Eric Bana began his career as a comedian, number 1 coming to national attention within Australia a comedy sketch series Full Frontal. Late, he was a star and/or anchor for ii short-running off TV shows; a TV indicate Eric (1996), a sketch comedy indicate that he wrote, co-produced & starred around, & The Eric Bana Show Live (1997), a variety. His virtually all enduring character from either his early career is "Poida", the average Aussie male "bogan". Aside from either the little role in the Australian independent-hit The Castle in which he played a kickboxer, Bana disappeared from Australia's amusement screens for many years, just to produce the re-appearance in the gritty melanize comedy Chopper in 2000, about a notorious Australian underworld figure, Mark Brandon Read. Chopper garnered globe-wide attention, & won 3 Australian Film Institute awards, including a "Best Actor" award for Bana.

Fallowing this, his international reputation grew, & he played the supporting role within Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and took the name part around Ang Lee's 2003 movie Hulk He also played prince Hector in the epic Troy (2004), based on Homer's Iliad. Bana might next become seen inside Curtis Hanson's Lucky You, and wwhen reported as existence one of many actors at issue to play James Bond after Pierce Brosnan retires from a role. A a portion of James Attach would finally attend British actor Daniel Craig. Bana is as well starring inside Steven Spielberg's upcoming controversial film Munich. He has as well signed inside to star in Romulus, Our Father which poronotus triacanthus call at 2006.

Bana is married to Rebecca Gleeson, a previous publicizer using a Seven Network (the personal of the TV series "Full Frontal"). Together it have the boy, Klaus & a girl, Sophia. It presently reside inside Melbourne, Australia. Bana occurs as motor racing enthusiast and typically races inside his front yard united states.

Selected Filmography
Lucky You (2006) Munich (2005) Troy (2004) Hulk (2003) Black Hawk Down (2001) Chopper (2000) The Castle (1997)