 1961. He has worked in the Western film genre. Russell is a citizen of the United States and speaks English.

He has received the Disney Legends award and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His personal life includes a marriage to Season Hubley and a partnership with Goldie Hawn. He is the father of Wyatt Russell and the son of Bing Russell.

As an author, Russell has written three works, including *Dating Secrets for Men Who Want to Date Pretty Women but Can?t Get Started*, *From Poverty to Presidency*, and *Space Glass*.

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  • Dating Secrets for Men Who Want to Date Pretty Women but Can?t Get Started
  • From Poverty to Presidency
  • Space Glass

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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres such as action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, comedic films, and family dramas. He is known for collaborating with filmmakers such as John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino, and has received a Critics' Choice Super Award as well as various award nominations, including for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with the Walt Disney Company starring in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in the television film Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.

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