Eric Bana He was born in 1968, in Melbourne, Australia.
His father, Ivan, was Croatian and worked as a logistics manager for Caterpillar Inc.His mother EleanorShe was German and worked as a hairdresser.
Demonstrating an innate theatrical ability, Bana began to imitate her family members at the age of six or seven, specifically imitating her grandfather. When you were a teenager you watched the movie “Mad Max“(1979) by Mel Gibson and he wanted to become an actor. However, he did not consider this career a prestigious profession.
Before he started his acting career, he worked for a time in a bar in his hometown, Melbourne, Australia.
There it was already beginning to be noticed what his true vocation was, when he took over the show of the place through some comic gags that he presented without any kind of difficulty.
Finally, he managed to debut as an actor, participating with small roles on Australian television in 1993, such as the series “Full Frontal“Then another series would come, called” Eric “, in which it would be part of several episodes and four years later his debut on the big screen would arrive, with the film”.The Castle“.
In 2000, he lent his voice to the animated film “Artic Adventure“, in which I play the role of Oz. Also that year, he would be the protagonist of “Chopper“, next to Simon Lyndon and it would be seen in the series “All saints“(1999-2000) and “Something in the air“(2000-2001).
Already in the new millennium, the year 2001 was a great success for him on the Australian scene, due to his personification of Mark Read, in the film “Portrait of a murderer” directed by Andrew Dominik. For this role he had to gain 15kg in weight.
After the presentation of the film in the Sundance Film Festival of that same year, Eric is awarded the award given by the Australian Film Critics Circle and with another by the Australian Film Institute.
One year later, Ridley scott, the famed British film director, offered him the role of Delta Squad Sergeant in the blockbuster war movie “Black Hawk Downed“, in which he shared the screen with Josh hartnett Y Ewan McGregor.
The following year, in 2002, he would star in a comedy called “The Nugget“, co-starring Stephen Curry and directed by Bill bennett.
With his recent jobs, his career took flight opening several doors for him. First of all, in 2003 he had the opportunity to lend his voice to one of the characters in the animated film “Finding Nemo“of the studies Walt disney Y Pixar. In it, I work with actors such as Ellen Degeneres Y Willem dafoe.
Second, time later he starred in the film adaptation that he made Ang lee, from the famous 70-80’s series, “Hulk“, next to Jennifer connelly Y Sam elliot.
He would finally finish catapulting himself to fame thanks to his portrayal of Hector in the film “Troy“, of Wolfgang Petersen next to Brad Pitt, Peter O`Toole Y Orlando BloomThe film was an international success, earning a total of 364 million dollars, despite the fact that in North America it was not the expected success, without reaching 133 million dollars.
In 2005, he would be seen in “Munich“, directed by Steven Spielberg and co-starring Geoffrey rush Y Daniel Craig.
Back in 2007, he was the main actor in “Lucky you“, from the hand of the actresses drew Barrymore Y Debra Messing and the actor Robert Duvall. It would also be part of the drama “Romulus my father“in that same year, together with Franka Potente.
Eric Bana subsequently shot “The Boleyn sisters“(2008) giving life to Henry VIII, next to Natalie Portman Y Scarlett Johansson. For this same year, it is expected to see him with the premiere of “The time Traveler`s wife“, next to Rachel McAdams.
At this moment he is in the middle of filming the continuation of Star trek preparing JJ Abrams (known as “Star Trek XI“), and in which he will play the villain known as Wildman. Also, in 2009 it will also be seen as part of “Funny people” next to Adam Sandler, and the following year, in “X Factor” next to Terrence howard.
Eric is married to Rebecca gleeson and has two children, Klaus Y Sophia.