Eric Bana

ACTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER

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Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family and was a hairdresser.Young Bana grew up in suburban Melbourne. He was popular among his schoolmates for his talent of making comic impressions of his teachers. At that time, he was fond of Mel Gibson in Mad Max (1979) and also decided to become an actor. He moved to Sydney and worked odd jobs to support himself. In 1991, he began a career as a stand-up comedian, while working as a barman at Melbourne's Castle Hotel. In 1993, Bana made his television debut on Steve Vizard's Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (1990) talk show, then joined the Full Frontal (1993) TV-series. He gained popularity for making impressions of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruse and "Columbo". In 1996, he started his own show titled Eric (1997), then launched a comedy series titled The Eric Bana Show Live (1997). The show was canceled for the lack of substantial audience. However, in 1997, Bana received the Logie Award for "Most Popular Comedian" for his work on The Eric Bana Show Live (1997).He made his film debut in My Home Is My Castle (1997), in a supporting comic role. That same year, he was cast to portray Mark "Chopper" Read, the notorious Australian underworld figure. For the role, Bana gained 30 pounds, by eating junk food; he also spent a few days with Read in prison, in order to perfect his mimicry. Bana completely transformed himself into a bald, plump, disturbed criminal. He would arrive on the film set at four in the morning, spending several hours in makeup, being tattooed exactly like Read. Chopper (2000) became an international success and won three Australian Film Institute Awards. Bana won the Best Actor at the 2000 Stockholm Film Festival and also the AFI 2000 Best Actor Award. Then he co-starred in Black Hawk Down (2001), then starred in Hulk (2003). In 2002, he was cast as the Trojan Prince Hector in the historical epic Troja (2004), after being recommended by Brad Pitt, who admired Bana for his work in Chopper (2000). In 2005, Bana co-starred with Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush in the political drama München (2005) directed by Steven Spielberg.In 1995, he began dating Rebecca Gleeson, a publicist and daughter of Australian High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson. The following year, he was named "Bachelor of the Year" by Cleo magazine, and won a trip for two to the United States. He invited Gleeson, and proposed to her during that romantic trip. In 1997, the two were married; their son, Klaus, was born in 1999, their daughter, Sophia, was born in 2002. He currently resides in Melbourne with his wife and their two children. Bana is a passionate supporter of Australian football. He was appointed Member of the Order of Australia at the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to the performing arts and to charitable organisations. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Eric Bana’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Eric Bana on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1993 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Eric Bana movies released per year from 2008 till 2021.

Top Genres

Eric Bana works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 27% of Eric Bana movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Eric Bana worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Eric Bana has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Eric Bana's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Animation,Comedy,Drama
Mary and Max (2009)

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

8.1/1092 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Action,Drama,History
Black Hawk Down (2001)

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

7.7/10144 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

7.6/1045 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Action,Drama,History
Munich (2005)

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

7.5/10164 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Documentary,Sport
Love the Beast (2009)

What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter, in the hope that you ...

7.4/1092 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Drama,History
Troy (2004)

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

7.3/10163 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.

7.2/1044 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage.

7.1/10107 min

Available in 10 platform(s).