This big name for American cinema, which has won numerous awards and had a Hollywood career over six decades, celebrates its 95th anniversary on January 30, 2025.
There are few Hollywood actors and actresses that can boast of having had a successful career over six decades. Like Clint Eastwood which has celebrated its anniversary recently, another regularly rewarded celebrity celebrates its 95th birthday on January 30, 2025. And it can boast of having shone in many films until her retirement, taken in 2004 .
This actor notably won two Oscars, four Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Bafta. In his filmography, we find cult works, like French connection, merciless, secret conversations, Mississippi Burning, Superman Or The Tenenbaum family. This iconic actor is obviously Gene Hackman.
Born Eugene Allen Hackman, Gene Hackman began her career on Broadway and television. He will wait until 1967 before winning his first big role, in the film Bonnie and Clyde D’Arthur Penn, where he replies to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. His career on the big screen is then launched, since he is appointed to the Oscars, without winning the statuette.
However, it was not until 1971 that its name was cited in Hollywood ceremonies. He won the Oscar for best actor the following year for his role in French Connection by William Friedkin, who will also earn him a Bafta and a Golden Globe. He plays a police officer who investigates Brooklyn on drug trafficking.
It will not be the only golden statuette that the American actor will win, since he will be rewarded in 1993 of the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for Ruthlesswhere he also gives the reply to Clint Eastwood. His score will also allow him to win a Golden Globe and a Bafta. The Tenenbaum family de Wes Anderson will also allow him to win a Golden Globe.
Since 2004, Gene Hackman has ended her film career. It is in the literature that he is now flourishing, since he wrote not months of five novels, three of which were co-written with Daniel Lenihan, submarine archaeologist. His latest work was published in 2013.